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  1. Ben Ballard
    nice one monkey:thumbup1:
  2. Ben Ballard
    nice oak monkey d will look great when its done is the trees crown been worked on mainly to prevent it from falling or limbs that could shed in a public area, and to balance the crown back to the new crown that has formed ,maybe regrowth from other limbs that have shed in the past to make it more pleasing to the eye.if left alone would the limbs that you are bringing back die of or shed anyway in time,iam interested in having a selected few veterans worked on here in the future so always interested in the resons the work been done:001_smile:
  3. Ben Ballard
    nice job no messing about straight in the pond:thumbup1:
  4. Ben Ballard
    niceone mark great news:thumbup:
  5. Ben Ballard
    :thumbup1:great work
  6. Ben Ballard
    hama probly uses it to light up his house:lol:
  7. Ben Ballard
    nice example i was told that the boot lases of honey fungus glow in the dark and they were hung up to light up barns anybody else heard of this?or someone playing a joke on me
  8. Ben Ballard
    thats good david:thumbup1: i find it best to pollard sallows as they surpress the other trees in a young wood,
  9. Ben Ballard
    you will have to take a look when you next down if thats the like the fungi on the sycamore you looked at last year they both appear to be putting on a flush of fresh fruiting at the moment
  10. Ben Ballard
    a close up of the white beam
  11. Ben Ballard
    cheers mate it was high up the first ash, in a area of chestnut coppice.
  12. Ben Ballard
    a few pics in my lunch break on sat with out any fungi to id and what i have learnt from monkey d and hama would say it is hispidus causing the hollowing on the 2 ash and the swelling at the base of the second ash is from a buttrotting fungi or is this a sign of hispidus? the white beams top came out a few years ago and now covered with fruiting tripe fungus,the small pollard is the sort of thing i do when thinning a area to give second storey of growth and give some character:001_smile:
  13. Ben Ballard
    Nice shots tony that oak is a good find:thumbup1:
  14. Ben Ballard
    nice job good judgement with the felling and great the timber been used:thumbup1:
  15. Ben Ballard
    same here i had a incident a few years picked up a can of diesel to start a fire boom the can had petrol in it aswell couldnt smell it only the derve, burnt hands and face and had to roll on flool to put my self out luckly didnt get any scars found out it was a can that had been drained out a car that had petrol put in it by mistake. would never use petrol as a rule
  16. Ben Ballard
    thats him for sure he just does trees in his spare time i best be careful when i bent over sawing:lol:
  17. Ben Ballard
    lol he does look like a chubby patric swazey or kurt russel cant make my mind up:lol:
  18. Ben Ballard
    good info monkey and hama on the hollowing been from hispidus
  19. Ben Ballard
    i have only ever seen hispidus brackets high up stems of ash
  20. Ben Ballard
    it showed signs of the hispidus up in the top part of the stem but didnt see any brackets will have a good look when rakeing up as see them a lot up here on the ash in some of the woods
  21. Ben Ballard
    net working now so can reply was a great day working with phil and richard c ,its a shame the ash had to come down would of made a good pollard but over the winds in feb the crack had appeared to of got bigger gryfollia and dryads saddle had been at play the good news is a young ash growing next to it has chance to fill its boots and take over and stump and some of the hollow trunk will be left for habbitat
  22. Ben Ballard
    nice work like the use of dowels and the bark edges:thumbup1:
  23. Ben Ballard
    well hooked on ax men cantwait i know a lot of it acted out but wel good to see how it done over there
  24. Ben Ballard
    our woods are managed for conservation timber alongside shooting the keepers are keen to have the woods thinned so they get good ground cover from the regrowth in the understory or inrichment planting of native shrubs without shoots a lot of small woods would never get worked in
  25. Ben Ballard
    we have a big lime we were recomended to give dead wood and to thin the clumps as not to shock the tree removing it all the work was done was done 5 years ago, the clumps have grown back well but the tree has a lot of dead in crown again ,the tree is due to be done again this next winter along with a crown reduction will be done in winter so can sell the mysletoe

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