Any idea why?

They are doing a fair amount of tree surgery in the park, noticed this this morning on a tree that is probably dead or nearly dead.
Is it some form of environmental idea or just someone playing with a chainsaw.

 

When you hear that bark beetle coming along the path - RUN!

 

I have a conifer with a long split in the park (lightning about 20 years ago) but that is a lot straighter.
The curves here are smooth and natural looking so I don't think its someone with a chainsaw. to me it looks like a natural split, but no idea of the cause.

 

When I saw it from a distance I thought lightning but it's freshly cut and you can see the ridges of the tip of a chainsaw cut.

 

Maybe planning to strip the bark and make a feature of the dead stump? There's one near us where the dead tree has had the name of the farm carved down the length of the stump.

 

Yeah could be but its not in a prominent position, but I was thinking that maybe its to get the bark to strip faster naturally and rot to get in so as to support more insects, birds etc.

 

I believe it's exactly that Pete, it's just a way to speed up decomposition and let nature in.

 

Could it be vandals ? or maybe the tree surgeon being artistic

 

Its not vandals Michael, I'm pretty sure it was done by the tree surgeons.

I doubt they would spend time suspended up a tree doing it without a reason.