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Jethro_uk wrote:
On Mon, 22 Apr 2019 12:52:18 +0100, charles wrote:

In article ,
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On Sunday, 21 April 2019 09:33:32 UTC+1, mm0fmf wrote:
I visited the roof space on Lincoln Cathedral a few years. The tour
cost £3 and was possibly the best £3 ever spent. Similar general age
to Notre Dame again with a wooden framed roof made from huge oak
beams. To ensure they have suitable beams for renovation work, they
have unused beams ageing in the roof space ready. They've been buying
them whenever they had money and such wood was available. Of course a
fire in the roof space would destroy their own spares too.

Apparently an Oxford college was looking round for some replacement oak
beams when it discovered it owned a small woodland somewhere and there
were some 500-year-old trees that had been planted when the college was
built, for that purpose.

That's planning ahead.

At Balmoral, a few years ago, a new wood was planted and the factor
(land agent) said harvesting would happen in about 500 year's time.

Assuming it's been pollarded (?) and attended to correctly ???

pollarding oaks? I don't think so.

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