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  1. Alinicoll
    All I've ever done is take the spikes off and sharpen them with a chainsaw flat file. I can't say it's something that happens very often unless they hit something hard like rock, they don't need to be super sharp just not blunt.
  2. Alinicoll
    Cynipidae is the family so a knopper is a Cynidid. Some start out from root galls and move up the same tree to make galls in the canopy. Others like the knopper require two seperate species. They're strange little creatures.
  3. Alinicoll
    Did the tree completely defoliate or just drop some leaves? The foliage you have shown looks healthy and the quantity of twigs shown would not be unusual in my opinion. The fruit like objects are oak apples produced by the lava of certain Cynipid wasps and are nothing to worry about either. https://livingwithinsects.wordpress.com/2013/02/24/living-with-turkey-oak/ Unless the tree is looking completely bare during the summer I wouldn't worry.
  4. Alinicoll
    I would say the encyclopedia is all you need, unless you feel the need to carry a Mattheck book in your pocket.
  5. Alinicoll
    I'm not aware of that being the case in this area, its quite remote. Elephants can do a lot of damage in some areas when it gets dry and they get hungry. The Baobabs are more grass than tree and can tolerate a lot of munching which is why they survive here.
  6. Alinicoll
    Big Baobab in Zambia... You can see someone inside the tree in the second pic. This tree was known as the poachers tree. Before a large piece fell off there was a cavity the size of my living room inside with a carved window. The third picture is of a smaller but no less spectacular Baobab.
  7. Alinicoll
    Don't drop anything on it, its really brittle
  8. Alinicoll
    Surely this is a wind up?
  9. Alinicoll
    Two grand for a set of spikes!!!!
  10. Alinicoll
    If humanity were an individual person it would be quite young still. It would be at that phase of maturation where it is primary concerned with it's own wants. It would be just beginning to realize the effects that it's behaviour and self serving had on others but reluctant to change. Individuals rarely change their behaviour until a crisis point comes. With the current world population reaching crisis point, movement of products causing endless problems and the quality of communications allowing almost every individual on the planet to be aware of this we could change things but we need to collectively move out of the "I want, I want" phase. Humans do have the capacity to see the bigger picture if they want to. Who knows may may even do so. .....If that was the sort of response you were after.....
  11. Alinicoll
    I own one. It doesn't get used. I bought it a few years ago and had great hopes for it for some kind of last resort decay detection. It was pretty disappointing. I found when you hit white rot it all compacts inside and gets jammed in the tip. I ended up damaging the tip trying to unblock it. I'm sure they may be useful for checking growth rings but for decay detection you might be better off looking for a second hand or recon F series resistograph.
  12. Alinicoll
    Well I'm stumped ah ha ha ha ha....
  13. Alinicoll
    Is it not Phaeolus? Brown rot, presumably conifer stump.
  14. Alinicoll
    I'd say it was Lime wood and mistletoe leaf. Or the biggest piece of mistletoe every.
  15. Alinicoll
    I'd say that looks like phone cables, there are no insulators on the poles but its best to check with the DNO anyway.
  16. Alinicoll
    What arbs do on their days off......
  17. Alinicoll
    There's a term in my contract that states if I don't ID a certain quota of fungus per annum I have to sit in the corner for a week wearing the Fomes hat!
  18. Alinicoll
    I'm not sure that you can distinguish appl/aus apart from macroscopic features alone. Where confirmation is required only DNA analysis or spore analysis would give a result I'd fully trust. As Kveldssanger has said its the residual wall and vitality of the tree that are key. Remember that whilst australe has been shown to breach reaction zones in vitro and applanatum has not, the same may not be true in a living tree with very functional vessels. The more we understand, the more complicated things become I find.
  19. Alinicoll
    It's probably Ganoderma australe or applanatum. Pfeifferi has a waxy crust which you can scratch a yellowish waxy substance from, it is far less common than the other two.
  20. Alinicoll
    Yeah, that sort of thing. It's interesting to see how the devices develop.
  21. Alinicoll
    I'm using Hedera, i's okay. I had poison Hi vee before which I think was better. The Hedera is more bouncy. I was thinking of trying the hitch a bit looser with the volcano. It seems to be a very fine balance between the hitch locking up and being too loose. This is on HH1. We'll see how it goes. The HH isn't perfect but I do prefer it to having a wrench flapping about and I'm still waiting for a compact mechanical SRT device to appear. Are you finding the HH2 much better?
  22. Alinicoll
    Cheers. That's lucky, that's what I bought. It was just quite difficult to get through the bone. It seems to work okay but I haven't had a proper play yet.
  23. Alinicoll
    Is this 10mm Volcano?
  24. Alinicoll
    I don't think that employers are obliged to provide tools. PUWER just says that they need to be fit for purpose, appropriate to the task, inspected and used by trained operatives. I think that for tax purposes it generally makes sense for an employer to buy kit for PAYE employees but some companies find employees look after person kit better. You might expect some kind of tool allowance for providing tools but that's between you and your employer.
  25. Alinicoll
    I would think that you want to be careful with non native or infectious diseases e.g. Chalara, bleeding canker etc and anything specific to (sweet?) chestnut. Things like honey fungus are probably less of a concern. A woodland will already have honey fungus, its part of the ecosystem. Adding wood chip will increase the amount of dead wood which saprotrophs can then colonise. Honey fungus is not good at competing with other sapotrophic fungi. Even if you did put wood chip with honey fungus down it wouldn't just run riot.

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