No Sycamore Gap anymore

[Ashaman42]

When the moon hits your knees and you mispronounce trees...

Sycamore.

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[GdS]

One of my boys (who works in forestry in Knoydart) commented

"pretty good felling cut for a 16 year old, undercut the hinge slightly"

I also thought it was a neat job.  Not the work of someone who's never done it before.

Anyway, possible solutions, after dealing with the perpetrators:

1. Transplant the biggest sycamore you can move
2. NT sell artefacts made from the wood of the original.  It'll work.

And hang the little shit from it.  NT could have the rope after he's rotted and fallen off.

another inappropriate comment, since when was hanging allowed in the UK? This is a publicly viewable board BTW

[alfapete]

When the moon hits your knees and you mispronounce trees...

Sycamore.

Where's the 'Like' button?

[Peter]

Dino for the win!

[Auntie Helen]

One of my boys (who works in forestry in Knoydart) commented

"pretty good felling cut for a 16 year old, undercut the hinge slightly"

I also thought it was a neat job.  Not the work of someone who's never done it before.

Anyway, possible solutions, after dealing with the perpetrators:

1. Transplant the biggest sycamore you can move
2. NT sell artefacts made from the wood of the original.  It'll work.

And hang the little shit from it.  NT could have the rope after he's rotted and fallen off.

another inappropriate comment, since when was hanging allowed in the UK? This is a publicly viewable board BTW

T42 is on the continent.

[andyoxon]

Nasty mindless vandalism. Even though one single tree.

In 2022 alone apparently 10500 km² of prime Amazon rainforest, with all the associated biodiversity, was destroyed.

But that wasn't mindless; we ate it in the form of burgers.

Amazon / tropical deforestation is not mindless, no.  Cowmageddon.

[mrcharly-YHT]

One of my boys (who works in forestry in Knoydart) commented

"pretty good felling cut for a 16 year old, undercut the hinge slightly"

I also thought it was a neat job.  Not the work of someone who's never done it before.

Anyway, possible solutions, after dealing with the perpetrators:

1. Transplant the biggest sycamore you can move
2. NT sell artefacts made from the wood of the original.  It'll work.

And hang the little shit from it.  NT could have the rope after he's rotted and fallen off.

another inappropriate comment, since when was hanging allowed in the UK? This is a publicly viewable board BTW

T42 is on the continent.

True
So, very inappropriate.

Guillotine would be the appropriate tool, surely?

[Mr Larrington]

One of my boys (who works in forestry in Knoydart) commented

"pretty good felling cut for a 16 year old, undercut the hinge slightly"

I also thought it was a neat job.  Not the work of someone who's never done it before.

Anyway, possible solutions, after dealing with the perpetrators:

1. Transplant the biggest sycamore you can move
2. NT sell artefacts made from the wood of the original.  It'll work.

And hang the little shit from it.  NT could have the rope after he's rotted and fallen off.

another inappropriate comment, since when was hanging allowed in the UK? This is a publicly viewable board BTW

T42 is on the continent.

True
So, very inappropriate.

Guillotine would be the appropriate tool, surely?

Or a herring: https://youtu.be/TQQ32lEqCS0

[T42]

One of my boys (who works in forestry in Knoydart) commented

"pretty good felling cut for a 16 year old, undercut the hinge slightly"

I also thought it was a neat job.  Not the work of someone who's never done it before.

Anyway, possible solutions, after dealing with the perpetrators:

1. Transplant the biggest sycamore you can move
2. NT sell artefacts made from the wood of the original.  It'll work.

And hang the little shit from it.  NT could have the rope after he's rotted and fallen off.

another inappropriate comment, since when was hanging allowed in the UK? This is a publicly viewable board BTW

If what I wrote offends anyone I'll be delighted.

[Polar Bear]

I'm just pleased to have some company on the naughty stump...  🤔

[mrcharly-YHT]

I'm just pleased to have some company on the naughty stump...  🤔

Is that an executioner's stump?

[Polar Bear]

Or perhaps a politician's stump given the nature of my comment.

[Asterix, the former Gaul.]

One of my boys (who works in forestry in Knoydart) commented

"pretty good felling cut for a 16 year old, undercut the hinge slightly"

I also thought it was a neat job.  Not the work of someone who's never done it before.

Anyway, possible solutions, after dealing with the perpetrators:

1. Transplant the biggest sycamore you can move
2. NT sell artefacts made from the wood of the original.  It'll work.

And hang the little shit from it.  NT could have the rope after he's rotted and fallen off.

another inappropriate comment, since when was hanging allowed in the UK? This is a publicly viewable board BTW

T42 is on the continent.

True
So, very inappropriate.

Guillotine would be the appropriate tool, surely?

Bring back the birch!

[GdS]

instead of indulging in "safety in numbers" to justify your "humerous" posts why don't you (as grown adults) look at what you are posting to the whole world on this cycling forum before you hit send?

I also think it's a tragic incident and no idea what his motives were, let's wait for the outcome?

[Mr Larrington]

Sycamore Gap: man, 60, arrested in connection with felled tree.  The plot thickens (and the Reëducation Camps beckon).

[ian]

I am pleased that I have had the opportunity to see the sycamore in situ and livid as hell with the utter fuckheads who decided to cut it down.

I'd be tempted to take a chainsaw to their trunks if the opportunity arose.

Utter bastards.

Completely unacceptable post, have reported to Mod 

1. PB has been called out on it in this thread.
2. I don't think anyone else believed he was serious.

Pretty radical reporting him to the Ministry of Defence though.

[Jaded]

It is maybe a metaphor. Lovely piccies of a tree show how much we care for the environment!

[IanDG]

Sycamore Gap: man, 60, arrested in connection with felled tree.  The plot thickens (and the Reëducation Camps beckon).

2 arrested now, 1 more and they'll have the tree fellers they're looking for. 

IGMC

[Wowbagger]

It is maybe a metaphor. Lovely piccies of a tree show how much we care for the environment!

Some of us...

[Canardly]

Sycamore Gap: man, 60, arrested in connection with felled tree.  The plot thickens (and the Reëducation Camps beckon).

2 arrested now, 1 more and they'll have the tree fellers they're looking for. 

IGMC

That goes against the grain.

[Jurek]

Sycamore Gap: man, 60, arrested in connection with felled tree.  The plot thickens (and the Reëducation Camps beckon).

2 arrested now, 1 more and they'll have the tree fellers they're looking for. 

IGMC

That goes against the grain.

All leave's been cancelled in Special Branch while they get to the root of who did this.

[Wowbagger]

Sadly, “Tree Feller” is a profanity in Saarfend: it is the name of the council’s preferred environmental vandal.

[Asterix, the former Gaul.]

By a strange coincidence I took this picture the day before the incident.



It is a view of a tree at sunset, taken from my hotel window near the City of Bath.  I am pleased to say the tree was still there in the morning.

[quixoticgeek]

Having studied Arboriculture, one possibility is that the tree will sprout new shoots, just as if it had been coppiced.

The main risk however is that the top is horizontal, meaning that rain will pool on it causing rot. Someone is going to have to put a slope on the top to allow rain to run off. Then there is just the hope the tree has enough energy stored in it's root system to be able to put up new shoots in the spring, and that any animals are kept away so that the sprouts can do something useful.

With some management, this tree can regrow. It may never be the perfect "tree shape" we once had. But it may not be totally dead.

J

[Cudzoziemiec]

By a strange coincidence I took this picture the day before the incident.



It is a view of a tree at sunset, taken from my hotel window near the City of Bath.  I am pleased to say the tree was still there in the morning.

Are you trying to establish an alias?