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slack ma girdle

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  1. Narrow leafed Ash?
  2. The open areas have had a robo flail run over and collect the brambles, but other than that we haven't done anything to hide where we have been. Sometimes i think less is more, like plastering, the more you fiddle with it the worse it looks.
  3. I have not seen silverleaf in Pembrokeshire for years, but in the last couple of years i have to remove about 10 which had succumbed. Interestingly none of the dead trees had been pruned, and i suspect that the silver leaf was a secondary infection.
  4. Moved out of the woods and onto a SSSI, to reduce the levels of Willow. Everything to stay onsite in habitat piles.
  5. I wouldn't get too hung up on what the book says, its a big old Ash, and the most likely candidate is Perenniporia. After twenty years of trying to get my head around tree fungi, i still feel that i don't know very much, and their form has so many variations. Get Mr Humphries book, you won't find better .
  6. I would start with Perenniporia
  7. I made these wooden side, which lean against the stack and the tarp ties over the top. Max air flow, very little rain, and easy to move.
  8. Flat wet woodland, tree quality high, bramble levels low.
  9. Bomb proof, really good vibration damping, shame that they have stopped making them.
  10. Is this Alder bracket doing what you are asking
  11. I have missed your posts, and i am not entirely sure what you are asking. I have an inkling, but an idiots version would be helpful
  12. Crisis is probably abit strong a word, but nobody seems to be taking this seriously. I have spent the last 20 years managing this wood, and we were starting to get some decent saw logs. All of the timber is now stained with brown which means they are only good for firewood. The wood is approx 5Ha, and of that about 4Ha is now standing dead. With the open canopy the brambles are over head high which is making felling and extraction difficult, and needs alot of control(expense) to get the new trees established. The wood is no longer acting as a carbon sink, and the amount of water leaving the wood is definitively higher. Both of these have serious implications for the future, so maybe crisis is the right word.
  13. Once you go further east into Carmarthenshire Oak and Beech levels start to increase, but levels of Ash are still high there. The North part of Pembrokeshire has higher levels of Oak, but we are predominantly Ash and Sycamore down here.
  14. As the title says.
  15. Hand on i am just looking in your book
  16. I want it to be a wrinkled peach, but i don't think it is, any thoughts?
  17. Its too long, and the tube section too thin. If it is bending with a small relatively vertical tree, it is not going to have the strength to push a back leaning tree which is want you want it to do. The idea is good, it just needs some refinement.
  18. For once not dying Ash, just a limb removal from over a garage.
  19. Parasitic boletus growing from an earthball
  20. The old fool is still droning on !
  21. Here in west Wales after the storm in mid May, alot of trees turned brown, which was due to the storm carrying in salt laden air which burnt off the leaves. I don't know where stourhead is, and coastal proximity, but the very dry cold April and May may have been a factor particularly if the leaves/ needles were freshly emerged.
  22. This the kind of stump grinding i like, air con and radio on, watching the horse flies trying to get in.

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