Bart

Nice carvings

What a fantastic start into the arb world , all the best for your future Tom . Thanks for sharing the story Dave

Carved these for one of the follies at work which is currently being restored, it’s not finished yet but put the shells in yesterday. There carved from a Yew that blew down not far from the cottage. It’s called shell cottage because the interior walls were slowly covered in shells by many generations of the family.

The Tree

Carving the shells

Shell Cottage

The original interior

Carved shells in the half restored cottage.

Thanks for the kind comments

Quacking thread like the folllow up pics, nice job

Quality idea Tony

Cracking view

Attempting to sort through and organize my photos so thought id add a few to this thread.

Pics include

Rhyssa persuasoria searching for and parasitizing wood wasps.

Snowdrops

Bluebells

Veterans

Shadows

Some fung

Work

Enjoy.

Quality, really nice spalting in that beech

Great pictures Steve, Fantastic work

Got similar bleeding lesions on a mature Beech, were an Ramorum infected site so fera tested a bark sample from it, and a number of other large Beech all came back negative for phytophthora. The tree is also host to Kretz, Merip, and found some armillaria rhizomorphs near the buttresses.

Quality

Some awesome pics in there Matt

Think its this

Piptoporus betulinus - Razor strop/Birch Polypore - David Humphries’s Fungi Directory - Arbtalk.co.uk | Discussion Forum for Arborists

Thats some funky fungi well captured

Nice carvings

Cool project, and nice design

Tidy job Tommer, nice view

Great photos chaps some brilliant trees there, looked like an awesome day out:thumbup1:

maybe a bacterial or fungal infection causing the blue stain, possibly linked with previous pruning wounds.

Cracking photo thread gibbon

Must read threads more thoroughly, the whole trailer towing thing really annoys me having passed my test in march 97:angry:

Not been mentioned yet but if its not for hire of reward you wont need a tacho so tow away:001_smile: may be wrong tho this is a highly confusing area

Posted before in another thread, Maggots feating on Fistulina hepatica flesh

Awesome Matty thats a fine looking table the spalting's amazing, personally i like the bark on the legs