Sycamore Gap tree expected to grow new shoots but it ‘won’t be same again’ say experts
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- A tree expert hopes that the beloved Sycamore Gap could be saved but says will take decades to regrow to its former glory.
The tree, made famous when it appeared in Kevin Costner's 1991 film Robin Hood: Prince Of Thieves, had stood in a dramatic dip near to Hadrian's Wall in Northumberland for more than 300 years, reports the Daily Mirror.
Northumbria Police launched a probe on Thursday, September 29, after it was deliberately felled overnight with a chainsaw, saying they were treating it as an act of vandalism. A 16-year-old has since been arrested and is currently in police custody.
National Trust general manager Andrew Poad told BBC Breakfast the stump was “healthy” and staff might be able to coppice the tree, a technique allowing new shoots to grow from the base of a trunk.
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I can't believe that a 16 year old boy organised all the logistics to travel to this remote location with all the necessary equipment and then had the skill and determination to do this. I think there must be far more to this story than what we have been told.
One chainsaw.
@@snowflakemelter1172
Now a 60 year old man has also been arrested, the plot thickens !
Local fued grudge .
but sometimes a cigar just a cigar
@@judasthepious1499 indeed.
No way a 16 year old cut that down, unless he works as an arborist. Cut technique shows it was a professional. Depth of scarf or face cut, consistency of hinge wood. More close up photos will show size of bar on the saw too.
Exactly what I thought, the cut was neat and by the book from what I could see...
Agree no fing young one has done that it's an act of a adult with exspriance. Xx
balls. tree wasn't even cut at an angle. someone walked upto that with a petrol chainsaw and tried to cut a straight line, then went to the other side and probably gave up and fell in a ditch drunk somewhere. the wind took care of the rest.
@@boxlabshow to say you know nothing about tree felling without actually saying it……🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️
@@Bob10009 the tree has clearly been cut without care. it would have fell in any direction
I do a lot of chainsaw work and can categorically say that although this is an utterly hateful act, it is also not something people could just pop to the shops, buy a chainsaw and execute neatly and easily. So the person that did it had quite a bit of treework skill. So what was their motive !!!!!!
Put it on cv for the next job
There's alot of forestry in Northumberland and a lot of skilled chainsaw users
sounds a bit dumb considering a 16 year old with no horticultural experience took a chainsaw and cut it down
lol yeaaa that didnt happen. look at those nonces wearing masks ! and especially there hahaha@@Unreality_3D
Who cares? String em by their toes to the tree for the next 200yrs
I’ve found it really interesting how the British public have reacted to the loss of this single tree with such a huge outpouring sense of grief, sorrow and anger - yet the same feelings aren’t conveyed as we continue to lose whole tracts of ancient and irreplaceable native woodland up and down the country. It seems that people are more devastated at the loss of picturesque scene rather than the loss of the tree and the life it sustained.
Well said
I was looking for the twat and I found him 🤓
We're is this happening ? I live in Northumberland and we have mile after mile of ancient woodland .And the Great North forest means planting a million trees a year
Or the loss of native English communities themselves
Not true in my case ( and I suspect a lot of other people too). This act of vandalism against an ancient tree which is so familiar to so many people in this country and around the world ,
is symbolic of exactly what you state ~ the wanton destruction of precious nature that once gone is lost forever.
What gets me every time a crime is committed at a certain age, they say 'cant be named, due to their age' - B S if they're so big & full of themselves to do it, they should pay the consequences & be named & shamed, same goes for the 💩 that stabbed the schoolgirl yesterday too
100% agree with this.
Couldn't give a monkeys who he is, am just saying, they should be shamed & have to live with it
The stabber would have been named if he was white, and a picture of his parents outside their home.
just be honest and say that it was a black kid. not some 16yr old
@@hardlines2635 Where did you get your law degree? Clown school? 🤡🤡
I always hear that things are getting worse in this country, can't be the case, people have always thought that. Then you consider this has stood for 300 odd years and no plonk has cut it down or damaged it, but now they have, so maybe that's right that things are that bad at the moment. I hope maximum possible punishment is thrown at this tool.
I think that 300 years ago, and at every time in history people have done horrendous things. Nothing new about anti social destruction.
And won't some Narcissistic scumbag cut it down again?
