Dead Wood Habitat

[David Humphries]

Yeah it was a good one, cheers mate.

 

Team enjoyed the challenge.

 

 

 

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[Mark Bolam]

Log store must be bulging David, or that would have been decked in a trice and the team would have spent a couple of days ringing, splitting and bagging it so it didn't soil the boot of your Bentley?

 

Nice work, love these well thought out solutions.

Yes Huck, I know you would have climbed it.

 

 

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[David Humphries]

Too decayed to burn Mark, plus the bugs would crawl out and infest the Bentley on the way back to the country estate no matter how hard the staff tried to sanitise it

 

 

 

 

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[Joe Newton]

Log store must be bulging David, or that would have been decked in a trice and the team would have spent a couple of days ringing, splitting and bagging it so it didn't soil the boot of your Bentley?

 

Nice work, love these well thought out solutions.

Yes Huck, I know you would have climbed it.

 

 

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Looking at these monoliths I'll bet you thought about posting a few of your reductions!

 

Too decayed to burn Mark, plus the bugs would crawl out and infest the Bentley on the way back to the country estate no matter how hard the staff tried to sanitise it

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Brilliant work David, it's a credit to you and your team. It's great that the purse strings fund projects like these. I believe it really is so important.

 

I had the pleasure of meeting one of your climbers a while back (agent arb on here) in a motorway services. Nothing untoward, I just bought a pair of spikes from him. From the little I had a chance to talk to him about it, it seems to be really rewarding work.

 

I trust you still get your lads topping connies at least fortnightly to keep them humble?

[David Humphries]

Cheers for the comments Joe, appreciated.

 

Agent Arb was last seen climbing the stairway to heaven........

 

 

If he doesn't bring me back a golden harp he'll be plucking OPM caterpillars in his trolleys

 

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[Mark Bolam]

Top lunge!

 

 

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[David Humphries]

Dead willow from earlier in the thread colonised by Ganoderma australe.

 

We reduced it in 2011 to a standing dead monolith

 

 

 

 

 

 

6 years on and we've reduced it once a couple of years ago and the white rot has led to further collapse (willows are pants as long term monoliths)

 

But it still provides valuable habitat and a perch for the resident Kestrel

 

 

 

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[David Humphries]

Loving this softwood carved monolith at Lynford Arboretum.

 

Full of 'Life'

 

 

 

 

 

 

[David Humphries]

This sycamore died from sooty bark disease (Crytostroma corticale) in 2008.

 

 

We monolithed it and went to town on the coronets & fractures with aesthetic in mind.

 

 

 

 

Here it is 10 years on

It's dropped a few of the retained limbs from soft rot (possibly should have gotten around to shortening them) but it still stands as a fine bug hotel and fruits a variety of different fungi species at different times of the year.

 

[daltontrees]

For the fungi anoraks out there... I just came across this snippet about Oyster mushrooms, which is new to me and pretty amazing (see last paragraph).

 

https://scottishwildlifetrust.org.uk/2013/12/the-world-is-your-oyster-mushroom/

Edited June 19, 2018 by daltontrees