Kretzschmaria deusta

[Tom D]

Its also worth noting that the rot was pretty bad at the failure site yet the fruiting body was only about 4 square inches...

[scotspine1]

cross section of a recent large roadside Kretzch Beech removal (see below)

 

Over the years I've attended many windblown Beech trees which failed due to Kretzch, also dismantled and felled many large Kretzch Beeches over the years. Nearly always see extensive decay when seeing fruiting bodies like in your pics.

 

Personally I would fell those two trees if they are near a busy B road. The tomograph/picus is a complete waste of time and money.

[David Humphries]

Significant decay across the buttresses & roots of this lime

 

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[swinny]

Not what i was expecting David, it came up with more root plate than i thought, i was thinking more of roots snapping nearer the base or maybe stem to go at base?

[wood cutter]

Fantastic video! Wow

[David Humphries]

We took the opportunity to look across the wood densities associated with the different decays on this cross section from the failed lime from post 83.

 

Clearly shows the higher resistance across the soft rot section where the Kretzschmaria prevades as opposed to where the graph drops off significantly through the white rot of the core of the cross section.

 

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[daltontrees]

David, for comparison what amplitude would you expect for completely sound Lime?

[David Humphries]

Jules, the readings on this cross section of lime were taken across both functional wood and decayed volumes. The work is being put together for an article on soft rot and decay drills.

 

When I get back to the office later I'll put up the reading taken across functional wood which we took as a control from the same cross section

 

They make for an interesting comparison

 

 

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[David Humphries]

Jules, here's the comparison.

 

Like I said, its for an article so I don't want to go into to much detail at this point.

 

 

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[sloth]

Interesting stuff as ever David. Thanks for posting and I look forward to the article...