Of course things are getting worse as the Bible prophesied...There's never been a more impure age than the one we're living in right now
Don't blame the chainsaw!...😂
Stop crying... You`re too funny. *The Brits spent the last 500 years desacrating other countries or their cultural sites, temples, monuments, landscapes, golden carvings, paintings, architecture, pottery, worship sites, sculptures, waters, rivers, historic sites, tombs, forrestes, plantations...* but you`re complaining about a silly little tree cut down by a stupid little 16 year old lad. 😆😅🤣😂
🌲 I work in a tree nursery. Did you know that if a tree has a disease, the next spring it'll send its seeds🫒 further away from itself🍃🌳 so the next generation doesn't get into contact with the same disease. 🍂
Also, if a another tree lacks nutrients , other trees connected to the root network, start focusing more resources towards that area of the root network where the tree in need is.
Fascinating how somehow, the tree "knows" to sacrifice itself for the sake of the group/species/next gen. .
Something that us humans forget more and more how to do. Reflection being in acts like this..and in the carelessness we imbedded in our lifes..
THANK YOU FOR SHARING THAT.
I REMEMBER WATCHING A NATURE PROGRAM IN THE 80’S I THINK WHERE THEY RECORDED THE SOUNDS EMITTED FROM PLANTS & TREES WHEN THEY WERE DAMAGED, OR PICKED, I THINK IT WAS SHOWING THAT THEY ACTUALLY RESPONDED TO PAIN.
PRINCE CHARLES WAS INVOLVED ALSO.
Ukrainians are sacrificing themselves right now!
My grandmother couldn't get a policeman out when she got burgled, shame she wasn't a tree
@@Mac-qi5nzblame the police
I have no clue if that is fact or not but that is truly amazing I’m going to have to look that up 👊
Sad, but massive wider context and awareness needed. Please Google how many woodlands will be lost to HS2 to save 30 minutes from a train journey between Birmingham and London.
I doubt HS2 will ever be built
HS2 was supposed to be bigger than just London to Birmingham, but project mismanagement made it so much more expensive than it needed to be, and penny pinching has cut the potential so much that it's useless.
Though they did try to make more sections tunnels to avoid as much impact on the view and cut down on noise, but that caused more delay and added to the cost.
That tree was almost as part of the history of this country as the Hadrian Wall. It's not like that was felled to build something there, for firewood, or for profit. This was vandalism, IMO done to upset the people who value the UK countryside and scenery
Experts say it 'won't be the same again'. What an astute observation. I just assumed it would grow back tomorrow and be identical to how it was.
Who are the experts lol
I'm sitting here reading you're comment and pissing myself laughing 10 out of 10 on how funny that is
@@alandixon7948your*
@@joeyskip89SPECIAL BRANCH?🤣
what would we do without 'experts'
Big saw, neat wedge cut of the right size, neat, intact hinge, perfectly level fell cut, tree felled in the right direction for a side weighted tree and all done in the middle of the night. The guy had training and experience of tree felling…….at 16.
as a person who has experience of taking down trees, looking at the news footage this cut looks like it's been done by someone who knows what they are doing..
this is a pro fell.
the cut is clean and symmetrical with a perfect hinge.
I doubt very much a 16yr old would be capable of this unless brought up using a chainsaw.
Agreed. It is not perfect but it is a clean and efficiently executed job. Particularly when you consider it was supposedly done at night.
Also the stem looks to be about a meter in diameter and the back cut looks like it was done in one slice, necessitating a large saw. A heavy saw for a 16 year old to handle. Who, judging by age alone, could not have had much experience.
All a bit odd
Does it matter now?
@@eugeneswartz8779yES it matters if this person is in adult court
@@eugeneswartz8779 Only in that, at the time, the suspect didn't seem to fit the crime.
Our Town Council chopped down an Avenue of trees leading to a Natural Parkland on a once privately owned estate - all because of developers - all they saw was the darkness (like a Harry Potter Grotto) of sweeping branches right down to the ground and they wanted 'light' and to build on land 'over the wall'. They didn't see the YEARS that young children had stopped to watch the squirrels collecting nuts and swinging around in the branches - you never felt the area was creepy or threatening but needless to say the locals didn't get a say in the matter! It would take 100 years to establish trees like that again - but they won't get the chance because the developers offered £500 a time for substitute sapling replacements which 20 years on haven't grown an inch (and some have perished). Evil.
Felled on a full harvest moon … feel like this symbolises something 😢 … why on earth would anyone do such a thing ! This makes me sad 😞 Also it was on the same day and month that the white stag was killed in bootle … strange times
Two outrages. 😢
And could all you trolls please stop saying "its just a tree"..... Because actually no it isnt.... It was a beacon of love and sorrow, it meant everything to hubdres of people if not thousands.... People have scattered there loved ones ashes under that tree, people have proposed under that tree, for some it brings back memories of joyful times, fun and laughter, for others its a reminder of loved ones they have lost and shared amazing things with..... Have a fucking heart... It snot just a tree to thise people.
Trees are very important to some people's spiritual beliefs 😢
To be far I only know that tree from robin hood
Yeah it is still just a tree bro.
I'm English and I don't care about this, I even studied country management and I don't care about this
is tree, end of.
Any other tree can take its place and be just as worshipped crazily as this one was to you
@Stokie_Lad22
Well said. My extended Clan are saddened and angry!
I'm so angry about this scumbags actions it's off the scale, it's not just a beautiful tree he's destroyed but a part of England's heritage that will never be replaced 😢
There once was a tree in a beautiful place, it stood there for years with pose and grace, enjoyed by thousands around the world until one night it was cruelly felled. The person that done this is despicable, only a harsh sentence is applicable! The tree is gone but not forgotton, the person who done this is truly rotton. Goodbye old tree we loved you dearly the gap you leave brings only misery.
Thanks ChatGPT for your beautiful poem.
If it’s gone,the bad future timeline has already begun..
The cut face left on stump is almost a perfect professional cut !! Seems very good for a 16 year old 🤔
I think ANY professional would have cut a v into the trunk to direct it's fall,this was no pro it was a fucking muppet that needs flogging in public
Thats what I though also and I do loads of tree work.
I know right? Am I the only one to think this was made by a team of experts, on the payroll of some millionaire weirdo?
More likely locals not wanting the tourists anymore,no tree no tourist,maybe ? No way a 16 year old did that cut ,and it would of had to of been a big saw also not the usually a young lad would get his hands on ,very suspicious I am lol
@@user-ni2sb7im6c whatever happened it's a crying shame,that thing was 300yrs old and in 10mins it was removed from the north east of England, what a sad world we live in today.
I do hope the horrible little scumbag has to pay all costs..... on top of a fine.... on top of a prison sentence!!!
They need to plant a thousand trees as punishment
@@melcragg7814yes, and get the little turd to do all the planting and pay for the saplings.
@@melcragg7814 Definitely. Great idea
I was going to say grow birch, but you can anticipate where i was going with that. Plus I'm not encouraging those making comments that think it's funny
I'd go beyond a sentence - I think public stocks need to come back where we the guilty will hear and feel the publics disgust in full. This person needs to be severely punished for this harm to nature. I am furious!
For a tree?! Hahahahaha
Breaks my heart 💔💘
Not only for this Tree 🎄Any Trees!
Those people don't think about the earth, I hate them 😡
🤣🤣🤡
Time for science to get involved and somehow re-attach the tree back together then fuse the internals of the trunk together
Large internal dowel ? Would it re-knit and bond ?
totally what i was thinking take one off the tree and place it in the stump
I don't think the boy that cut this tree down truly knows what he's done. But it's going to be very expensive, as in an unlimited fine and prison sentence. Or they can give him the ultimate fine of £1.5 million, which is £5000 for every year its been there. Tree law is no joke
It’s a tree sort your head out £1.5m nothing of historical note about the actual tree itself other than it was featured in a film lol and it’s next to a historical wall
This was done at night with a chainsaw. This was premeditated tree murder.
He's 16. Probably won't even be named, never mind sentenced to anything.
Knows what he done fine rightly just another scumbag doing things as a joke!
Kid was 16 we're he getting £1.5m 😂 most likely he will get a slap on the hand or hit with community service for a few months
He will get a slap on the wrists and told not to do it again let’s be real this country has no back bone anymore to do anything about it this should be prison time atleast
The highest cost will be his whole families fall from grace and respect……. his life will forever be blighted.
A man in his 60s has been arrested by police investigating the cutting-down of the world-famous Sycamore Gap tree in Northumberland.
The landmark, beside Hadrian's Wall, was cut down overnight on Wednesday.
Northumbria Police said the man was arrested on Friday evening and remains in custody assisting with inquirie
It is because if you went to there you would understand how perfect it is. As it is cental and looks so peaceful as well as being one of the best views you can see plus it is apart of one of the greatest walks you can do. And it is like a check point every day you would see people their. I just hope they replant it.😢
Nothing in the UK is sacred anymore 😠
Imagine being pissed over a tree being cut down, but when your government genocides 1 million brown people you Knight your prime minister for his war crimes. You're awful people.
You allowed copious foreigners to pour into your country whilst denigrating, belittling and throwing away ownership of your culture/ history. What did you expect?
You`re funny. *The Brits spent the last 500 years desacrating other countries or their cultural sites, temples, monuments, landscapes, golden carvings, paintings, architecture, pottery, worship sites, sculptures, waters, rivers, historic sites, tombs, forrestes, plantations...* but you`re complaining about a silly little tree cut down by a stupid little 16 year old lad. 😆😅🤣😂
Relax, another one can always be planted, it’s just a tree
HUMAN RIGHTS VANISHED A DECADE AGO SO WHO GIVES A SHT ABOUT A TREE WHILE WE FUND NAZISM AND WORLD WAR 3...
Do we really think a 16 did a cut that neat? It's actually pretty damn hard to cut a tree down with a straight cut like that.. This seems organised
Defo an Oceans 11 job…. 🤣🤣🤣 wtf! Ad go out there with a Swiss Army knife and cut that down easy 😉
Foolish. There's no wedge cut and hinge to direct and control the direction of fall. Looks like he cut it straight through on the up-wind side, relying on the wind direction alone to determine the fall path. If the wind had shifted (which it generally does in the UK, very blustery) .... He was in fact incredibly lucky not to have been killed. Could have crushed him ..... shame it didn't - but then we might have to show sympathy for him not for the tree
It ain't that hard. I used a chainsaw when i was 13 first time. By 16 this was well manageable. But you gotta grow up on a farm or be doing it for work id guess. Whoever it was had definitely handled a saw before and knew what they were doing cuz he didn't manage that with a typical little 14in chainsaw some clueless idiot would walk with. But he could definitely still have been 16, just sayin.
Only reason I clicked was the thumbnail, was expecting to see a hacked at game of thrones “throne style stump” from using a 14” battery chainsaw. This was a big bar saw, a job for any layman to get hold of one, let alone know how to use it so competently.
Does everything have to be a bloody conspiracy. Seriously.
They are maybe trying to hide the identity of who really did this awful act, by comfortably saying a 16 year old did it.
that's been done for a reason! obviously not a good one!!!!but obviously the person who done this knew what they were doing this wasn't some teenager like they said on the news! that was done by a professional with the experience and equipment to match! very sad that they felt the need to do this! 🤔
"why would he do it ?too upset stupid ppl, yeah its working
Something else at play with this... There's no way a yr old could carry this out... Absolutely no way
It’s such a shame that the tree did t fall on the individual
The man knew what he was doing. I wonder why he did it.
They need to pin the stump woth metal rods then place the the felled tree back up on those metal rods and cover all the open areas with sap from the same species of tree it will knit back together if they get it back on in the next 2 weeks it will save the tree
I was thinking that? But it's huge. Strong wind might topple it?
Really? Is that possible?
@Allegra11 yes it is possible
@Westman.-fe5wn it would need to be secured tight but it would work
Looking at the width of the trunk i am surprised - i own an electric chainsaw and i wouldnt be able to do such a cut without taking numerous chunks off the tree. Whoever did that went straight through and sidewards, thats a serious chainsaw that managed that.
maybe it was aliens
@@alanhall2795Or Donald Trump. Indict him on this I tell thee.
A man in his 60s has been arrested by police investigating the cutting-down of the world-famous Sycamore Gap tree in Northumberland.
The landmark, beside Hadrian's Wall, was cut down overnight on Wednesday.
