OK, so who carved this at Oxwich bay?

[mountainm]

On hols at the Gower, found this freshly carved.

Chances are someone on here is the culprit?

M

 

[Stew]

Is that a live tree?

 

[mountainm]

Is that a live tree?

Unfortunately yes.

 

[Mesquite]

Chances are someone on here is the culprit?

If they are I seriously doubt they'll be brave enough to own up to doing it

 

[THOaken]

The culprit needs a good whack on his rhytidome.

Sorry that was just bad.

 

[Goatboy]

I'm Spartacus!









Well actually no I'm not. But as a side note one of the ranger services up here has carved a series of "fairy houses" into live trees. It's to attract people into the forest and to get them to interact with the woodland. Playing Devils advocate but it's not doing a huge amount of damage. Everybody used to oh and ah with joy when veiwing the old coins hammered into the tree trunks on the cemetry island up here. Some fairy trees have died through so many things being tied to them.
Sorry maybe I'm slightly inured to it as an ex forester and personaly I wouldn't do this to a live tree. Heck I even set my bonsai tree free as I didn't want to torture the thing and I used to say sorry to every tree I cut.
Sorry rambling here not sure how I feel about it. Not my thing and pointless damage is silly. But we harvest wood, killing trees all the time for firewood and carving projects.
Sent via smoke-signal from a woodland in Scotland.

 

[crosslandkelly]

At least it's not ring barked, it may heal. Is it a Sycamore?

 

[petrochemicals]

Is that by the moot? And if so, am I right in thinking you teach hunting there too? There are probably wounded rabbits walking around.

The wood does not seem like it needs thinning, some of the F.C. sites you could chop all afternoon and still leave it over populated, a hell of a lot of saplings do not make it.

 

[Stew]

I its not their tree I'm not cool with that. I've seen carvings done in live trees but they were by the owner or allowed by the owner.

 

[Macaroon]

I'd be interested to know why the OP assumes that this was done by a member here? Is there a reason for the assumption that I'm missing?

 

[crosslandkelly]

Is that by the moot? And if so, am I right in thinking you teach hunting there too? There are probably wounded rabbits walking around.

The wood does not seem like it needs thinning, some of the F.C. sites you could chop all afternoon and still leave it over populated, a hell of a lot of saplings do not make it.

Oxwich bay is nearly 40 miles away from the Moot. Hunting is not taught at the Moot, but a few traps and snares are explained, along with the legalities of their use.

 

[Goatboy]

I think some folk are taking the tounge in cheek comments seriously. Some folk are just having a bit of fun.

Sent via smoke-signal from a woodland in Scotland.

 

[mountainm]

I'd be interested to know why the OP assumes that this was done by a member here? Is there a reason for the assumption that I'm missing?

No reason other than a big assumption on my part...

 

[Macaroon]

Ah, OK...........Just thought I'd missed something there; happens more often than I'd like these days

 

[crosslandkelly]

No reason other than a big assumption on my part...

Huge assumption on your part there MM, Hang them high, if they kick they must be guilty eh!

 

[crosslandkelly]

I think some folk are taking the tounge in cheek comments seriously. Some folk are just having a bit of fun.

Sent via smoke-signal from a woodland in Scotland.

I see no tounge in cheek here, I see a stab at the community.

 

[mountainm]

I see no tounge in cheek here, I see a stab at the community.

Good grief. Read the OP. The original post was about the carving. I never even hinted it was inappropriate until questioned.

 

[Macaroon]

I didn't get any hint of "tongue in cheek" either, I must say, hence my question earlier in the thread.

 

[mountainm]

Blimey you lot are a bunch of delicate flowers this week.

It's a carving of a woodspirit that made me smile. It may also be an act of vandalism, but that wasn't the point ...

Good grief

 

[woodspirits]

to put it into context and give it some scale any idea of diameter MM?