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David oakman

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  1. Andy i like, how much did it cost to make? i also like the hitch on the back so you can take anouther trailor with tools ect in good idea. i recognise the brickwork on your house but cant put my finger on it.
  2. Burn it:blushing:
  3. Ihave not seen any A indica with bleeding cankers but mine have got leaf minors and i too thought they were resistant.
  4. Ihave started looking at my veteran horse chestnuts and 4 so far have bad bleeding cankers oozing the light brown and the dark brown fluid not a good start i hope it gets better as i go round.
  5. Give up your day job dean and become a nanny:ohmy:
  6. Yep to leave as a standing stone maybe?
  7. Cool. i was also looking at all the big dead oak trees on the roadside, i wonder why they are left is it for concervation or lack of money by the landowners.
  8. where abouts are you bundle2?
  9. I was in bintree today to visit my mum and we went to reepham and went for a walk along the disused railway track what a lot of pole ash just right for firewood how many of you norfolkians know the place i was at?
  10. jay why dont you take a little more time and carve a pidgeon or a barn owl:001_cool:
  11. Fellow tree worker told me to give the site a look and i got hooked:001_cool:
  12. I have also got veteran HC i must try and find time to check them all for bleeding canker ialso have red and indian but i dont think they are affected by the BC or the leaf miner mind you i have noticed a few spots on the reds:ohmy:
  13. Spencer is my middle name same as my dad,grandad and uncles all got the same middle name.
  14. When you next go to a bleeding canker take a wiff of the fluid it stinks:thumbdown:
  15. I have got a large horse chestnut with bleeding canker phoned the FC and they said i will need to check my stock of chestnuts iam on a 6000 acre estate with hundreds of horse chestnuts where do you start:ohmy:
  16. Well done dean i told my 17 year old daughter your tale and she was very sad for the old man and said what sort of people would do that old people diserve our respect for the life they have lived.
  17. In our local churchyard we have a weeping ash (pendulata) i think this also has to be grafted onto F exselsior i was thinking of having a go has anyone ever tried?with what sucess.
  18. I give up i will tell you what i got my wife for our 21st a turned vase made from a sweet chestnut burr from sandringham very nice and she liked it too.
  19. A new car with ARBTALK written on it.
  20. So you dont agree with ted greens bucket of worms then? How about the worry of disease from the mulch?
  21. boo hoo:001_smile:
  22. She is in a horse paddock oh dear. I have now fenced her off but she must be well compacted i have just grown 50 saplings from her seed they are now 2 years old so i will plant a couple near her to carry on when she dies the trouble here in the park is deer try growing trees with browsing deer reds and fallow:ohmy:
  23. WOOD you gave her wood ive won ive won yippee:sneaky2:
  24. CRIMINAL:thumbdown:
  25. Bacterial wetwood when i started on this estate they used to leave tree guards on till they split but this causes bacterial wetwood and the bark is soft as this hardens gases build behind the bark and explodes leaving a wound.

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