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How are you going to get rid of the stumps? Pelle?
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I'll be down at this site next week, David, so I'll pop in and retake them at the same heights. As I said the crown looks much the same, but as we know this sometimes doesn't mean a great deal.
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Couldn't get lower with the Picus due to slope and obstructions, but i did take some Resistograph readings at ground level with corroborated the Picus findings that the extent of the decay decreased the lower I went. When a report is for a homeowner, unless the Resistograph readings contradict (as they sometimes do), thew Picus readings then I don't include them. Picus readings are are fairly intuitive for a non-expert to undertsand, but it's more difficult (in my experience) to explain Resisto readings. There's no question that this tree will need to be felled in due course, I simply judged that given the tree is in a very low-use area, felling would have been premature given the readings. I might Picus it again this year and compare the findings...
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Good thread. K. deusta is a bit of an arch-enemy for good reason. It's interesting to try to gauge the extent of decay in the tree based on the size/extent of sporophores, as it sometimes doesn't hold. Here's a report I did on a beech tree I did in a garden of a second home (so not much used). The fruiting bodies were pretty extensive, but the internal investigation was a bit surprising. I normally would have felled it, but as it is, I think we'll get at least another 3 years out of it (while replacements get away). Despite the pronounced drought here this spring, the crown looks much as it did last year.
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Pic from a canadian post elsewhere with relative weights for the top and rear-handled models. Other notes suggest: "unloseable" bar cover adjustable oiler lateral chain tensioner quarter-turn reservoir caps fancy carb elastostart (I don't recall the 200 being too hard to fire up) Looks pretty similar to me...
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Looks to me that it might well be the nasty Sudden Oak death, but I'd be delighted to be wrong. Have a look at the images at Forestry Commission - Plant Health - P Ramorum Symptom images and see what you think. Is the tree in the SW somewhere?
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Cracking video boys.
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It's all new to me, guys, so still getting my head around it. My symptoms were glands swelling up (very big face- they thought it had mumps to begin with) and not working well, rapid weight loss (22kg in 5 weeks), sleep disturbance and general feeling of crappiness. But it's very variable in how it affects people. I've mostly recovered from this bout without medication, so I hope that's the last I'll see if it for a while. I'm more or less back to my old self apart from sore eyes, no saliva and three stone lighter. Remember, it is pretty rare so I hope we won't see big numbers among Arbtalkers, but it's possible that we might be more exposed to the risk than civilians.
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Hi Guys after a long and extremely unpleasant process I've been diagnosed with Sarcoidosis. Sarcoidosis: eMedicine Dermatology Among other things, tree pollen is implicated as a cause. I've had 22 years among trees, I thought it responsible to report it. Best Scott
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All of this and more is in BS3936: Part 1 "Nursery Stock". Your library should be able to get a loan copy for you. Whatever you do, don't photocopy it...
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Thanks for posting about your experiences, Ty. Really interesting stuff. I have to say, I don't like the sound of these 70% deductions they're taking off you. Is there any way around that? Could you not form the equivalent of a limited company or something like that?
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Heading over to BC in May to see what the employment situation is. I lived there years ago and have been doing some research over the web, but I think being there in the flesh can't be beat for fact-finding. Very temperate on the coast and if you avoid Vancouver itself (Victoria e.g) not that rainy.
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Could be. Shame the fungi are so splatted. In terms of resistance it may be relative- I've seen plenty of ash with honey fungus.
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Look like very scabby old honey fungus to me. Check for bootlaces around buttresses near ground level.
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Acer campestre
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Quite agree. I don't employ any surveyors without contracting experience.
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Some superb (read "crap") counterfeit saws on there. Hilarious.
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A Picus of the swelling point might be revealing? Where's the tree? If I'm nearby on another job I'll do it for a laugh.
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I'm convinced that is not a graft, and is rather the result of decay and the associated buckling and adaptive growth. Any poor graft I've ever seen of Aesculus ends up resulting in a big "elephant's foot"-style rootstock with a much more sickly stem and tree. Part of the point of selecting a rootstock is that it will be of a more vigorous variety or species than the tree you're trying to propagate. I can't think of an instance where I've seen a small rootstock with a larger tree growing out of it. In terms of graft "issues" I've certainly seen a great many scabby grafts on top-worked prunus etc. I think like so many things the take of the graft will be a function of the skill of the nurseryman.
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I'm convinced that is not a graft, and is rather the result of decay and the associated buckling and adaptive growth. Any poor graft I've ever seen of Aesculus ends up resulting in a big "elephant's foot"-style rootstock with a much more sickly stem and tree. Part of the point of selecting a rootstock is that it will be of a more vigorous variety or species than the tree you're trying to propagate. I can't think of an instance where I've seen a small rootstock with a larger tree growing out of it. In terms of graft "issues" I've certainly seen a great many scabby graft on top-worked prunus etc. I think like so many things the take of the graft will be a function of the skill of the nurseryman.
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The rootstock would generally be more vigorous than the "graftee", therefore be thicker (think of all those top-worked Kanzan Cherries with a bulging root and a weedy head). Could this be butt-rot causing the stem to "slump" and the increment resulting from adaptive growth? Dunno.
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Suppose I should have checked the previous thread....
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Ever wondered how they make those tacky white christmas trees you get in B & Q? An interesting article here: Ultra Rare Albino Redwoods Are an Everwhite Mystery (Pics) : TreeHugger
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Academic etiquette and writing
ScottF replied to Tony Croft aka hamadryad's topic in Training & education
Hi Tony Bangor University Forestry Department style guide attached. It's a fairly good guide to fundamental report/dissertation writing. I found it handy when doing my Master's thesis. I still reckon you're skirting around the inevitable: if you want to get into the sorts of academic/research areas I think you want to get into, you'll get nowhere without a good university qualification. That's the script, I'm afraid. You need the passport to get into academia. Best of luck Scott CP_S&P.pdf -
er, sycamore?
