Hadrian’s wall tree felled

[mudman]

Happens a lot on potential development sites but never heard of such a high profile tree going this way

Sycamore Gap tree at Hadrian's Wall 'felled overnight'

The Northumbria police commissioner said she was "incandescent" that it looked like vandalism.

www.bbc.com

 

[VSS]

Why would anyone do that?

 

[arron]

Disgusting and sad that some knob has done that

 

[mudman]

Why would anyone do that?

I would think someone resents the amount of visitors it draws to the area. Someone who has their life inconvenienced in some large or small way. Also someone of course who know the chances of getting caught are minimal

 

[Bo Diddley]

Absolutely moronic act... it was windy last night so it masked the sound of the chainsaw I would suspect, well planned for some sad little scroat, they need flogging, or at least put in the stocks for a weekend so they can be pelted with whatever takes your fancy...

 

[Lancaster]

I have driven past that tree on the nearby road probably thousands of times and umpteen times walked to it or past it, I am absolutely disgusted that some mindless ****wit would cut down such an Iconic symbol of the Wall and Northumberland.
Why the bloody hell would someone do it........

 

[Klenchblaize]

Probably some “Bushcrafter” up from the smoke who just had to try out their latest must-have bit of kit as acquired from the Heinnie Haynes | Best Knives, Everyday Carry & Survival Gear catalogue.

K

 

[Lancaster]

I would think someone resents the amount of visitors it draws to the area. Someone who has their life inconvenienced in some large or small way. Also someone of course who know the chances of getting caught are minimal

So what next, Bulldoze Caulfields, fill in Housesteads, set fire to the Sill Centre.
Mindless, pointless vandalism by some small minded individual who should have their testicles removed with a blunt spoon.....

 

[Gunner223]

Cleared I bet by the council on some Health and safety bo,,ocks

 

[User00053]

Will be some method to doing it in someones mind no doubt and all may be revealed in time maybe, bit weird otherwise
Interesting the national trust are involved in the light of recent channel 4 programme on hunting, would not be surprised if someone trying to cause trouble in some way or other.

 

[Klenchblaize]

It will never replace it but I would commission a very large statement-like piece of steel artwork to fill the gap.

K

 

[Lancaster]

It will never replace it but I would commission a very large statement-like piece of steel artwork to fill the gap.

K

What a brilliant idea, that dip in the wall needs something to fill it....

 

[VSS]

What a brilliant idea, that dip in the wall needs something to fill it....

That tree will regrow from the stump pretty quickly. Sycamore always does. Admittedly it will be multi-stemmed, so not as shapely as the one that was cut down, but it'll fill the gap alright. Provided that no-one has the clever idea of grubbing out the stump, and provided that livestock are kept away from it until well established.

 

[User00053]

Perhaps a mounted huntsman jumping wall the national trust would love it.

 

[Craigsaun]

Sad ! Very sad, what the hell is wrong with people

 

[Klenchblaize]

What a brilliant idea, that dip in the wall needs something to fill it....

It of course goes without saying that it must not be a bronze of Mel Gibson.

K

 

[Donkey Basher]

“Dunno guv, it must’ve blown over in all that wind last night!”

Or, for the conspiracy theorists, it’s part of the enabling works in the first phase of Hamster Useless’ plan to build a bigger higher wall to stop the English sending raiding parties over the border to get the whisky once he’s declared Scotland a free country!

Joking aside, what sort of ****er does something like that - they clearly know how to use a saw so it’s no chancer doing it on a whim!

 

[Jon P]

Any beavers in area?
Seriously though - why would anyone want to do that ?? Crazy.

 

[enfieldspares]

Maybe a solar powered, with battery storage for after dusk and clouded days, machine playing this 24/7/365? And a small cage in which past recent Home Secretaries beyond hope of expiation, redemption or expurgation can be confined until even further madness sets in? Maybe for a start that Patel creature or the Braverman thing?

 

[artschool]

if you were going to just cut it down why would you mark the cut line with white spray paint?