David oakman
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I want to do the PTI course i did the basic but i keep putting it off because my spelling is bad LAYTYPORUS SULFURUS:001_smile:
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An 026 and an 064 the 026 was only one year old.
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thanx i will stick to 50-1 then its just i have lost two new saws and both where scored and pitted in the pot lack of oil i thought.
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Wanted a 6 inch woodchipper PTO to go on a 70 HP renault tractor what is the best i can i get for that sort of money any ideas anyone?
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Got a new 065 in the book it says 50-1 now £700.00 is a lot of money to waste should i put in 25-1 and play safe?
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Sad news dean, it sounds like you will miss him i feel for his family david.
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Same here andy the times i have fell in a rabbit hole just think what if i had not put the chain brake on.Last year i went to the AA fair and i would never have believed how many people i saw with chainsaw injurys, we can all learn from this which is good but it is even better if it had not hapened.
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SPARASSIS CRISPA cauliflower fungus.
David oakman replied to David oakman's topic in Tree health care
Many thanks david that is it welldone. arbtalk has come up trumps again. i wonder if you know what sort of decay is it a brown rot brittle and cubical? -
Yes steve it was that oak got the high boughs off and dressed the trunk then i cut the butt i used an old chain but still didnt like the flints the root ball came down with a bang but it was a little nervy when the trunk was wider than i am tall:scared1:now i just need to ring it up not it would not be much good for timber most of the trunk is split in two halves.
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About two years ago i had a fungus at the base of a turkey oak and the only thing it could be was as above this year it is back again. Has any one seen sparassis crispa on a broadleaved tree as they should be on conifers this said there are pines near bye. thanks for any info:001_smile:
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Allo allo allo, what's been goin on 'ere then
David oakman replied to David Humphries's topic in Tree health care
Bean cool:001_smile: -
Thanks for posting it just reminds us all to think about the chainsaw and not to take risks, that said i was cutting a large windblow oak under tension bad job i am glad to be home:001_smile: ps get better soon
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What a bu**er i feel like i am going to get the same call myself i am the only forester on a 6000 acre estate and they have no interest in it feels like the agents just want contractors all the time. best of luck mate
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Fracture Pruning Retrenchment on Fulham Oak
David oakman replied to David Humphries's topic in Tree health care
In the park we have a lake with an island in the middle 2 years ago i planted a taxodium natural england did not like it much but imagine in 50 years time when the knees come up in the lake by the way it is now called davids island:001_smile: -
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Yes i have had both on the same tree before.Alsotoday i was driving down the avenue and spotted fistulina about 6 feet up the stem then after lunch i saw some more about 10 feet up the stem, then when i was coming home i spotted anouther one on a pollarded oak roadside growing on the goblet, so after saying i have never seen fistulina above the butt i have now seen several fungi have all gone barmy:001_smile:
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Fracture Pruning Retrenchment on Fulham Oak
David oakman replied to David Humphries's topic in Tree health care
ditto as long as trees are safe keep them going as long as posible and let habitat live in harmony with the trees. By being over tidy we wipe out beetles like the violet click beetle:001_smile: -
Good luck jim
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I get similar on cricket bat willows claw marks running down the base badgers they sharpen their claws:thumbdown:
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You have been busy hannah a lot of walking in the woods cool:001_smile:
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The wet weather has given us a lot of fungi,you dont have to look far the ganoderma has been fruiting all year non stop:thumbdown:
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Ditto david i have never seen polyporus on oak ever in these times you never can be sure of anything:001_smile:
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who owns a woodland?
David oakman replied to firewoodman's topic in Forestry and Woodland management
A few years back they got some rhods and tryed to plant them around the estate but thank goodness they all died did not take to the boulder clay. your plant is lords and ladies do not eat the berries deadly:001_smile: -
who owns a woodland?
David oakman replied to firewoodman's topic in Forestry and Woodland management
Yes you are right about clean woodlands but you do need to clean small areas or glades to bring back woodland wild flowers and they bring back the bees and butterflys. since i have worked here i have brought back early purle orchids in four of my woods in one i had over400 this year,i have now started on a wood clearing it and i have now got some snakes head fratillarys moschatel and herb paris a wood is complex and takes a lot of thought to do the right thing. -
who owns a woodland?
David oakman replied to firewoodman's topic in Forestry and Woodland management
Same here i would love my own woodland i did nearly buy one but i did not. The charcoal burner on grand designs got it right build a log cabin in your own wood live off the nuts and berrys woodburners in every room cool my kind of life by the way has anyone else got hazel nuts this year i cant see any too many squirrels:001_smile:
