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Dates are 23-28th July 2010 in Chicago. Is anyone considering going out for a nosey, more arboriculture than you can throw a stick at oh and to watch the internal tree climbing champs -
Got a customer who wants to reduce the height of some old trees in a woodland, discussed loads of options, including fracture pruning etc. Does anyone have a definitive how to make a coronet cut, There is loads of stuff on AIE aboout what it is, its purpose how great it is. But i cant find the process by which you create one, i know in Windsor Great Park the Senior arbo's used a small amount of explosive to get the shattered ends. But this technique is somewhat frowned upon by HSE and not allowed. Just need to know if it is reduce the branches and then fettle the ends till they look shattered.
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I use the treemagineers mulitsaver, £36 as opposed to £180 for the ART cambium saver, whilse it is nice to have a pulley in the system to reduce the friction in the climbing line, it is not the end of the world, cannot see the point/or justify £180
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Use a tape for DBH stuff, have been known to fire a throw line over the top, use a bit of trigonometry. Do a climbing VTA and drop a throw line from the top. knots in the line every 10m. If charging £350 for a climbing VTA i need to justify my cost, got to get my feet off the ground. Cannot be bothered with the hypsometer, inclinometer. Other option, bit of wood, know length walk away and Roberts ya dads brother, well sometimes. If climbing i get to see what the tree is hiding or knot.
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Hmmm, entrances are remaining, as existing, stipulated by planning dev control, as for reducing RPA's, why and how, i know you can slew them. As for the ground protection, i need to be able to support 30ton demolition wagons and the plethora of 360's which are redeveloping the house, it is only at entrance and exit, so really 20ft kind of pontoons. The council have a massive condition list, i will point out the house being built is priced at development of over £3.5m, the homeowner has already spent £1m buying the derelict house to demolish. Think i need to talk to a structural engineer quick
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Got a house about to get demolished, all the trees around are covered by a conservation area. The site has been left for 10 years so trees at the drive in/drive out access are going to have to be sympathetically pruned before demolition vehicles can get into the site and demolition can take place I have to design RPA protection fencing etc, which is straight forward, council have a list of conditions, one of my headaches is access for demolition/construction vehicles. . Council want a design for protection of RPA accross the entrance and exit, ie reinforced/proprietary system to avoid soil compaction etc when big waggons and 360's arrive. I cant just put 12" woodchip and steel plates down. Bad enough they have already made the site a hand dig holes only. Any good ideas
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Been on VT, with hitchclimber and DMM ovals for a while, had the Rapide pulley for a month or so, cant see a massive difference, how ever got the thr new Treemagineers multi cambium saver, that thing is sweet, and a lot less than the ropeguide. Top the lot, along with either my helios or leros 8mm prussik cord this kid is totally colour coordinated. The only way is up.
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I spotted the bruise on tree, while working on another tree, and happened to investigate. I was also doing some research on cankers because i have worked on several genus with bleeding canker, in advanced stages mostly. I was looking at the possibility of using the tree as a guinea pig for the alicin research data. As a guinea pig is the important part. Alicin take up can be checked by randomly selecting foliage, crushing the leaves should produce a powerful smell of garlic. This way you know that the Alicin has been taken up by the vascular system, I am under no illusion that the Alicin is going to make any difference, and the customer is the same.
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Got a customer with a 12year old silver birch, tree foliage deteriorating rapidly, to busy to get out to take a look, anyone recognise this little blimp, who is he/she
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Monkey D Alicin is single dosage, have fairly decent results in the Netherlands, not a whole lot of research data, really is trial/research type stuff. The results really wont show for a good 5-10 years, the only thing is to take photos, check year on year and see whether the canker goes into remission or the opposite, voyage of discovery. Will let ya know
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I get slightly worried when somebody starts flashing the word terminal, i have not considered the canker terminal. I have a great specimen that will give me the opportunity to get proactive, the tree will receive a dose of allicin, then give it a week shall see how this has been taken on board by the tree. Lots of digital phots b4 and after, wait and see. Devils advocate or devil may care.
