David oakman
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Clever man i wish you lived nearer you could service all my saws and strimmers as a mechanic i am not, i would like to learn i will have to read drivelinks web site:001_smile:
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Good points walker i would not always save, i was walking in a wood full of maiden hazel very nice but we all know that the life of these hazel is about 60 years and if coppiced regularly hazel can live anything up to 1000 years. also the wildlife is safe for longer. something i only just learnt hazel does not produce nuts in the shade so you need to keep it coppiced for mr dormice.
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Yes the ganoderma is rather high i felled a red oak with ganoderma the same as that. i have also got some beech with ganoderma very similar to yours but no targets at all so will be left,but the interesting point i am coming to is the side the ganoderma is growing the tree has total dieback the rest of the tree is full of vigour proving that the ganoderma decays the heartwood and the sapwood. but as i saw in windsor forest beech hold on to the very end. I can see from posts that there seems to be two sides to this sort of work people like myself who work for someone would save a tree everytime for as long as posible or SULE. but others who work for themselves would fell:scared1:
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No not disco music, the 80s was new romantics long hair with a little bit of makeup on the men like adam ant and tears for fears ect:001_smile:
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Official "Yank'" Picture Thread
David oakman replied to GASoline71's topic in International Arborist Forum
Wow what a forest and trees. but i would rather look up than look down.apart from the crick in the neck. -
Nice video mike:001_cool:
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i thought paul young came from ipswich no thats wrong i think it was nick kershaw. the music of the 80s was the best ever i was a dj with a mobile disco 1980-1984 and i still have the 1000 plus singles under the stairs with some twelve inch as well. the best disco i did was for the ITFC new years ball with mariner wark ect.
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I went to the wood carving championships 50 of them 1 piece of timber each different types of wood and 4 days wow you should see what they produced,the carvings were auctioned off for charity one or two of them feched about £3000.
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If you are felling say a large oak cut in the gob pop the saw through the hinge and just pivet it left to right you will lose a small amount of hinge but take away a lot of centre wood because with extra large trees when you put the felling cut in the last thing you want is a tree of that size standing and will not go over because it is held by a small amount of wood in the centre far better to take it out while the tree is safe.:001_smile:
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do you know andy i was born in 1962 and i have never eaten rabbit allways had beef and lamb yummy:001_smile:
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i dont know where the wages come from but here goes. my first wage was £19.00 and one gallon of fuel with two shots of oil for my fizzie was 90p paid mum £10. i also agree with you lee the old days were best people do not have time for anything or anyone,back in your 70s we were all a lot happier i think, life now is to fast and stressful.
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well done lee it all seems like yesteray. i left stow high school in 1978 been in suffolk all my life, abba made me remember ihave been married 21 years tomoz and my wife wants to go and see mamma mia and go for a meal maybe no arbtalk tommorrow.
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steve i am 46 half way to his 81 and he tells me the second half goes like greased lightning oh dear.
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Today i went to visit the retired gamekeeper in hospital he is 81 as wise as they come. he got me thinking how short life is, he said do things you enjoy so fellow arbtalkers enjoy working on and with trees and remember make each day count.
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well done steve and moderators:001_smile:
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sorry to be dumb but who or what are mods steve?
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i camped in a veteren oak last week when the wife kicked me out for talking trees to much.
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Tis the season to see Fungi, fa la la la la....
David oakman replied to David Humphries's topic in Fungi Pictures
today i have seen, collybia fusipes,ganoderma adspersum, inonotus dryadeus, laetiporus sulphurus,pholiota squarrosa,inonotus hispidus and polyporus squamosus not bad for one day but i was looking for them doing hazard assessments before an event:thumbdown: -
The old forester on the estate told me oak hit by lightning wont burn so i thought he must be right. then i had a large oak hit and died icut it up seasoned for two years and on the wood burner burned red hot.thinking about it what does lightning do it has to get to the ground takes the softest route the sap wood heats the sap which explodes. how can this render the wood useless? by the way when lightning strikes a hollow tree it runs down the inside round and round this is why hollow trees are burnt inside?
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now can you see why we need ppe.
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well done keep it going. i am learning all the time. my wife loves arbtalk as she does not have to listen to me talking about trees every night. good one steve.
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Good post thanks more of this and less of the jokes.well done:001_smile:
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Laetiporus sulphureus my wife was in a london market and she said chicken of the woods was fetching a very good price. very tasty for breakfast fried in butter:ohmy:
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I have not seen Ganodera on an ash, not saying that it dosnt. last week i had a large ash fall over a public footpath large brackets of polyporus all wood a butt soft. also isaw a horse chestnut in a churchyard topped for safety reasons the following year all cuts had large brackets of polyporus. where i work Ganoderma seems to be in small areas, but last year i had Ganoderma Resanacium appear but where did that come from as that is the only one. fungal spores how far do they travel who knows? I have mostly oak and the oak does stop ganoderma and survive,sorry imust point out i mean english oak, red oaks no go the ganoderma spreads from the butt and climbs up to a meter high by that time the tree is pulp.
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Cool pics, i have got a large oak to come down in a confined space i wonder if the RAF will come in with a linx or some sort of helicopter and help me:thumbup1:
