Bob Rolfe

It coming down on account the shaggy "Pholiota" Bob ?

Well it is and it isn't ..... It's due to be felled in the next 6mths or so along with 3 others but due to the large amount of the fungi at the bottom and the fact that there's areally big crematorium well within the target zone it's got the x of death for next week

love the picture on the wall, how does it compare to a real fire?

I've been chopping and flopping

Trees for the past 17 yrs or so and finally making the change to a

Log fire is the best and it's hot ... Real hot

Pholiota squarrosa

Shame about this big old ash it's gonna have to bite the dust next week ... But hey it's winter and I doubt much of that's gonna be wasted not if I'm gonna be feeding this baby for the next 6 months

Yer not gonna believe this but I caught a dirty great big one last night and the wife said "quick throw it out of the window " i walked down stairs and chucked it out the front door. She replied "why didn't you throw it out of the window - oh! I know they can't fly can they" lol When my darlin comes out with corkers like that I remember why I married her, I cried laughing for 15 mins well she said it might of broke it's legs lol lol lol lol my side hurts lol lol

Does it say if he was a giver or a taker cause I think in this case it may make a difference lol

Looks like it's going to be a good year for fungi

What are the larger fungi immediately around the tree base, out of interest?

Sorry Janey they were more of the same

Just looked em up Dave I think you nailed em

Really neat the way the followed the root system Dave wish I could of got a picture from 30ft above !

Bet you had fun tipping that as well. I remember when we

Had a 5.5 t iveco tipper if you got a proper load on you had to reverse fast and jam the brakes on whilst yer finger was on the tip switch lol although the pto version of he 6.5t was the dogs kergeebers it never let you down even had the lads pushing the back up if there was no room for a run up .

found these little ink caps around this dead Prunus today i liked the way they follow the dead roots! got some pics off of them on the iphone too.... when it stopped raining they looked a lot like Coprinellus Micaceus (The glistening ink cap) and were obviously living off the dead wood but these were tiny and didn't really shimmer at all, anybody got any better ideas wot they are

I don't know what yer all on about I think I looks good! Though the price is a little steep!

Hey I got it nearly right just 90kg out

Not sure what the weight of the

vehicle unladen is but the load must weight around 2.7 t the vehicle looks to be around a ton and a half over weight

anybody know what's the best tree identification app on the iPhone I've have 3 and there all rubbish complete and utter tosh

I've got bees in the loft.. I think there ace, they was in the garden but we got flooded and the dog kept Trying to dig them up but actually it looks like they've taken to higher ground

There no trouble at All

Ladybird larva

LOL- theres quite a long way between N.Z and Salford!!

Lol local authority ....you know what I mean yer just Mickey taking

Trust me when I say that LA pruning trees just to get a good view is not the norm.... I'm inspecting for Salford LA at the moment and there isn't the money in the pot to get that sort of work undertaken regular as part of policy .....it's just not there! and I don't think there are many authorities out there with spare dosh for that sort of work

Look chaps, you know and I know and I know you know that using spikes for pruning is just wrong. And it's a lazy climber that does !!

My dilema with the foraying edible scenario is that i just find them so naturaly artistic and wonderful, to take them and eat them would be a form of blasphemy or sacrilige.

 

Though having experienced first hand just how good it can be, i do fully appreciate why the europeans do it as though the woods where the supermarket.

 

we brits are a paranoid bunch of freaks who think meat comes as pink stuff wrapped in plastic and was NEVER a sweet faced lambikin! as for going into the woods and picking a wild shroom, heaven forbid no!

We Brits have an in built nervousness where fungi are concerned ..I believe it dates back to pagans and Druids where fungi were given to the villagers namely psilocybes and and amanita which evoke hallucinating properties so the Druids propagated the story all fungi were under the control of the Druids which use them for tree own purpose

What is it with you load freaky tall people my hypothesis is that any person over 5.5 ft has got to have alien DNA in his Or her body just look at the height of the doors on ye old pubs Thats because the height of the average person was quiet a bit smaller than you lot evolution takes millions of years you lot did it in just a couple of hundred years you've all got impure DNA that's the only answer..........oh

5.2 and a tad under 10.10st cause I give up smoking I'm a little rotund but back to the original question yep yer a little to far towards to to large side to climb all trees but not all in my opinion but if to fancy doing some 5 -10 pecent reducing on an ash, robinia or lime say send in the pics pls

At a wild guess I'd say Phytophthora but from the pics it is a wild guess really. If you can see any darkened weepy patches it possibly is as it's quite common on chestnuts at the moment

I know gardener love pottering over herbaceous gardens and sculptured box hedges or pretty arrangements of a few daffs or roses but personally I think that the natural world beats it all hands down and this shot is just one of a number that proves the point

I've just sent my super the info on the igland 55 and 65h it looks like the on that we are thinking of laying to rest. It's had some welding do to it but the piece that's been welded has been done wrong so it got to be all undone and rewelded so as was pointed out at the start of all this it may be better to invest in a new piece of kit seen as this one is a little old and tired. Also after all the welding it going to have to go to an engineer to have An inspection to determine the safety of the welds and so on....... So it's a case of get yer hands in yer pocket and buy the kit !