Anybody use an IML Micro Hammer?

[Island Lescure]

IML Micro Hammer

[Gary Prentice]

Mattmoss has its predecessor, I think.

[Island Lescure]

Cheers Gary. I guess it is not very popular...

[David Humphries]

Not used one or seen any demos so can't help on this one I'm afraid

 

 

 

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[Chris at eden]

Mattmoss has its predecessor, I think.

 

What is that then, the old arborsonic decay detector?

[Gary Prentice]

What is that then, the old arborsonic decay detector?

 

Think that's what it is. We took it out to play, oops to test a poplar last year but it had a battery issue, so didn't get any joy. IIRC it's the one where you have to take a plug of bark out.

[Chris at eden]

Think that's what it is. We took it out to play, oops to test a poplar last year but it had a battery issue, so didn't get any joy. IIRC it's the one where you have to take a plug of bark out.

 

Yeah that's arbosonic. Not great, bit old school really. I saw one back in 97 when I first started training to be a tree surgeon. Apparently it couldn't tell the difference between a cavity and a crack.

[Island Lescure]

I was just curious as I saw it on a website connected to Mattheck which didn't have much info on it. I keep on hoping for a cheap and portable non-intrusive decay detection device to be able to be more accurate when asserting trees for their risk...

[David Humphries]

I keep on hoping for a cheap and portable non-intrusive decay detection device to be able to be more accurate when asserting trees for their risk...

 

Mmmmmmm, I wonder if that will ever become a reality ?

 

 

 

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[10 Bears]

non-intrusive decay detection

 

The holy grail in arboriculture!