Northumbria Police said the man was arrested on Friday evening and remains in custody assisting with inquirie
Yes it's called a petrol one
Breaks my heart how many trees and woodlands we're losing. I dont understand how it continues. Maybe there isnt hope for us
it's called theft, the regime want all the land for themselves so we rely on them for shelter and food, you will own nothing and be happy according to Fuhrer Sunak...
HS2....
That’s exactly why they are showing you this! And including the masks of course! It’s tailored to get people’s anxieties triggered like you display here with your comment! After that … you are easily manipulated to say ‘yes’ to just about anything they will propose is deemed necessary to supposedly prevent stuff like that. But it’s of course not about trees….
Trees break your heart? Damn, you must have a pretty stress-free life
We’ve been doomed ever since boris left
I don’t know why this has depressed me so much!
Don't be soft, it is just a plant, it has no soul
yeh but think of the warmth of an open wood fire
That’s why I said I don’t know why it has depressed me !
I understand, its really upsetting and says something about the state of society. I think whomever did it is mentally ill.
@@sallybally344 you obviously have no soul eithter🙄
I don't think the floods in Libya received as much spotlight as the loss of a single tree, we are talking about the loss of 20k people. You want to know what's wrong with this country? There u go. When people are more grieved with the loss of a single tree compared to 20k people including children, hearts have hardened and worst of all people will justify why a single tree deserves more coverage. Btw no doubt this is a hedious crime but let's get priorities right.
Like it or not, the media is all about story. And the tree story offers a mystery, a malicious and inexplicable act, a villain who did it, and the hope of closure when we find out who and why - and satisfaction when see them get what's coming to them. That's "story." Floods in Libya are "act of god" stuff, with no villain to blame, no mystery to be solved, and no satisfying outcome it could possibly have. It's just not as good a story. Sucks, but it's true.
@@blatherskite3009 good day, you have done exactly what I said would happen albeit in a more polite and indirect way, which is justifying why the tree deserves more of a spotlight. The problem is any media caters to the demands of its citizens, we in this country prefer fables over suffering or helping others. The media will only offer what the people want. We the people need to have a good look at ourselves and really question what has happened to cause our hearts to harden and lose compassion for human life, for the state we are in is one that will certainly lead to the fall of this society. For no society can prosper with this attitude.
@@FitraHomestead Unfortunately, I've worked in a Press Office and have some insight into how their minds work. As you say, they're giving the public what it wants - which is rarely the same as what it needs.
The other problem, which I didn't mention, is more to do with human nature. People find it easier to relate to more compact tragedies - a single person, or a family - but above a certain level it just becomes numbers and white noise; meaningless. The ability to grasp the full scale of it, and empathise with so many, it just isn't there.
It's probably a protection mechanism in the human brain. The empathy that we can feel for one person's horrible plight would probably kill us if we felt it in full, 4,000-fold.
I think it's just the way we're wired.
Someone clearly knew what tree meant and went out of there way to destroy it….
What such sad people there are in this world…. Pure destruction !
Very sad the tree has gone at the hands of a young misguided fool who has no values , i have no more words to express my anger .
Anger 😡😡😡😡😡😡😡
It’s just a tree lil bro.
Still better than the purposeful cutting down of trees and ancient woodlands by developers and they get away with it by saying "oops our bad".
@@tyroneevelynNo it's not, bro!
Ok but it’s just a tree, there’s nothing exceptional about it nor has it got any historical value other than being next to a Roman wall. Not saying they arnt wrong for cutting it down but you should probably save your anger for something more important
Not one person alive today will see this tree again in its full majesty…..some people just want to smash everything…what a world we live in
This has broke mine, and my extended familys hearts. On a separate note...why are these two idiots wearing muzzles while looking at the stump?
Sooo, a sixteen year old decided to buy or get hold of a chainsaw big enough to cut through a stump that large and so cleanly, hump it all the way out their and cut it because what? he was bored? didn't like the tree? if you believe that I've got a seaside home for sale in Birmingham 😅
No 16 year old chopped it down. More like someone wanting to delete some history
A man in his 60s has been arrested by police investigating the cutting-down of the world-famous Sycamore Gap tree in Northumberland.
The landmark, beside Hadrian's Wall, was cut down overnight on Wednesday.
