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+<br>The Oxford dictionary says a layman is a ‘non-professional, non-expert’ with no must live up to requirements. 1. My expertise with dead standing trees began not less than eighty years in the past, climbing them as a boy. Duncan prefers to call managed dead standing bushes snags and dislikes the term monoliths. However, Philip Wilson in ‘my bible’, The A-Z of Tree Terms, defines snags as stubs, and non-arboricultural and non-forestry dictionaries have included several other meanings for the word, even ‘debris snagged up in flowing water’ and ‘clothing torn or snagged up on thorns or barbed wire etc.’ Therefore, while I agree our common language is filled with words that have several typically completely totally different meanings, absolutely here is a case where in tree phrases - and just about confined to arboricultural use - a dead standing tree could be described using a significantly better term than snag. Philip Wilson’s A-Z defines a monolith as ‘a tree decreased to its primary stem’ and in his definition it might still be alive.<br>
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+<br>English dictionaries outline a monolith as ‘a single block of stone, particularly formed like a pillar or  [Wood Ranger official](https://git.anibilag.ru/hbveunice90722) monument, a large block of concrete or thing like a monolith being huge, immoveable or solid uniform.’ Mono clearly means single and lith is stone. Surely all we must do is find a easy descriptive time period that may solely consult with a managed useless standing tree? Let’s hope the concepts that observe inspire some thoughts from arbs. This kind of tree management belongs to the arb world and the arb world should declare professional ownership by discovering the appropriate time period for it. As lith means stone, why not call a useless standing tree a mono-stub or mono-stump? Mono-trunk or mono-candle (French is chandele) are additionally options. Mike Ellison has advised mono-ligna, mono-lignum, mono-lig or mono-stack. 2. Oak root plate with what remained of the supporting root system after the tree had been standing useless for maybe a number of many years.<br>
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+<br>3. William the Conqueror’s Oak at Windsor, maybe one thousand years outdated. How on earth are you able to call this part of our nation’s historical past a snag? 4. Ancient useless elm monolith. My guess is the occupants of the house who determined to go away this tree standing had been very attention-grabbing folks, considering the security paranoia and mindless obsession with tidiness that prevail in the 21st century. Bring on the younger generations! 5. Dead standing oaks where Roy Finch did plunge cuts in limbs and Bill Cathcart’s crew at Windsor  [Wood Ranger Power Shears](http://pasarinko.zeroweb.kr/bbs/board.php?bo_table=notice&wr_id=7393855) then winched the limbs off to depart monoliths with moderately pure-looking damaged stub ends. My experience with dead standing timber started at the least 80 years ago once i climbed into the lifeless hollow standing oak in picture 1 and collected either a barn or a tawny owl’s egg. In these days, all small boys residing in the countryside collected birds’ eggs. The tree remains to be there today, and clearly the surrounding bushes at the moment are of a substantial measurement and possibly more and more offer it some safety.<br>
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