sean freeman
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I was back in the tropics this week and snapped these in a park area in Townsville, just thought it interesting that one tree had self grafted and the other...well, not quite more like resting on itself... Tree species Albizia saman (monkeypod tree)
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Giles there is more info here Arborsmith Studios - Axel Erlandson Tree Circus and here axel erlandson: living tree sculptures But if you google "axel erlandson" you'll find lots of info David, I guess the prize talk was a bit tongue in cheek but I'l certainly stretch to an Qld T shirt to anyone that does have some major insight into the processes going on, I suspect that a certain D Lonsdale :sneaky2:might have got as close as anyone can without cutting into the timber. I'm going to try and organize permission to take a sample before the years out.
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I thought the video of the octopus tree might intrigue and amuse [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AIQibfAtzOY]YouTube - The Octopus Tree[/ame]
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Andrew, I can only read your itinerary with envy, perhaps I will be able to steal the notes from Cass when he returns...if he writes any! Hope you have a good turn out, regards to David L, make sure Cass wears pants:sneaky2:
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Great pics of the beech pollard David, the growth you photographed displays fluid like properties....meristematic tissues are fascinating. Why were you doing the measuring? For your own interest or something else?
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Hi Steve, I wish I could give a definative answer to the what is it question:001_smile: I pestered D Lonsdale until he gave me his take on it, as previously suggested on the turkey oak earlier in the thread he felt it would most likely be initiated by a bacterial infection, but did feel that there was a genetic predisposition element included in the mix. I don't know if the high degree of grafting going on in this tree is part of the explanation, it could be. I have certainly seen smaller odd protrubences on other E. tereticornis in the same area but nothing on the scale present in this tree. Other Arbs have reported seeing very similar growths on (a very few) individual trees elsewhere.
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Brilliant thread David, with some magnificent photos...it is truely aweinspiring to observe some of the adaptive growths that trees can produce. Andrew...you should definately get some of the original pics off Cassian that went into his published articles whilst he is over there visiting, and 'working'. Here are some shots from a Eucalyptus tereticornis with way too much time on its 'hands' imho. Dragged Andrew Cowan, David Lonsdale and others to this one when they were over here couple of years ago.
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Tis the season to see Fungi, fa la la la la....
sean freeman replied to David Humphries's topic in Fungi Pictures
Really not sure if you get this particular fungi in the UK but it one of (many of) my favourites, pretty in pink:001_wub:, and one of the hardest working decomposers of leaf litter and detritous on our forests. Marasmius pulcherripes on leaf litter under Ficus macrophylla SE Qld I'm confidently told they are edible but I have not tried them.
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Ha ha, yes very likely, though not all that simple since the pipes are very long and cross a few creeks/rivers, many different protection regulations envolved, just like the UK I suspect. The issue for the river banks I suspect is that when they created the cuttings for the road they extensively filled the banks with spillage from the civil works...and now some 30yrs on we are dealing with those consequences combined with the alteration to the flow of the river after all the decades of urban infill.
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Four days...three days for the four A frames and a day to get all the cables properly tensioned.
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Andy it was made very clear to the company that was doing the job that the crane was not practical very early on....when I got a call it was my first reaction too, crane has to be the most sensible approach???? Just proved not to be possible the road is such a major artery into Brisbane that I can (kinda) understand the reticence to the idea of blocking it off, a 180 or 200+Ton crane would have reached the job site from the road (before the bridge) It blew out by a week...they had some very bad weather three days into the cutting and could not get onto the river banks for a couple of days...more trees fell (not onto the pipe!) No the lower portion of the root ball was still attached to the bank proper and well and truely jammed against the pipe. I have no pics of the final stages of the job sadly.
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Last few shots, towards the end of the job (as always) things got progressively heavier...it all went really well and completed without any problems despite the extreme nervousness of the client..as I say I was really only there at the start to help with the rigging set up.
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Shots of Boyd working like a dog, I wish I still had that energy and strength, guess tapping keys is pretty much my workload these days...
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The pics seem to double up so I wont try to narrate them...I was not able (time wise or physically!) to actually work on the tyrolean bit I did get to try it out before having to fly north. Boyd was the skilled climber doing all the work in the following shots.
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Can't remember what I was supposed to be doing here sort of looks like I'm asking for a burger? Put your back into it The client wondering if any of this is actually going to work.... Finally lines across the river
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Here are some shots from an interestig and challenging rigging job I helped set up over the Brisbane River a few months back. Storms had undermined a large Euc which then failed onto one of the main water supply pipes to the Capital. We were not permitted to use the bridge to set up a crane, MainRoads Dept would not sign off on the rating nor play ball over the road closure.....we could have set up on the approach but would have needed a huge crane $$$'s Lovely site to set up A frames.... Hmmm how do we get these things up again??? Plenty more pics...to come
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Just some pics of my favourite veteran Ficus sp in and around the Gold Coast region of SE Queensland
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From the album: Great Figs of the GoldCoast
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From the album: Great Figs of the GoldCoast
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From the album: Great Figs of the GoldCoast
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From the album: Great Figs of the GoldCoast
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From the album: Great Figs of the GoldCoast
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From the album: Great Figs of the GoldCoast
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From the album: Great Figs of the GoldCoast
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From the album: Great Figs of the GoldCoast
