Vibraye's oaks for Notre-Dame

After the fire at Notre-Dame de Paris on 15 April 2019, how can we move from emotion to action?
Two years after the tragedy, oak trees are being cut down all over France, in private, communal and state-owned forests, to rebuild the Cathedral and its arrow. The Domaine de Vibraye forestry group is participating in this effort with five oak trees and one objective: to use the know-how of environmentally friendly forestry to overcome the nightmare of the burning building.
The oak felled in this video is between 215 and 220 years old, its useful length is 19.4m, it was selected for its straightness and its diameter of 118cm at 1.30m from the ground and will provide a beam of 11.2m long and 55cm wide, which will be used in the stool (the base) of the arrow.
This final destination will give this two hundred year old oak a second life much longer than the one it has lived standing on its roots. The oak was felled during the waning moon of the first half of March, before the sap rises, and before the spring nesting season.
Filming, editing and production of the video: Vincent Deby, Arnaud Rampnoux
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