Cavity-borne Rigidoporus ulmarius

[Kveldssanger]

Some cool shots from a hybrid black poplar, taken today. Had to double-take to see this, but there's a cracking bracket inside this cavity (pretty sure it's Rigidoporus)! Takes up almost the whole darn thing. There is also signs of colonisation up into the smaller stem, as you will see by the latter images.

[Kveldssanger]

Some more shots from the smaller stem.

[Kveldssanger]

As for work, I'll probably monolith this ASAP. Target area isn't too nice! A busy petrol station and some houses. Keeps the habitat for the Rigidoporus, and it'll satiate the desire to reduce risk. The pop next to it fell over in winds a few months back.

[Kveldssanger]

-patiently awaits for the Hampstead Heath lot to make comments-

 

(probably won't take long)

[David Humphries]

Rigidoporus for sure.

 

 

Was the protagonist/culprit of the previous failure identified?

 

 

 

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[Kveldssanger]

Nope (I never saw the tree, unfortunately), but I suspect perhaps Rigidoporus! Obviously it's guilt by association, but with that in the area and a pop of simlar size falling near the base, it's perhaps something to consider.

[Gary Prentice]

As for work, I'll probably monolith this ASAP. Target area isn't too nice! A busy petrol station and some houses. Keeps the habitat for the Rigidoporus, and it'll satiate the desire to reduce risk. The pop next to it fell over in winds a few months back.

 

From what I can make out there doesn't seem to be much in the way of crown symptoms in the main stem?

 

Wouldn't it be nice if the Picus was a £1000.00 and more decisions could be quantified? Not disagreeing with your decision, based on the information available I'd be proposing the same.

[Kveldssanger]

From what I can make out there doesn't seem to be much in the way of crown symptoms in the main stem?

 

Wouldn't it be nice if the Picus was a £1000.00 and more decisions could be quantified? Not disagreeing with your decision, based on the information available I'd be proposing the same.

 

Not really, but pops are a hard one sometimes I find. Not worth the risk, unfortunately. Pruning it would put it back to where it would be an issue every few years, and cost-wise that's unfortunately not probably feasible. Monolith as a high stem and let it re-sprout from low down.

[Gary Prentice]

My point was more that picus testing was cheaply available, the decision could (in some cases) be to do nothing. I often feel that works done unnecessarily in an attempt to mitigate a risk, to be on the safe side, without any real knowledge of the actual need.

 

I'd love to own more testing equipment and be able to offer that, but currently the cost of testing is so high the client is just fell it.

[10 Bears]

I often feel that works done unnecessarily in an attempt to mitigate a risk, to be on the safe side, without any real knowledge of the actual need.

 

I absolutely agree with this point Gary - often far too much felling is done just to be on the safe side and is often completely unnecessary.

 

I don't have a spare £20K to buy you a picus, but I may have some information that you could use. I will PM you over the weekend.