Will Hinchliffe

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Here is a photo of a death cap I found growing under a hornbeam. Is yours a Destroying angel ?

I have seen it on pieces of fallen oak. On one piece I have seen fruiting bodies for the past 3 years. I also believe you can buy Laetepourous spores to inoculate logs with so you can grow it to eat without destroying wild brackets.

I just found some bona fide information on this project. The artists name is Tania Kovat and here is a link to an article written about it in June. http://www.nhm.ac.uk/about-us/news/2008/june/darwins-canopy-artwork-selected.html

Go for a walk and take your tree ID book. Identify any tree you dont know. Try and find characteristics that give you a really positive ID.

That is awful. Very sad.

Great photos Pablo. I think the first one is a young Polypourous squamosus.

Cheers. Hope you get a good one of your stinkhorn.

Yes I know I feel really bad that I don't know their second names. I wanted to make it known that other people were involved. I personally have no problem with the removal of the tree. Lorry loads of oak go for timber and firewood from this woodland every year. Good woodland management has to maintain a diverse age structure. Continuous cover forestry requires that you create gaps to allow regeneration. If the tree had been a relic of the woodland that existed on the site before it was replanted in around 1800 it would be a different matter.

It was a plantation tree. The woodland is managed under continuous cover. The tree was picked because it was healthy and had no bat roosts. Typical selfish outlook who has?

The Ink cap was taken at Westonbirt, the chicken of the woods on the oak was taken at Longleat and the fungi on the birch was taken on the Stourhead estate.

We just took down a big Oak in the middle of the woods for a very exciting new project. The oak was 200 years old and about 30m tall. The tree is going to be cut into huge vertical cross sections and milled to 4mm thick then stuck to a aluminium board and hung in the Natural History Museum. We left the tree as a standing trunk. Tomorrow the roots will be dug out and severed then the stem and roots winched over. A 4mm cross section of the roots will be included. We had to lower and number everything that is to be included in the piece. Which was not a problem but we did have to step cut everything so minimum matarial was lost. The project is the brain child of a lady called Tanya and she is working closely with a man called Mike. They were great to work with and I wish them the best luck with the rest of the project. Sorry no photos I was climbing. It was however filmed by a professional crew for a video on the NHM website. I will post a link when it is up. :001_cool: I feel incredibly honoured to have been involved in it and cant wait to see it.

When you put the chain/ sling on vertical sections put the hook (facing to the ground) or choker of the sling on the side that you are going to do the first cut of your step cut so the driver can raise the piece to break the step cut. Dont do the step cut so he has to slew to break it. Get your step cuts really close to make it easy for the crane to break. I have only climbed on two crane jobs but they went smooth as clock work thanks to having excellent crane drivers and advise from my boss. Have fun and go large. If the drivers happy with it attach your climbing system to the crane and get him to lift you above the tree then you can lower yourself onto the tree. Its great. Wedges are good as well if you want to make the step cuts really close to the edge. Take loads of photos:001_cool:

topping, lopping ?

Nice Jobs Pete and logologist.

This happened to the guy I was working with 1 year ago. He fell about 40ft and suffered some very nasty injuries. Everyone who uses this knot should be aware that care must be taken.

Saw them at the AA show, they looked good.

Monkeyd: Its a council owned Nature Reserve / Playing field. We were asked to fell it or make it safe. We did it because we thought it was appropriate. Don't know what the council thought of it. The vegetation underneath it dosnt get mowed so will keep people away from it. Mark84 Thanks very much. If you spot us again pop over and say hello.

Here you go mark. We do get some nice work. It was a daft place to build some houses. The tops are dead. All the crown was lowered then the stems removed by Crane and loaded into Grain trailers on tractors. Both crowns out in two days and the crane in for one day. I think we even had an early finish.

Yes that was us. Im on one of them in my Avatar picture. .

What about milling it with a chainsaw mill?

In the woods near us they high prune the Douglas to increase the timber value. They used to employ some one full-time to do this with a pole saw. My Boss has some open grown Douglas that he planked and has someone interested in buying it. The price I was told for the planked timber was £18 a Cubic foot. I think Douglas is fantastic wood and well worth saving.

This is a really good resource for all things apple: http://www.orangepippin.com/ Of particular interest (but nothing to do with this thread) is the Articles on own root apple trees. I think the best thing you can do with the old pear is to propagate a new tree from it and plant it in the Orchard. Then you can feel safe that the genetics of the tree will not be lost and it will allow you to leave the tree alone to age naturally, if appropriate. If you have to prune the tree I think thinning/reducing it gradually over a number of years would be better for it than doing it all in one go.

Very good, yes its Hilperton church. We are based in Warminster where are you based mark84?