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Congratulations mate!! Hope you never look back!! I think your perseverance will do you proud!!
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Veteran Trees - Myth, Reality & Management
raafbeard replied to David Humphries's topic in Training & education
Should be there Wednesday too!! Thanks Barchams! -
Good Luck with that mate!
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From what I have heard from a colleague it sounds quite similar (if not the same??).....Hard, multiple choice and lots of PHC... Hope that helps, I would query though whether they are actually different or if there is any benefit to you sitting it here also. He said the criteria was very US based. Good luck!!
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Very nice work Skyhuck!! Type of job where the Mog and Crane really earn their keep
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18 Stoner, I am no Biologist either but I think all our large broad leaves are under threat from this type of canker at the moment. Its seems to me that environmental factors, heat from the sun and unpredictable patterns of rain and snow, larger popluations of tree pests are all having detrimental affects on trees globally. I know I am all just doom and gloom but I personally see our long term environmental future as being very bleak - with no other option than letting nature, the planet adapt as it must.
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Based on my current understanding you are all right. A tree compartmentalises best without assistance, and leaving pegs allows this to happen away from the main stem which reduces the chances of the main stem becoming infected by pathogens. If you look at pegs which have begun the callousing process you see that the reaction wood will typically develop over a larger portion of the remaining stub than would be available had the branch been target pruned. However are stubs acceptable in formal settings? In this case target pruning is the closest we can get to replicating nature whilst leaving a tidy looking job, and minimising damage/stress to the tree. With dead pegs/branches I only ever reduce them back to wood which is already compartmentalised and avoid opening fresh wounds. Hope that helps feel free to critise contradict if I am wrong.
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Great patterns on the Aspen...did any go to Turners? or is it firewood?
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Nice one!! Sound effective and viable ..lets hope we get some actual results and treatment under way in the UK soon! Although i'd be prepared to start planting wild garlic for now better than paying for an industrial solution.
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Is it flat on its face?? ...Think we need to just do some guerilla climbing at an undisclosed site? Would be cool to see some different techniques and set ups..
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Exactly!! You couldn't make it up... Thanks for posting ...to me it just makes "everything simpler but more confused"
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Tree in ceiling at Natural history museum installed
raafbeard replied to Will Hinchliffe's topic in General chat
Possible for project of a lifetime I would say....Excellent work mate!! Do you know if they would be doing decent size posters or such of the installation? I want to check out the details...!! -
Cheers yourself Mick!! Glad you two were able to sort something out
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Good post Bundle!! Presumably this "treatment" Could work out in the favour of someone very nicely if agreed as the best solution to the problem. I am currently thinking that we simply will lose HC (Aesculus hippocastanum) as it is in it's current form for now, as it succumbs to the pressures of it's environment here in the UK. As a non-native I think this would be acceptable and perhaps explain why it is so vulnerable and suffered such with Leaf miner. As part of natures cycle other Aesculus varities could become more prevalent, or perhaps hippocastanum will adapt and evolve. Perhaps nature will provide a natural predator.
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Nice I'll look forward to it!
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She's a beaut Mick!! Theres a pint with your name on it if you ever venture down Faversham creek...
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Thank you Marcus ..
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Glad you escaped ok Andy and thanks for posting! I think your experience saved you there, and I know you are giving yourself a hard time but you had the thought that something could go wrong and got yourself far enough away to prevent serious injury. If you had stood watching it fall it could have been far worse, and you will deal with this situation far better in the future... Enjoy your weekend mate!!
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For me the College, Lecturers were spot on. I think that some students got a surprise with the work, and some couldn't meet the commitment of college and some would just never be employable. Like I say I am very interested to know where everyone ended up?
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Very interesting ...I've been trying to work out what was happening with this. Disappointing to hear the Government stance but I guess typical of their attitude to anything political..or anything which may require them to do something which vaguely ressembles positive action. Not sure if Bartletts chemicals are the way forward either!! I Do think though that we should be taking some action to preserve the Aesculus but then again it seems that more and more tree types are being affected by one type of pest or disease - especially bleeding types It could be just my lack of inexperience and the new detail with which I look at things but generally tree vigour seems to be getting worse...to hot and not enough water in the Summer
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At my College over the first year I was there, the rate of dropping out was very high and I think in the end only a handful of us have gone onto full time practical work... I would be very interested to know for sure though and hope to find out soon.
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Caddy getting sweaty in a harness has to be worth watching!! I thought the Arborist shown had a great way with words and explained our job, attitudes and feelings brilliantly!
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Great work MB
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Thanks John, the coppice should look good! I just can't really work out why on our job they are removing these trees? Some of them aren't great but some are reallly nice and I can only hope that they are just clearing a bit in order to retain the maturest of the trees in a nice manageable habitat
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Nice tidy work there John!! Can I ask though, why are we felling Elms?? We did some last week too for an LA and was just wondering why based on the species we were felling them? I could understand if they were dead or a "nusiance" but slowly clearing what appears to be a healthy population of Elms seemed to go against conservation a bit...?