Northumbria Police said the man was arrested on Friday evening and remains in custody assisting with inquirie
If the perpetrators can be found, they should pay all associated costs and spend time in prison. Unbelievably despicable act of pure evil. This is not vandalism, this is way beyond that.
They have just arrested a 60 year old as well as the 16 year old.
Certainly knew what he was doing, expertly felled from the look of the cut
A man in his 60s has been arrested by police investigating the cutting-down of the world-famous Sycamore Gap tree in Northumberland.
The landmark, beside Hadrian's Wall, was cut down overnight on Wednesday.
Northumbria Police said the man was arrested on Friday evening and remains in custody assisting with inquirie
Takes a huge amount of intelligence and cunning to do something like that.
What’s the point……just why?
No, just bare foolishness, recklessness and stupidity. It's the cut of a total amateur, a real suicide cut.
It’s hard to retain faith in people at times. This is just demoralising, perfect word.
As if we didn’t have enough to worry about someone does this!
Why invade Iraq and Afghanistan? why steal Venezuala's gold? why fund and train NAZIS in Ukraine? why is Tony Blair not in prison? lay off the drugs 77 brigade...
Probably TikTok
Coppicing works like this. Mature Sycamores are particularly good at regenerating when heavily pruned.
Heavily pruned 🤣. It's certainly that.
Look at the cuts. Someone knew what they were doing, and it wasn't because they'd had a chat with someone who did.
It's strange there is no choke cut in .How could it have been felled in a deliberate direction though
I am 🇺🇲, never been to England unless you count a layover at Gatwick. This made me cry. This is absolutely disgusting.
The perps will have told at least one other person and that person(s) will blab it.
Made you cry? 🤣🤣🤡
@@PMC_Wanker_Group yes. People scattered ashes there. People were married or propsed there. I am not a heartless dick, unlike .....🤔 hmmmm...
Meanwhile in the Amazon...
Oooh let’s compare everything! That’ll bring us fun won’t it.
It's mad.
The police actually came out over a tree. It's a shame but like you say
@@MultiLen10it’s not just a tree tho
I wish you could give comments awards lmao
But we aren't in the Amazon are we !
My grandmother couldn't get a policeman to come out when she got burgled, shame she wasn't a tree
This is the world we live we in, a whole news coverage about a tree in the middle of fucking no where
In the long run I'd say it's better to plant a new sycamore. And I'm really angry and saddened this has happened as much as anyone.
Get the right experts in check all conditions and get the largest that has a very good chance of surviving and plant that there or even on the other side of the wall so you have two options in years to come. And yes the toerags pay all costs no matter how expenses even if it initially has to be taxpayers and they spend many years or rest of their life repaying it. Last deny them a passport so they can't get away from paying it back till they have paid back a min of 75% but better over 80%
They should at least try to clone that one, so the original tree will live on.
This Tree 🌳 Was Part of Our English 🏴 Natural Heritage!!! 😢😭❤️
@@Shannon-pn1iv Yes Absolutely!!!
get a grip mate its a tree 🤣🤣🤣
It is very funny though to be fair, I mean as vandalism goes this has to be the funniest. How random! 😂😂😂😂😂😂
Heart breaking.
Indeed, heartbreaking that people care so much about this damn tree, it truly breaks my heart to see how pathetic humans are, people call for prison time over a tree, what a world this is
@@PMC_Wanker_Group The worse part is having to read comments by people such as yourself.
@@David-ry9ly get a grip
Ngl in my country we have a tree outside our house for a very long time, its quite and old tree. And I'd be pretty pissed off if some hooligan chopped it down. They say spirits are drawn to trees. Wouldn't want to anger them
Who ever did this knew exactly what they were doing. That's a pro cut with a pro saw!
Of course they did, you can't just cut a tree that big, needs a lot of effort to cut it !
it was Alan Titmush
Why on earth would you fell such a beautiful tree ?
Britain 2023 society is fcked... Whoever did it has sure whipped up a frenzy of unhappy folk.. What punishment would be dished out for doin that to a tree...
This Tree 🌳 Was Beautiful ❤ 😢 😭
Was
A truly sad situation. Tell me people aren't taking their anger out on the natural beauty that we are blessed with to enjoy.
The Sycamore Gap enormity looks to me like a good opportunity for Antony Gormley to step up.
