This whole story… ‘Adam Carruthers’…it’s like something out of a Jez Butterworth play or a DH Lawrence novel…
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Guilty verdict. I’m so shocked
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Can’t believe the two guys who had a video of the tree being felled and then a conversation about felling the tree and also a piece of the tree and a chainsaw in their jeep did it!!!
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Wonder what the sentence is?
I really hope it’s not a heavy one.
When I first heard about the tree back when it was discovered I did think it was terrible and sad but for some reason, something about these two has made me think it’s not that bad.
Y’know… to ‘Adam Carruthers’ it is just a fucking tree… and rightly so in my opinion
It’s videos like this that really piss me off…
Everything in this video is exactly why I think it’s ok!!! … that people had ‘valued’ the tree at £600000, value to local business and tourism blah blah, the fact that is WASNT an act of protest, all these are reasons why it’s ok in my opinion…
I just feel like on some level the vandalistic relationship these two have with the tree is actually fucking deeper and more sincere than the commodifying relationship one all these other sanctimonious hypocrites had. If you don’t understand that a tree is inherently valuable then you’re a hundred times worse than these two… they fucking saved that tree!
Hand of god through Adam Carruthers!
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In contrast to the above post, I hope they throw the fucking book at them
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‘Adam’ and ‘Daniel’… 
definitely the hand of god!!
I bet they get considerably less than the people who thought about blocking a road for a while
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Mine should probs go in the controversial options thread tbf
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hopefully they both end up planting loads and loads more trees. like a million trees planted would be good
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If you own a table you’ve got no right to moan about these guys
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I find the motivation behind it a little disturbing tbh. We don’t really know why they did it, but I think that choosing a tree that loads of people really like is telling. When the statue of the slave trader in Bristol was pulled down, everyone understood that was a rebuke against what the statue represented in society, I think there must be something similar here. But instead of pulling down something that represented society’s connection to white supremacy and violence, they pulled down something that represented people’s connection to nature and beauty and the land that gives us all life. It’s quite dark to think of two men in their thirties having such motivation and getting such a thrill about lashing out against something in society that most of us would see as quite wholesome and good.
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The wood from mine came from a recycled barn door bam, probably never even seen a tree. Can I still have a right to moan please?
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Of course you can
It is disturbing and, joking aside, I’m not saying they’re good guys…
Maybe just that, philosophically, in some way, could ‘just a tree’ be better than a tree that has value because of business, tourism or even just that it’s valuable because it’s wholesome and makes us feel good?
Definitely a controversial opinion and I agree that there probably was no noble cause (but again that somehow makes it more poignant).
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Ironically another historically significant tree was chopped down to make this book
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But yeah, I do see that ‘just a tree’ followed by ‘so let’s destroy it’ is very dark.
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Oak
Just a tree
Willow
Just a tree
Sycamore
Just a tree
Elm
Just a tree
Cedar
Just a tree
Pine
Just a tree
Ash
Just a tree
Maple
Just a tree
Chestnut
Just a tree
The next big tree
Just a tree
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Like I’m sorry the tree got cut down - give em a few hours of community service or whatever, but a custodial sentence lmao. Whole thing feels really Brass Eye.
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I believed them when they said they didn’t do it. Feel like a proper lemon now
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