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Used it for a couple of years, works well but have to really tune ropes and prussik cord, i also ran shorter tails than your picture, also i dropped tails either side and put swing cheek in there, i have used it on a hitchclimber with stitchd eye ocean polyester, does have a better grab factor at times to the good ol VT, go play away and go mad. Also best practice, reduction in friction, get that cambium saver out of the bottom of the bag, even if you stick the pulley on that
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I have come across a good example of a fine beech tree, with the first indication of beech canker, a single bruise on the main stem, which is not quite oozing an exudate. It also had felted coccus(Cryptococcus fagisuga) which has been treated with a mild detergent scrub. I am using the beech tree as a guinea pig for the Allicin fusion kit, ie injecting into the vascular system of the tree to see if i can get the tree to respond. I am working in conjunction with JCA in Halifax. It is not a cheap option, medium/large beech with a DBH of 85cm, 20m high is around £300, however cheaper to try and save the tree, keep it for amenity value than to pull the tree down immediately.
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This may be a daft question about bleed canker
arnoldbuchsassinger replied to Scottie's topic in Tree health care
I have worked on several massive trees with extensive vascular failrure from, i have always found big old trees which have failed to leaf up on on stem, big side lateral, at this point they usually become victim to everyother pathogenic attack, waterborne/airborne or saw borne. Have come across massive bark necrosis, whole bark shell peeling away, will just warn ya though, this is not just on horse chestnut, be warned. I am adding a new posting on the very subject -
Fruiting bodies were right on the ground in the buttress curve at the base, have attached a piccie, The fruiting body did not have the white margin, also G.Adspersum normally stays at stem base, this was in the lower stem section. They are damn similar though, really need to see fruiting bodies when they have not been frosted and weathered over winter
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Should have used your eyes and not your ears, you wood have seen what really happened. They were in a Landrover watching
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only 2-3 metres, however further up amongst the canopy there was other decay present in the stems, probably not merip. g takes out lower stem base and roots. Upper canopy was completely shot which reduced the sail area which in turn probably kept the tree upright a little longer, the great lack of upper canopy even this early in season indicates the level of decay in the base of the tree.
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Got called to a tree on Friday by Frank, 50-60ft beech, meripilus victim, basal flare had a big crack in it, tree lifting in gusting winds. Had to fell it into field and clean up the mess yesterday. My question is does anyone have info or guidelines on management of, responsibility of property owners etc. The tree was right next to a very busy driveway. Tried to explain to the managers of the business park, and the nursing home that it could potentially fail while i am standing here telling them, they have a dangerous tree which will come over and kill someone if it hits car or ambulance. Not interested can we get a quote in for next week!!!! After a reasonably direct conversation we got the go ahead, i want info where the responsibility lies, ie they must provide a safe environment at all times etc.
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Get everything on paper, then inform the tree office of the decision made by the highways agency and the legals, if you have not already. one phone call could make a big difference.
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fujicura is now sorbus, lots of science and trees, ground pen radar, big technical stuff with a big daily burn rate, saw the stuff in action in York, not convinced though
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Rope to the right has a figure 8 stuck in the other end, i only stuck it on the end to try out a quick v rig, not ideal, really the knot should have been tighter and lower and extended vt would have been out of reach, worked fantastically. Got to get a an eye spliced in the other end, alternatively use a second rope.
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Frank you avatar appears to have been changed, the fluffy rabbit has been replaced by some 80's fluffy nursery baby competition winning picture. It would appear the hair hair has been airbrushed to increase volume of folicles.
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like everyone says check and dont take the homeowners word for it, the fines can get hefty, big problem for councils is they dont have the time to follow a lot up and get the pykies who did the work. However if a building/developer removes a tpo'd tree and rebuilds they will pursue that because the charge is on the land and then becomes related to sale price of said property. However in reality most people seem to get away with just a telling off.
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got a pair at capel manor at the weekend, had a recreation climb this afternoon, oval carabiner, slightly crisper gate action, do work well, people say they are strong in the open position etc, me I only want them to work in the closed position, have attached a piccie