I believe crime committers should not be named, some committers do it for the attention - they like seeing their names on the headlines. I'm not sure what was the reasoning for this particular case but it is better if they are not named and should be prosecuted as such.
Do you mean criminals?
It's so sad that we can't have nice things. Hope the timber will be used to make something nice atleast.
If anything positive can come of this its that humans finally after thousands of years are mourning the death of a 🌲 tree and realising it as a spiritual entity we all loved and shared.
Disgusting as it is Sheffield City Council chopped down thousands of healthy fully grown trees...if these are jailed so should the directors of this city's council.... they are no better
How can anyone do such a thing? This act has made millions of people unhappy. Why do that?
Because those millions of people are the weirdest people on earth, it's funny to offend the weirdos, I might video myself peeing on the tree's stump 😁
Huge doweling poles will fuse the tree back as initial cut is very clean! This is not the work of a lone pirate
@salparadise8581 Ah - but could the tree be made to 'live' again with some modern intervention - joining up the arteries as it were? That would be marvellous!
No way a 16 year old had a clue how to hold the saw to execute that cut, note the spray paint marks, that's a professional job.
This sycamore tree has attracted every media house in the world... nature speaking for itself 😊
WHY?? I for one don't understand. Pity the two parts couldn't be grafted/pinned and supported.
The options are likely for malice or for likes and views on TikTok. This is a worthless generation of aberrants who see no value in anything.
Highly doubt it was some 16 year old on his own who did it and just decided to do it for the sake of it somethinng that has been there for generations destroyed just another attack on British culture disgraceful family should be named and shamed but since hes 16 dobut it if anything will be done to punish the brat
An adult would have provided the chain saw and was possibly present
@@melcragg7814 yeah looks too good a cut to have been a child looks like it was someone who knew what they were doing think hes just taking fall for somone else since they know he would not get named or charged properly
When asked to comment on the criminal's motive the police said they were stumped! 😂
Any furniture made from this will be priceless
So sad! Why, just why? What made you do it boy? 👎👎
I do believe that mature trees can sometimes be carefully transplanted - so perhaps a replacement tree could be found for this spot?
It's too inhospitable a site. Best to let the tree do it own thing.
No, I believe a removal of the roots and a replacement (maybe not quite as mature) would be the way to go. I’ve seen some fairly large trees replanted, you just need the right substantial equipment
if u cared that much you would have organised sucurity, so fuck up !
You need to make that disrespectful teen pay to replace that tree with another large one just like it, no matter how long that takes! Put him in juvenile court! Talk about a bad example of a human being! His parents can help him since he was raised so disrespectfully!💔
What a crying shame the person who done this has severe mental health issues, but that's no excuse as a severe punishment must be imposed if caught. Someone knows something somewhere.
Not unlike the burning down of the 250 year old crooked pub, which was another local landmark.
Sad 😢
I know. What a tragic and horrendous day for the British public. My tears won’t stop dripping.
They need to find a reasonably mature sycamore and plant it there. In a few years it will blend in.
No, it would definitely be a target. Just like weirdo’s will now want a stump selfie.
@@valeriefairweather1928 yeh, they will. Watched pot never boils and all that.
This is a symbol of things right now. 300 years of tradition chopped down over night. Time to get serious!
I hope the tree can be made into a bench or a sculpture for all to still enjoy.
I’m hoping to hear of re growth starting next March as soon as Spring begins as everything non-evergreen is going dormant now (or finishing if it’s annual plants) with Winter on the way
Listen to fuggin Alan Titchmarsh, here.
Well sycamore is notoriously hard to kill off like that and with its age and large root system I can see some serious shoots coming up in a few years time
Well we have trees like this in our wood that were purposely chopped to allow many more shoots to come up and we have some quite magnificent trees that are quite old, but coppiced, and looking like giant hands. It's always extremely saddening to see a tree cut down, but some relief if the organism continues and survives.
Won't be back in our lifetime though. .. Thats the problem...
@@KansasStorm72 no, but she will live on. It's so sad.
@@rosiecatbanditnot if its has been drilled and poisoned,
Any chance the tree can be grafted onto the stem again? We can crowdfund and support such a cause
Yes, it may take decades but it will still be the same tree and will continue ageing.❤
It won't really be the same tree, though. But hopefully it'll be close enough.
