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  1. David oakman
    The churches near me get the local arb students in oh dear.
  2. David oakman
    What is the rule in the usa for ppe and the one handed chainsaw user with jeans on or should i say livis a little nick on the leg is the last thing you want.Where i work we had a farm worker chainsawing on the ground with no safety boots on and cut his toes off.
  3. David oakman
    That is very sad poor tree, trees need respect and man to look after them for the better not to do this sort of thing. If you get a chance read some books on victorian tree care they new there stuff.
  4. David oakman
    Ebay here i come as del boy sez i could be a millionaire:001_smile:
  5. David oakman
    No i was not here then but i know all about the three sisters oaks. It would be nice to talk to you about the missing tree and how much work it took. The stump has Armillaria and it runs along all exposed roots around the pond, one is doing well with lovely running buttresses and the outher is standing on a stilt effect on decayed buttresses.Oh the joy of looking after historic veteran trees.
  6. David oakman
    I am sorry you will have to wait, i have not got a didgi camara yet we are very slow here in the countryside only just learnt to use the computer. out of interest my employers bought me the Taxodium as a present when i told them what a lovely tree they were.
  7. David oakman
    Today i checked my metasequoia glyptostroboides its about 30 years old try and sit under one and look up lovely. anouther tree i like are my old hornbeam try and look up and you cant see the sky and trunks with character.Last year i planted a Taxodium on an island in the middle of a lake a shame i wont be alive to see its full glory.
  8. David oakman
    The oxford book of trees 1975 everything you need to know.
  9. David oakman
    A good idea is to go round second hand book shops,charity shops and you will buy some good id tree books. last week i went in a charity shop and bought the arboriculturists handbook for £1 a bargain.
  10. David oakman
    same here i know all this knowledge but when i try to tell someone important it wont come to the front of my brain.
  11. David oakman
    I was looking at a freshly pollarded ash today and it had two inonotus hispidus brackets growing on the underside of the goblet about2 metres up new growth only a few days old.
  12. David oakman
    Greenboy you should know this type of thing. Read trees and shrubs hardy in the british isles by W.J.BEAN 1950 in three volumes,you might get them for a £100.
  13. David oakman
    Let me know what type of lock you get and how secure it is. we should all have locks here to lower premiums.
  14. David oakman
    If i remember rightly it started to die and had compaction work done and fed with good success i might be wrong on this but i do remember reading it somewhere:scared1:
  15. David oakman
    The ginkgo tree was introduced to europe in 1730 and came to england 28 years later.the ginkgo at kew is a male tree but some female twigs were grafted onto it obtained from montpellier in france and was planted in 1762
  16. David oakman
    Interesting this because i have ganoderma on an oak outside my back door with dead brackets black undersides but with new small brackets now starting to grow fresh:scared1:
  17. David oakman
    pete b, the more they got laid, i like the sound of that job ha ha.
  18. David oakman
    when you have as much ganoderma as i have the old fruiting bodies go as black as coal break it open and it is brown inside. like you i have lots of books but best way to learn is to have a lot of types on your trees.my best one is grifola frondosa on some of my old oaks.
  19. David oakman
    Iwould say ganoderma adspersum fruiting bodies grow at stem base and very rarely high. interestingly i have just found a turkey oak with inonotus dryadeus at the butt and inonotus hispidus about 2-3 metres high. ps it is only quercus cerris.
  20. David oakman
    I thought phellinus igniarius was a top rotter and to quote i found this on a beech on the buttress.
  21. David oakman
    Looks like ganoderma to me i just went and looked at the old fruiting bodies on my old beech and picture looks very similar:001_smile:
  22. David oakman

    Gps

    David oakman posted a topic in General chat

    I am looking to buy a gps grid ref for daily risk ass. also grid ref for hazardous trees so as i report them it is closer than reading off a map. also i have been asked to survey and record ancient,veteran trees and also do a count of all trees young and old and count the stock in our 400 acre park. with a small gps i can plot on to my parkland maps. it will be nice to know the ratio between young,mature and veterans. Can anyone recomend a good cheap gps with 8 or 10 didget grid ref.
  23. David oakman
    Working on mostly old oak i have to sharpen my chains through the day keeping sharp but on a wet day i do re-set them on a grinder and i finish off with a file extra sharpe that way.all my chains are used to nothing left unless some one left the metal park guards on and the tree grew round them.:cussing:
  24. David oakman
    Isaw a picture of an oak tree in the same situation as this one on a building site, sadly it died.
  25. David oakman
    done:001_cool:

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