Dead Wood Habitat

[Lorry thompson]

Cracking pics monkey... I'd like to come see what your doing first hand some time if you don't mind????

 

If Ben takes you up on your kind offer MonkeyD I'd love I ride down with him if it's ok I'd love to see your work:)

[David Humphries]

Cracking pics monkey... I'd like to come see what your doing first hand some time if you don't mind????

 

If Ben takes you up on your kind offer MonkeyD I'd love I ride down with him if it's ok I'd love to see your work:)

 

 

 

Make it so

 

 

 

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[Lorry thompson]

Thanks David appreciate it:)

[David Humphries]

Oak that went over 12 months ago.

 

Had to be cleared off a fence line, but trunk has stayed where it fell.

 

 

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[David Humphries]

So here it is 12 months on..........

 

Frass indicates that it is now home to wood boring inverts or perhaps wood wasps.

 

 

Think of all those poor lonely fireplaces that this could have supplied

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[Fungus]

So here it is 12 months on..........

 

Any details on the fungus in photo 4 and 5 : gills and spore colour, stipe central or excentric ?

[David Humphries]

Any details on the fungus in photo 4 and 5 : gills and spore colour, stipe central or excentric ?

 

 

Wrong thread Gerrit

 

Tbh, I really wasn't particularly tuned into the fungi.

Didn't take any below shots.

 

 

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[David Humphries]

Managing a large piece of dead Oak within a play ground.

 

Been sculpted around two years, been dead a year or so before that.

 

Ganoderma resinaceum (probably), fruiting between a couple of the butresses.

I put the Digital Micro Probe on all the butress roots today, to give us a beter understanding of the condition of the decay/wood.

 

Once I've annalysed the data set, I'll put forward some options to the site managers to help steer how we manage this one in to the future.

 

 

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[Tom Joye]

They come from all corners.

Sweden, Belgium, (Watford ) even have an enterprising Arb from the Royal Botanic Gardens at Edinburgh coming down next week for a gander.

 

 

Just catching up on threads I missed...

 

The Belgian can hereby confirm that visiting Davids playground is well worth the trip Some pioneering work being done there (especially when seen from a Belgian point of view, running decades behind ... )

 

And while I'm here, might as well post some pics of a park tree (if I remember well it was beech) in Ghent that has been gone for many years, but that spent the last 5 years of his life looking like this (at least one visionary deed over here):

[David Goss]

Cracking thread this one David

Dont know how i missed it before now...