The kid's lucky to be alive, he cut that tree down without creating a wedge hinge. Just sliced straight through it. The wind must have been blowing hard to keep the weight from pinching his bar. Crazy guy.
I wish his luck had run out along with his parents (the ones that are responsible for instilling morals into him),I'm from the north east and I feel ashamed of this north east muppet
areyou blind? theres a clear wedge and hinge
This has to be a good case for bringing back public flogging. What I'd like to know though is why were they wearing face nappies? Did the downed tree have COVID-19?
they are looking for forensic evidence. the face mask avoids contamination
Standard procedure for a crime scene
to protect the open stump
It was blowing a gale up there 🙂🎉
Flogged with the branches of the tree would be fitting.
Hmm is the 16yo the son of the landowner by chance? No way a child managed to cut this tree down without injury and ensure it fell exactly as it was supposed to. Noone saw him lug that chainsaw across acres of land etc? Blame the 16yo as they know nothing will happen to him
You say there's no wedge? Look at the base of the actual tree and not the stump. Not a wedge like normal but still cut with expertise and using the wind to take down and away. Only someone with distinct experience with a heavy duty saw could pull that off so cleanly. A farmers son would have no problem for example ... same as druggies have young runners, those who benefit from this would have someone younger take the fall. Pun intended
A man in his 60s has been arrested by police investigating the cutting-down of the world-famous Sycamore Gap tree in Northumberland.
The landmark, beside Hadrian's Wall, was cut down overnight on Wednesday.
Northumbria Police said the man was arrested on Friday evening and remains in custody assisting with inquirie
Special branch still on the scene !
This reminds me of the quote "“When the last tree has been cut down, the last fish caught, the last river poisoned, only then will we realise that one cannot eat money,”" But it is only a tree right… On a lighter note, my theory is it was a disgruntled person who hired the kid to cut the tree to spite his ex-wife because they confessed their undying love under it
Or they saw a picture of the new person in their life at the tree
Yes, a tale of revenge under the sycamore tree
We need the culprit and those who helped him named.
We want their faces and home addresses.
Then, they can be properly dealt with as society demands.
I hold those involved in this as no better than paedophiles.
@@mrhorizongamingchannel1719😂😂😂
Yeh fuck your tree!! 😂
Nah don’t give them the attention they were craving
no, not as terrible as paedophiles but I'm utterly disgusted like you.
Won't deny I'm upset, but paedophiles definitely have the priority for my loathing.
I hope it keeps growing, as long as it doesn't die I'll be happy.
Convenient how hes apparently old enough to be charged but not old enough for his details to be released by the press.
If you genuinely think a 16 year old child could do this, to a giant tree with a large heavy chainsaw, without a car, and with the precision of a tree surgeon. You need your head checking.
Why are they wearing covid mask around a tree? 🤔
They are crime scene investigators stops DNA contamination
Good point 😊
Possible Dutch Elm Disease....
I suppose not to affect the delicate part of the tree stump with human sneeze, breath, droplets.
Will b treating as a crime scene, which it is, forensics etc.
Very sad.
Sums up Britain perfectly, won't ever be the same again.
What's wrong with Britain? Where are you from? It's still one of the best countries in the world. I live in the South West, it's great here. Yes, a lot is wrong with politics down here in the South, but the quality of life is great.
Give him one year of community service, picking up litter, cleaning the streets, gardening, and planting learning about trees, He has too much time on his hands.
Sheffield Council strike again.
I think this act of vandalism is disgusting but would also like to state how disgusted I think it is that this story has pushed the horrendous killing of a young woman by a young man with a knife off of the top story spot it reflects the utterly distorted news media that we are subjected to here in the UK.
That's because of who did the killing!!!
Well I know it may not have anything to do with Arthurian legend but now I won't be able to stand beneath that tree with my broadswords and proclaim solemn oaths anymore. We used to do re-enactments up there every now and then, and it was a place I used to go for an afternoon and read English classics when I was younger.
My memories, a piece of my heritage, gone.
Yesterday, a 300yr old national treasure was cut down. It just shows that some humans can be exceptionally wicked. However, the amount of natural trees that get cut down in the Amazon every year is equally so.