This is on the sweet tree-lined singletrack that runs up from Troutbeck church and comes out near Robin Lane. Most of the trees on the north side have been felled, and some of the surface filled in with gravel 🙁 I noticed a new hut has been built in the field beside, but for the life of me I can't see why the trees were chopped down.
Oh dear 🙁 I love that bit 🙁
There was a death from a falling tree branch a year or so ago. Think it was on Nat Trust land and a school kid on a field trip was killed while sat under a tree.
Since then all the councils/landowners seem to have massivly increased tree felling adjacent to ROW and roads. Round Ladybower/Houndkirk/Sheffield parks there has been months of tree felling/cutting back. Even on quite health looking trees.
Guess it's been flagged as a H&S risk by some jobsworth.
Guess it's been flagged as a H&S risk by some jobsworth.
but about 30 trees have been cut on one side of the trail, leaving all the trees on the other side (2 metres away) intact. If the above were true wouldn't this mean all forest trails would have to be clearfelled for the height of the trees on either side ?
"a school kid on a field trip was killed while sat under a tree"
That's tragic
"but about 30 trees have been cut on one side of the trail"
But that's vandalism
Perhaps it was harvesting of a locl resource. Maybe thats why they were planted in the first place, after all the area is a work place that some people use to make a living not just a place of recreation.
Perhaps it was harvesting of a locl resource. Maybe thats why they were planted in the first place, after all the area is a work place that some people use to make a living not just a place of recreation.
But I always thought that the Lakes was just Disneyland for the weekend warrior? 🙁
It does seem a shame though, but then, it ain't there for us alone.
Perhaps it was harvesting of a locl resource.
this was a sweet leafy path from the hamlet to the church, not some commercial forestry 🙁
chestnut trees (especialy) shed branches for no apparent reason. Perfectly healthy trees that have stood for hundreds of years will drop a perfectly healthy looking (even to an expert) leaf covered branch, even if theres no wind!
What anoys me is the shear number of families who ignore the roped off bit arround old trees and the signs saying "for your own safety.......". Do they think it there for someone else?
Perfectly healthy trees that have stood for hundreds of years will drop a perfectly healthy looking (even to an expert) leaf covered branch
best stay indoors then ?
no, but is someone's said that they could be a problem they'd be bonkers to leave them up there!
Can you imagine the courtroom if it went wrong and someone was killed/injured:
"so you were advised that the branches may be about to fall down but did nothign about it"
"yes thats right, some mountainbiker on a forum would have winged"
Simon - is it not possible the trees belong to someone who cropped them? It doesn't have to be commercial forestry in the usual sense for the landowner to consider the trees as a cash crop.
Simon - is it not possible the trees belong to someone who cropped them?
that doesn't stop it being vandalism. Isn't property theft ?
someone's said that they could be a problem they'd be bonkers to leave them up there!
none of them were chestnuts, and half the trees are still there...
This is the track:
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Are that track, those track are never long enough. I think you'll find that the trees may formerly have been a hedge. Perhaps the owner has a plans to return it to a hedge. You never know.
Going by that pic, they are as mt suggests, former hedgerow trees. Too big to lay now so coppice and restart, overhanging the field (tractor cab clearance, shading) or about to replace the fence and they're in the way/ likely to fail on new fence
timber - Member
Going by your name I'll take thats sorted.
Get a chain saw and rebuild it 🙂