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Cheers for the input! Do any of you have before and after pictures? I like pictures....

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMrqBldlqzA&feature=channel]YouTube - Fleet Foxes - Tiger Mountain Peasant Song (Cover)[/ame] Two Swedish sisters from Stockholm touring UK and the States at the moment...

Looking to get a new saw to replace the Husqvarna 362xp.... I´m a bit of a Stihlman so thinking of getting one for the company. I have used the 036 a lot and was well pleased with it. How is the new 262? Similar or less power? Any oldtimers thats in the know? Anyone got anything to say about the saw, performance, weight, colour....?

I thought you said light THAT fuse.....ops:blushing:

Thanks Monkey-D your input is very valuable! Firsthand experience is in my opinion the best. I appreciate that people who make a living out off these practises might be reluctant to reveal all their knowledge that has been obtained through experience. It would be intresting to see some results on airspading, especailly after a few years....the one thing that would be the most intresting would be to se a decompaction after say five years, beeing examined with an airspade! My collegue has been involved with several reconstructions of planting pits in urban areas. Street trees with small plantingpits in hard surface has been cleared of all soil and rebuilt with new porous "skeleton"-soil. The method has been to blast all the soil to break it up and then use vaccum-excavating to suck all the soil away. Big rocks to carry heavy weight of traffic has been added and then the space between the rocks has been filled with new soil...growing rate has been tremendous! Rootsystem has fully recovered and beyond!!! But this work has only been carried out in the worst conditions in citycentres, it would be intresting to hear about similar positive outcome from decompaction and trenching.

Thanks Bundle! I will, as with many threads, follow this one closely... I will meet up with one of Swedens (if not Europe) most experienced rootproblem and treerevitalisation experts in the end of the month... Will speek to him about this and see if I can come back with some info. I know nothing about this first hand, I have only heard about other peioples experiences but I´m keen to try some for myself. I have got a few trees that could do with a decompaction and vitalisation.. It would be nice to hear Lee Winger and BatiArbs opinions on this subject!

Well please do! I would like to know more of the blasting, I know fineroots are being shot to treeheaven, but they are plentifull after a year of treatment with shootextensions of 30-50 cm so it cant be that bad. But as you said...another thread...

Eye opener there...thanks Monkey-D! I think i have to spped up things for my homemade airspade...talked to a guy who made his a couple of years ago. Apparently its the "Mother... of all..." airspade:thumbup: He blasts some serious amounts of soil with it and no rootdamage.... I could well blast a few planting pits while Im at it:biggrin: Definatly do the sides in a planting pit whenever a tree spade is beeing used would be beneficia.

Experience from Germany shows its beneficial if the tree has the same facing as before, if that cant be achived then a wrapping of hessian is very good. Some problems with sunscald may be avoided and the tree suffers less from the relocation stress. The way they transplant trees is in my opinion the best way and a bit more expensive, but growing rate in the first years shows that they are on the right track. They take out the new hole with the spade and then a mini digger expands the hole 1 m in diameter, put the tree down and add a porous soil (pumice and lava has been trialed) with good water and air content around the tree after a proper rootpruning. The area around the tree is called "rehabilitationzone" and normally after a growwing season the whole area is full of fine roots. Its important to break up the sides of the pit to make sure the tree doesent get "potted" PLENTY of water is needed first 2-3 years. I know relocation has been "sucsessfull" without these extravagaza measures...but I'm looking at trees in my hometown that has been moved some 20 years ago and they are still suffering from stress...with impaired growingrate:thumbdown: Yes they are still alive, but.... Hopefully I will be involved in a big moving project next year. 20 lime trees with 80-100 cm is hopefully beeing relocated due to development.

NO! It´s called "Humble encouragement":001_tongue: Yeah so jealous... Found a Hericium corraloides though!!!! In my hometown last weekend at the old shooting range, growing on a Balsampoplar on the floor. Pity it was past its best, but will have a look next year as apparently it has been there the last 2 years.

What sort of money are we talking? Ballpark figure?

No dont worry, we learn a lot from you Master Dryad, and dont forget the silent followers.... The ones too shy to ask! By all means do state the obvious!

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Shake hands with danger...

Allison Krauss and the Union Station aint bad at all... Larkin Poe isnt bad either:thumbup:! [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKqA3EFgxWA]YouTube - LARKIN POE - LONG HARD FALL[/ame]

It just proves that veteran trees are valuable too, not just aestethically pleasing to the eye trees. (Even a multipinter gets pulled once in a while...) Thanks for your kind words Josh!

Welcome Minas! Good to see you here aswell!!! Hope youre well and keeping up the good job. (As Tony was saying....) I would start with the soil and see if I could improve that for a start. Next step would be to add porous material as pumice or lava (if that is available in Greece?) to enhance gas exchange and thus solve the aeration problem. If you put in a artificial aeration you might encounter drought instread... Tell us more about the site and I´m sure someone will help you to the best solution. Tony knows his aeration...

Sorry for hijacking... but couldnt really find a better place to post this. Found this, thanks to Sean Freeman and the Veteran treegroup in Australia. A good read indeed! Fungi, trees and pollards

The ability to spot a fb from a 1000 yards?

Very nice! Looks so much better and sort of tells people that NO we havent forgotten the logs here they are supposed to be here! Wery aestethical. A sign is always good too, pity with all the analphabetics though.

I assumed they were just dressed up poshlooking royalchickens.... A bit like the arbs wearing tuxedos... But the fences gave me the solution to the problem. (is it now you gonna give me the fencing-act talk?)

Not sure what you mean...I have followed the trials with porous soils for over ten years and the results has been astonishing. It would be great if the tree responds as I want it to, otherwise it will be the most expensive monolith known to man:blushing:

All the soil around the tree will be removed and replaced with a oak and maple leafcompost that has been sitting unused in our yard for some years. The road will be built with a porous layer of rock, that will allow roots to grow under the road if there is any roots in the outer perimeter. The managment plan at the moment is just annual survey to record any changes in safety, but my aim is to enhance vitality and see if the tree can produce a lower crown and at a later stage allowing a reduction to fight the inevitable collapse due to fungal precense. A fence will be erected to protect the tree and its roots, probably with the addition of chicken wire -Hampstead Heath style, to keep the leaf-litter in place and thus providing material for high bioactivity and nutrients.

Hamalab is a great company name! Is that in ChezHama or is it downstairs in the Hamacave?