Do you Sterilise: your tools?

[Mesterh]

If your going to Sterilise your saws then you may as well serilise everything or i think it would be a waste of time. Spores will be alot more at home on your clothes,ropes,harness etc.

 

I remember reading that honey fungus spores are usually present in air samples taken anywhere all year round, and they have been found in air samples 5 miles up!

From what I gather there are fungus spores everywhere all the time its just the old,weak,damaged(unlucky) tree that gets it.

[Ian150482]

Aside from tools, how about when your pricing, walking around looking at the large fungus around the bottom of the beech, "tut tut" to the customer, give a price for removal, hop back in your vehicle and drive off to look at the next job, taking with you fungal spores on your boots? Or is that Job Creation?

 

 

 

Ah so thats how you get all that work Andy.

[Andy Collins]

Ah so thats how you get all that work Andy.

 

A few years back we were working on a belt of beeches about 4miles long, sgtarted at one end, and it seemed by the next year the fungal spores had raced ahead of us, and us mere lackeys joked that the boss must be spreading the spores with his feet Of course he said this was stupid and couldnt happen, and the spores were carried in the air, but it was food for thought at the time.