Will Hinchliffe

Doesn't come close to the 3120 in my opinion.

Any more photos ? Looks like fun. Are you allowed to wear gloves in the footlock comp?

I still have a colony ( I hope) probably going to open them up and clean out the hive this weekend.

If the crane is able to lift a man basket then it is fine to ride the crane up.

We have one old faltimier and one proclimber cube. The proclimber collapses in the wind. Does the Stien one hold up in the wind as well as the faltimer ?

Blow my mind man I feel ready to loose my illusions.

I don't get how it works. Will my friction hitch self tend as well as with the hitch climber and can i use it wthout a spliced eye? Do I need an oval caribenner and does it work with the new yale acid blamonge pole 7.4 mm friction string. Which hole does it go in and is Lubrication required. Moo Ha Ha ha ha

Ha Ha bob you know he is 10 times the climber you are:001_tongue:. When he is really going for it I cant match him.

Really nice Dan. Is it common walnut or am I way Off

Totally agree but what do we know about art! I just want to get up close with a magnifying glass

Matt is now the hardest working man in Wiltshire !! I don't think we will ever get another project like that to get involved with but we always have interesting jobs on. If you wanted to form some links with the college I am sure John would be interested. SBTC I also expected a slightly different final piece but you have to appreciate the time frame they had to complete the project. The finish on the final piece is absolutely incredible. I hope the piece will be enjoyed by many. The artists did the tree proud. Mistert I have ditched the dubious balistics for some more stylish ones now.

Thats a great video! So where is England's tallest tree and how high is it ?

In September we took down a tree for an installation at the Natural History museum. I talked about it here:http://arbtalk.co.uk/forum/showthread.php?t=3449 I went to the opening last night. The link below explains it and there is also a video with some clips of us dismantling the tree. http://www.nhm.ac.uk/about-us/news/2009/march/tree-in-the-ceiling-unveiled.html If you get a chance go and see it. Its a beautiful piece of wood but its a bit of a shame you cant get up close to it with a magnifying glass. I feel very honoured to have been the climber for this project.

Cool trucks. I did my Rfs at Lackham with Amy and Adam. Say hello from me. My names Will by the way.

Nice day for it and great photos. I obviously cant see everything that's going on from the photos, but with three upright stems like that I would stick the pulley in the middle one and top rope 5 meter lengths off; step cuts towards the pulley, get the groundy to snap them off with the lowering rope. Much quicker then chogging. And you can then split them into billets. I also give good advise on sucking eggs but only to grandmas.

Nice work, lovely day for it. Were you up ridiculously early or was the mist just hanging around?

It needs a chimney a wooden back door and some purple curtains with Celtic knots on:001_tongue:

Facebook is a mine field of ex girlfriends and people who keep posting pictures of me in disgusting states.

XTC gets you high!

Research on the overall effect is difficult because trees are so long lived. We probably will only ever have theories on how the long term effects of pruning is influenced by pruning timing. If a tree is healthy and has a favourable mass energy ratio (excuse my Shigo) it should be able to recover its stored starch after a sensible reduction irrespective of the timing of the pruning. Its more about the amount of material removed, in particular stored starch. Older Beech trees have a low capacity for producing dormant buds so target pruning is the most effective way to go about reducing them. They don't really respond very well to 046's. When revisiting previously reduced beech trees we often notice that when dominant (primary) branches have been removed by what I would call acceptable topping cuts there is often die back. We try to compensate for this by making are cuts steeper making a larger longer more elliptical wound, but this rarely really occludes unless the growth point cut to is close to half the girth of the primary branch. I think a lot of good data could be gathered by training a load of us climbing arborists to do simple starch counts using iodine stains and collecting data on trees throughout the year before and after pruning. I don't know what questions it would be aimed at answering but a good data set could actually make a paper backed up by research.

Im going to go. I will try and drag my workmates along to.

Nice link Dave. Thanks. The Lichen section was particularly interesting. Very similar to the topics covered on the botany course I took at Aberystwyth. I think using microscopy and molecular techniques it would be possible to monitor changes in fungal communities in the soil after inoculation with commercially available spores. The problem would be getting funding for it. The company's that produce these inoculation mixes are willing to carry out research to show enhanced growth rates because it helps them market there product. If it was shown that inoculating plants/soils with a generic mix of fungi was having a negative effect on fungal diversity and breaking up plant fungi interactions already in place then it would make people think twice about using them. We all know about the negative effects fertilisers have on miccorhizae. Like you said these interactions are very delicate. Even using an airspade to cultivate/ decompact the soil around an veteran tree will break up hyhae and have an impact on the dynamics of the fungal community.

Daldinia concentrica is King alfreds cakes. They are the ones that you can start fires with when they are dry. Fommes is the horses hoof fungus and piptoporus is the razor strop fungi. Stick with the scientific names if you can.

Its supposed to be quite rare in the south and more common up north.

The research does not consider the effect on the indigenous fungal communities.