Dead Horse Chestnut Fell

[scotspine1]

Today's job - this old Chestnut had loads of character and was much loved by the local community

 

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[Dean Lofthouse]

It scattered debris a fair old distance Tim, way past the ticka tape

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

Did anyone get an id on the fungal agent? looks like a white rotter, polyporous squamosus perhaps?

[scotspine1]

Did anyone get an id on the fungal agent? looks like a white rotter, polyporous squamosus perhaps?

 

Armillaria mellea

[scotspine1]

It scattered debris a fair old distance Tim, way past the ticka tape

 

we thought that might happen Dean.....waited until there were no people about, that piece of shrapnel that heads towards the camera was 2 ft long and heavy, would've done some serious damage no doubt

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

agh yes that explains the aggresive speed of the colonisation particulary the cambial zone before serious breakdown of the woody substrate a typical of the white rots, hence the still dark colouration inthe wood.

 

good shots, love a bit of rot!

[Dean Lofthouse]

we thought that might happen Dean.....waited until there were no people about, that piece of shrapnel that heads towards the camera was 2 ft long and heavy, would've done some serious damage no doubt

 

Something to bear in mind

[skyhuck]

agh yes that explains the aggresive speed of the colonisation particulary the cambial zone before serious breakdown of the woody substrate a typical of the white rots, hence the still dark colouration inthe wood.

 

 

Yes me, Stevie and Dean were thinking the same!!!!!!!!!!

[skyhuck]

Nicely done Tim!!!!!!!!!!!!

[armchairarborist]

where did the woodchip go? in the roofbox?