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So how bad was that storm? I may have seen a special on television about it last year. Our worst storm on the west coast was called the "Columbus Day Storm" with the highest wind gust reported being about 179 mph / 288 kmh - apparently at one part of the Oregon coast. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbus_Day_Storm A weeping willow fell on our house that year. I still recall the beginning of the winds as we left the grocery store - even to this day. Didn't your mid-80s storm cause a lot of havoc in regards to water and flooding?

Until you wrote this post, I hadn't thought of pollarding in at least a month. It's rare out here. In Beaverton - about 90,000 - where I live, I only know of one place where it's done routinely and properly, at an automobile sales business. So do you need permits to prune there?

Oh .. yeah ... Long term on the ID - LOL The fun for me is mainly finding different kinds. Slowly but surely, I find a name here and there. It started with the Fly Agaric. That spurred me to hike slower and pay closer attention to the ground. Then I wanted to learn at least one edible, so I figured out the Chanterelle, since the underside of the cap can't be confused with other having knife-like gills. Then I started looking to see how many different kinds there were in our woods. It's amazing how much small autumn color is provided by fungi - like little decorations on the forest floor and stumps.

Just saw a few Chanterelles last weekend near the ocean. The one below is from last January when I was in north California. A big Ganoderma & our son. My mushroom images are in this album: MDV mushroom photo album ______________

What did you have the laptop computer hooked up too? Also, like that pic of the tree with all the conks on the side.

Now I don't think I posted this pic yet ... But that helicopter view I added a short while ago - the tree below is in the forest seen off in the distance. These can be really nifty forests. I call this one Jurassic Tree.

That's a hard one to answer sometimes. But that area is so nice, even as it's logged, I could understand someone getting it "into their veins". Yeah... it rains a lot. But the air is cool and fresh, and it's not in the bustle of the city. You know what the trees used to be like there? Like the one below. What intrigues me about the AXMEN show, is how dangerous and tough they make it look now. I'd love to see an AXMEN show showing how dangerous and tough it was with the older machines and trees much bigger.

30% landscape and 60% tree and shrub care. I teamed up with a local arborist for high climbing. He does the high stuff, and I do the low stuff. Every now and then, when the logging operations get closer to a highway, I'll pull over and watch them work of a while. The ones I've seen, really do seem to be moving at a fairly industrious pace.

For trees like that, I'd really be giving thought to packaging more of a root plate, than using a tree spade. The benefits will likely show up afterwards when establishment costs or survival really make a difference. http://www.gianttreemoving.com/Portfolio.htm It's not easy work, but it would be fun in it's own way.

That show was on cable televsion here quite a while ago, with occassional repeats. It was filmed, maybe, 50 minutes west of us. It's between the city we are in, and the ocean which is less than an hour and a half drive away. There is a big log restaurant / logging museum about 20 miles from the coast that I like to eat at. To the side of their parking lot, is old machinery, including the big band saw below. That saw is about 16' tall, maybe taller. The other photo is from a helicopter I rode in near Seaside, looking southward over the town of Cannon Beach. The green hills in view look very similar to the area being logged in AXMEN, about 30 miles east.

That's the one.

Looking through my photos, I can't find any showing a bulge on the ground. The closest related image is this one attached, where the tree is already on it's side.

Dogs are cool. We have 3. A Rottwieller, a long hair Chihuahua, and a Papillion. My wife just got the "pappy" last year. Cute, but odd little dog. Very athletic. Can almost jump straight up in the air while playing. High pitch bark. The closest to terrier we had before was the miniature Schnauzer. Smart little "house-wise" dog. Tended to learn the rules and protocol of the home very well.

I just found that online for the first time last week, other than the 4 minute cropped version on Youtube. National Geographic had a special show about Yosemite Valley today, and included Spickler climbing the giant Sequoias with Ambrose and someone else, for research. It was about a 5 minute segment.

Yes, I must remember you are over the water, so I can't offer inexpensive choices. I know that plane tickets can be bought to cross most of the USA for as little as $300 to $400 USA dollars. Medford, Oregon is the closest airport, about 2.5 hours east, but flights can be more. I'm guessing that you could see more redwood forest flying in to San Francisco's airport, than going to Portland, Oregon. Suppose someone could fly for $400, rent a car for say $500, and pay $80 a night for rooms, aside from food, that's under $2000 USA. Have no idea what it costs to cross the ocean. If you can pull-off a deal for $500, then the total redwood trip for a week would be what a landscaper or tree guy can make on a really good day or two. Personally, Oct. to March is my favorite time in the redwoods. For travelers, that means lower room costs. With posting on the forums, you can figure out how to guide your self. The roads are well signed, plenty of maps, and lots of websites. EDIT ......... I just did a search on United Airlines without looking much, and noticed that from London Heathrow to New York showed one flight at $766. Not brutal, and I'm sure that other airlines or flights can be less. That was mid-January and mid-February.

That's a really sweet deal. I'd thought about trying something like that here someday in the back, but maybe treehouse style. Sometimes I just happen to improvise and make an office on the road, like when I needed to do a design for a condominium front planting bed near Seaside, Oregon. I measured the big bed, then drove a half hour south to Nehalem Bay State Park campground. Did that building come as a kit? I like the wood look too, more so than had it been painted with a solid color.

Google displayed this topic when I was web surfing for redwood stuff yesterday. Anyhow, caught my eye, as it's sort of related to my recent redwood hiking. Here's the page I assembled for images of the redwoods in The Wild Trees: Atlas Grove, the Grove of Titans, Etc.. Photos and some video included. The only thing the book did not have, that I did not really realize until I started reading, was the omission of photos. A good read though. I went through it slowly during a week, because I read slow. Then a few weeks later, I found myself rereading about three quarters of it again. The attached image is a photo stitch panorama of Iluvatar...