Sycamore Gap Tree

[Big Vinny K]

Just been on 5 live with a lady who lives nearby.
She’s devastated.

Such a terrible thing to do for something that is part of our heritage and natural beauty too.

In terms of the reason anyone would want to do this - it could be financial. With the demand for log for wood burners a tree like that would be worth at least a grand.

[Rileybobs]

Just been on 5 live with a lady who lives nearby.
She’s devastated.

Such a terrible thing to do for something that is part of our heritage and natural beauty too.

In terms of the reason anyone would want to do this - it could be financial. With the demand for log for wood burners a tree like that would be worth at least a grand.

I suspect someone felling a tree for fire wood would have chosen a less prolific tree and also remembered to take it with them.

[fidelcastro]

Feelings are running high in Northumberland and Cumbria.
If the identity of who did this gets out, their safety will be in danger.

Good.

[AmbleClaret]

Treesured memories, well now they have a stump - im sure there will be a plaque or something in its place.

Winner of most stupid p@@ck on here,and that's a low bar.

[Burnley1989]

I suspect someone felling a tree for fire wood would have chosen a less prolific tree and also remembered to take it with them.

[Bigbopper]

I suspect someone felling a tree for fire wood would have chosen a less prolific tree and also remembered to take it with them.

The tree appears to be , or was, standing on its own so you could hardly get less prolific.

[Rileybobs]

The tree appears to be , or was, standing on its own so you could hardly get less prolific.

Good point. Replace prolific with prominent.

[groove]

I used to be a groundworker for a professional tree surgeon. A tree that size you'd really need to know what your doing. It's very physically demanding and you'd need a large chainsaw to cut this one. No way has this been done by kids messing around. Unless the culprit is already proficient in tree surgery, which is interesting if he's only 16.

[Stayingup]

It’s just a tree

Do you know what a cultural desert is? You.

[Nori1958]

I used to be a groundworker for a professional tree surgeon. A tree that size you'd really need to know what your doing. It's very physically demanding and you'd need a large chainsaw to cut this one. No way has this been done by kids messing around. Unless the culprit is already proficient in tree surgery, which is interesting if he's only 16.

Had a few not much older knocking on our door asking if we want our trees cutting or prunning, if they've been brought up around it, they'll have the kit and know how to cut it down.

[Volvoclaret]

Do you know what a cultural desert is? You.

Brain desert more like.

[kentonclaret]

First arrest of many possibly. I'm struggling to believe a 16 year old acting alone could do this.

The police are looking for tree fellas

[Devils_Advocate]

The police are looking for tree fellas

I've heard Special Branch are on the case

[Vincent'sCap]

I've heard Special Branch are on the case

Plank!

[dougcollins]

Looks like a pro job from the stump.

[Big Vinny K]

I suspect someone felling a tree for fire wood would have chosen a less prolific tree and also remembered to take it with them.

Didn’t know it hadn’t been taken away but cheers for pointing it out !!
Feck knows why they did it then.

[Stayingup]

I've heard Special Branch are on the case

Wow really funny. Showing your class again.

[TheOriginalLongsider]

16 year old with a chainsaw. What the hell ?

[BurnleyFC]

Hexham Chainsaw Massacre.

[I'maclaret]

Didn’t know it hadn’t been taken away but cheers for pointing it out !!
Feck knows why they did it then.

I'm sure someone looking to make a few quid selling wood would pick a tree that they could actually access without dragging the wood a mile along a narrow hilly footpath.

[TommyPicks]

The UK is an absolute state at the minute. Will really take a cultural shift to change anything. Just can’t see anything happening. Feels like we’re too far down a very grim road

[johnnyjones]

Sad that, many years ago we took our kids to see the tree from Robin Hood and the wall the Romans built, it was a beautiful sunny day so many people doing the same.

Cant imagine why anyone would do this

[Jakubclaret]

Simply beyond any reasonable explanation, I give up trying to fathom out some people's behavioural actions & weird ideas a long time ago.

[Rileybobs]

Simply beyond any reasonable explanation, I give up trying to fathom out some people's behavioural actions & weird ideas a long time ago.

Says the man who admitted to taking a chainsaw to trees in public woods for fire wood.

[Big Vinny K]

Says the man who admitted to taking a chainsaw to trees in public woods for fire wood.

I thought he wanted the wood for public stocks and pillory ?

[groove]

This is terrorism. Its an attack on an ancient landmark and our rural heritage.

[Rileybobs]

I thought he wanted the wood for public stocks and pillory ?

[bfcjg]

Typical of the ills society at the moment. No respect,no caring and let's face it ultimately no or little consequences for the pillock who did it.

[Jakubclaret]

Says the man who admitted to taking a chainsaw to trees in public woods for fire wood.

You aren't doing anybody any harm if the trees have already fallen the trees will just left to rot otherwise.

[Rileybobs]

You aren't doing anybody any harm if the trees have already fallen the trees will just left to rot otherwise.

Yes, because since when has stealing someone else’s property done anybody any harm.

Where were you on the morning of the 28th September?

[Jakubclaret]

Yes, because since when has stealing someone else’s property done anybody any harm.

Where were you on the morning of the 28th September?

Stop being so pompous it's a dead tree that's going to rot, some people like foraging for food & plants & using them for medicinal purposes are they stealing, if something is going to waste you might as well benefit from it before somebody else does it's called being resourceful.

[evensteadiereddie]

Wow.

[basil6345789]

It’s just a tree

They should put you in Calderstones, along with the culprit

[Shaggy]

I didn’t think there would be much arguing over this one on here…

[Big Vinny K]

Yes, because since when has stealing someone else’s property done anybody any harm.

Where were you on the morning of the 28th September?

The definition of irony.
Being punished in the pillory made out of the wood that you stole under the criminal laws you dreamed about all your life.
Box office

[claretonthecoast1882]

Stories like this make you question what goes on in homes and schools these days for someone to think this should have been done.

[TheFamilyCat]

It's providing a welcome distraction of outrage though.

[HagridsHut]

They should put you in Calderstones, along with the culprit

Hahahahaa I’ve heard it all now.

[jos]

What kind of person gains any joy from doing something like this?
I hope the public gets to know the name/names of those responsible.

[Hipper]

It was a very nice looking tree.

I always considered Sycamores a bit of a weed tree. It often arrives via its seed by fences and walls or just in the garden. That's what obviously happened with this one as no-one would plant it so close to a wall, especially an important one like Hadrian's.

[Volvoclaret]

Hagrid proves that care in the community isn't working.

[claret2018]

The nation has lost its collective mind over this tree. Yes it’s bad and shouldn’t have been cut down but you’ve got people on here wishing harm to whoever did it, and someone calling it terrorism??

I hate to think how some people cope when actual bad things happen.

[Volvoclaret]

So, if someone blew up Big Ben, Nelson's Column or The Angel of the North no one should be upset?

[bobinho]

Saw (NOT a pun) this thread just after it happened and thought I'd let it develop without my help - so to save me trawling through it, can someone tell me, have we had:

(A) shoot them in the face, and

(B) they are just misunderstood rascals, yet?

[Healeywoodclaret]

There will be several people responsible for this. Young lads raised in these rural areas are no strangers to felling trees. A few lads probably paid to do it. Words fail me how anyone can think this is ok. I mean was it their tree to cut down? No this earths beauty is for all of us to enjoy. Throw the book at them

[Volvoclaret]

Take a Chainsaw to them

[Jakubclaret]

The nation has lost its collective mind over this tree. Yes it’s bad and shouldn’t have been cut down but you’ve got people on here wishing harm to whoever did it, and someone calling it terrorism??

I hate to think how some people cope when actual bad things happen.

I can answer the final part quite easily they just come on here & have a senseless rant & rave.

[Taffy on the wing]

Didn't they arrest a 16 year old boy?

[fidelcastro]

Didn't they arrest a 16 year old boy?

Released on bail.

[Elizabeth]

Didn’t know it hadn’t been taken away but cheers for pointing it out !!
Feck knows why they did it then.

There's a big clue in the OP