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Should have been wearing one of these as disguise really

I must say I find this quite bizarre. It was awful that it was felled in that fashion - but the tree itself was nothing special - it's where it was and the framing of it in the gap and so on. I have spent years of my life chopping down sycamore trees because they are a non-native, invasive...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-tyne-67438641

From the Guardian Or for balance (I know what NSC is like!) - here's the Mail https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12580169/Former-lumberjack-investigated-felling-Hadrians-Wall-sycamore.html

Daily Mail / Telegraph reckon it was someone with a grudge against the National Trust. I can't work out whether someone in the Mail is wishing to join in the long NSC tradition of puns, or whether this is entirely accidental.

16 year old released on bail, pending further inquiries.

Nice - got out and about a decent amount then. I'm in Rights of way and find myself increasingly keyboard bound...

Doubt it. Trees that old and that big don't tend to coppice that well. More likely the shock will kill it - although a few small side shoots might pop out.

Less wooden you mean?

What did you do Kosh - were you on the Ranger side of things? (I work for the Lake District NPA).

I've cut down trees that sort of size on my own, and after carrying the chainsaw some distance - but I did have a bloody great bar, probably something like 16-20". Looking at that, it's someone who knows exactly what they are doing though - they've got the mouth size right (the wedge you take...

This is sad. I do wonder at the press release put out though - saying that there is 'reason to believe it was deliberately felled'. It would be hard to 'accidentally' take a chainsaw to a tree.