David oakman
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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: -
Yes i have got rats at home and at the woodyard,i am using fenn traps at home and the king charles tells me when i have got one he wont stop barking at it until i empty it lol. at the woodyard i dont really bother to much unless they get to bad then i set traps and poison.:thumbdown:ps i hate rats.
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Was it my pond jay? sorry about the other day i was not getting at you or chris but i had a bad week and the estate will not help, if you see chris before me say sorry. david
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I found an old oak about a month ago it has a c stem hollow and has fallen to the ground forming an arch but because it was hidden in a thicket and nobody saw it it started to grow upright from the crown, now it has this crown on a crown effect it looks to heavy, but i think i will leave it its doing what it does in its own way:001_smile:
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Leave alone she has had a good life, all old oak trees are she because they are wonderful. mind you i have got one oak which i call my old man:001_smile:
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cool:001_cool:
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Some more poplar firewood to mix in with the good stuff nice pics:001_smile:
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Ahh oak smoked gammon:001_smile:
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Good points dean i think i may have been a naughty boy and i fly in full revs and off i go:ohmy:
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I have got a wind blown oak in what is called the oak grove and in the root plate are huge fistulina also walking along the gll a river looking in the running root systems fistulina. Also this week i have had a spate of new latiporus.
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Styhl oil 50-1 petrol comes in a tanker to our own pump:blushing:
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Husky d you are right it was a 260 but yes the 064 was old:001_smile:
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The 064 was 9 years old so had a nice life:001_smile:but the026 was only about 1 year if that but i dont want my new one to go wrong if it would be better to go back to 25-1.
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Stihl 064 went today new one will be about 800 quid and a 026 in both the pistons were wore up and scratched and pitted.
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I have had two new chainsaws and both have blown up after only a short time using 50-1 fuel mix do you think it is a lack of oil and should i still be using 25-1?
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Just been for a walk at the hall gardens and just found inonotus hispidus on an old apple tree in the apple walk with all the people walking underneath oh dear am i covered as i do not work weekends:ohmy:
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Yes i thought i would check into this one i can clearly see you are right david and it is defo fistulina but strouts and winter say it is a root and butt rotter as i mostly see it,claus mattheck said stem base seldom higher in the stem,and david lonsdale said stem base or higher up at wounds or broken branches. As tony said rupe wants to know what to do with his turkey,well i have a policy right or wrong the tree always comes first so i reduse all my oak trees to a safe hieght for the thickness of stem wall being as safe as i can but keeping the tree as i have said before how can you replace 600 years of history,i bet i have got you all going now:scared1:
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Early decay progression of I. hispidus
David oakman replied to David Humphries's topic in Fungi Pictures
Nice one david, i must get myself a didgi cam but times are very hard at the moment it may have to be a christmas present. However there is a lot here you would all like to see:001_smile: -
Sorry nice pics of your fistulina david time for a reduction on that oak looks like bottle butt starting or tyre bulges to much wieght on a weak stem.
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I have never seen fistulia hepitica above 1m high 90% of the time it is right on the butt or in the root system by the river. yesterday i spotted inonotus hispidus 4m up on english oak right beside the road, i have not checked it yet i was flying by in a hurry but i will let you all know if it checks out:001_smile:
