Patchwork
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hmmm, i think i understand now. sounds like a dead end job what ever you do to make it look better...
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can u just not take the stubs off? had it been reduced in the in the past but not taken back to any growth points?
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also im not denying propper pollarding techniques increase tree vitality and life but this isnt the same...
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yeah i understand urban trees, but he is pollarding feild trees that are perfectly healthy and doing fine on their own. also when it comes to urban trees he seems to be putting "reduce to 4m" on every thing. most of the time were just leaving trees as a 4m stem with no branches and its exacly what he wants. did it on another 4 false acacias and an ash today, all they would have needed was a crown reduction and thin, basically cos its a council contract any one who makes a stupid complaint about a tree like "its dropping leaves" the tree turns into a 4m stem. its really really winding me up now
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hmmm had to learn around 250 trees/latin names at the nat dip course at merrist wood. somhow i came out with an average score of 98%
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Latley the tree officer working on our council contract seems to have gone pollard mad, havent had a reduction or thinnng job for weeks, seems every thing we do is pollard or reduce to 4m. had to pollard a perfectly healthy large goat willow that was next to a river not a danger to any one pollard to crown break at around 4-5m just cos some old guy complained some kids had started building a tree house, when i asked the tree officer why we were buchering the tree he started talking about heritage and it seems the fate of atleast 15 other trees down the river bank are to be done as well. starting to feel pretty crap at the end of the week now...
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I want one of these - need a helicopter first
Patchwork replied to christreeroot's topic in General chat
oh my god, they say their is a fine line between a madman and a genious the guy who came up this this is a perfect example -
got beasted on my first day at work like that they called it the reverse butterfly, in the warehouse over a beam, hoisted 2m off the ground and spun around till i was about to throw up.
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wha the hell, why was his gob so small? their looked to be some heartwood decay in the stem as well when it went over!??! maby that played a part
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i think using both ends of ur rope was a technique introduced by the tutor Jack Kenyon at merrist wood, when i went their they always prefered us to use this instead of just work positioning when u want to set a higher anchor, maby their just proud it was first used at the merrist wood?!? i stopped using that way of climbing when i was attending after a few months and they didnt have a problem with it.
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go with stretch airs, so comfortable and yeah a bit heavy which is due to the kevlar knee and ankle pads, but no thorn is gonna get through that. + low crotch = gangstar .
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mid week i was standing in a flooded, very fast running river in waders getting fallenbranches out form a willow, half way through the day stumbled on a rock and the waders filled to the brim with murky water... wasnt a very good day
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go with honeys, nice people and reliable a a sure thing
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yeah i totally understand what you mean in ur last post, maby the reason a poor pruning cut or a flush cut heals badley, is due to the tree using energy in creating walls 1 2 and 3, also the fact that bacteria will infect the tissue used for callus/woundwood would definatly disrupt the cells ability to form callus?
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i dont really have a problem, just rambeling really.
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ya, i stopped clipping the end of my flipline onto my harness, when i dismantled a maple the other week, cut a branch out and i became a human rigging line. scared me a little to say the least...
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iv seen it alot latley, u open ur paper and its knife crime this, terror plot that. and since when was it in the interst of a paper like the mail to report 100% un-bias facts?
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yeah i understand the basics of CODIT and the "trees dont heal they seal" principle put foward by Shigo. but i just am finding it hard when looking deeply into the callus/woundwood diffrence. i understand how their structure is diffrent but i would like to be able to tell a visual diffrence. so the meristematic cells in the symplast are almost like stem cells in mammels, they can become any specific cellular structure in the plant? also about removing branches at the collar and BBR, surley callus is what starts the process of sealing a wound, but then it develops into woundwood, i thought the same was true for any sealing of a wound on a tree. the way i see it is callus is the trigger of woundwood forming, the match to the fuse so to speak.
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haha, i ment in genral. seems the media has turned into some sort of house of horrors, hell bent on scaring the sense out of people in their everyday lives.
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the mail seems intent of scaring the **** out everyday people. now the people who read it have yet another worry
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ok so when looking at a tree that is recovering from a wound, u can say "this is callus and this is woundwood" to be specific you would have to look at the cells structured within the tissue? so what is the easy way round it? to just call the new growth over a wound, woundwood?
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or is callus only function to trigger the growth of woundwood? the woundwood is what actually starts to cover and eventually close wounds?
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Ok so iv been reading up about callus and woundwood, just as a basic understanding. but now have got way to into it. Some things im finding hard to understand, ill give you a overview of what i think happens please correct me on places i go wrong. When a tree is wounded it creats walls 1 2 and 3. at the edges of the wound where living tissue meets dead tissue, the pressure is released on the living cells which then start to divide. This is known as callus. as the cells divide more and more taking up room they start to specifically form unordered fibers and vessels, the avaliable chemicals in these vessels and fibers start to become tough lignin, creating woundwood. Wound wood is the wood that exists above the wound of the tree. the question i have is while the tree is creating more tissue to cover the wound, is the advancing tissue callus? and as it moves on the callus becomes woundwood? is woundwood the thing that dose the actual growing or is that callus?
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be my guest.
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Please do, and of any of the other airwalk videos u have released. cheers
