Ben Ballard
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i am in ,should be a great trip cheers lads:thumbup1:
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wow what a park some amazing trees cheers for posting the pics:thumbup1:loved the tree with the ladder and fork with a fern growing in it
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always enjoy your pics ,looked a fun job niceone:thumbup1:
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i would say no 2,at least they will learn how you want things done ,and good of you to invest your time showing them,but sometimes it must be hard to find the time when lots to be done so can see the benifits of college.
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looks like you all had a great day i will have to have a weekend of and come to the next one:001_smile:
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if selling by the cube cant happen when selling artic loads of fire wood ,could it work if price could made on what the moisture content is, so loss of weight wont affect value?
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Volume to weight conversion
Ben Ballard replied to treedave's topic in Forestry and Woodland management
oak 1063kg per m3 -
i found the best price for the gransfors splitting maul was with greenwood direct had free delivery when i got mine a few weeks ago
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the body language of Decay, The Delights of D
Ben Ballard replied to Tony Croft aka hamadryad's topic in Fungi Pictures
good post tony the buckleing is cool i have been looking about today after reading this and found a oak that ticks all the boxes to what you said niceone:thumbup1: -
nice collection of the inonotus tony:thumbup1:,was pic 34 the one on the beech you looked at here,and did you comfirm it as inonotus nodulosus?cheers
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great pics nice one
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i run a 346xp with a 15 or 13 its great when can bench fell for snedding with a shorter bar but my next saw would be a 357 as got the balls to handle a 18 and less bending my back
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yes mate iam about your welcome to pop down ,do you think with it been a late fruiter it can escape degrading from insects, be interesting what ones are found feeding and living on this if any known?
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still looking good and covered in ice crystals:001_smile:
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good thread tom:thumbup1: i look forward to seeing your shots of the decay. hope you dont me adding a couple pics of a natural pollard that came down this summer with k d
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cheers lads it will be interesting to see how long it will hang about i have enjoyed witnessing this fungi with tony and look forward to the work to retain the habitat of this special tree that he has offered to do:thumbup1:,you cant see in the photo but under the hericium is a bees nest and looked like a woodpecker or a squirrel had beentrying to get the honey as fresh bark was missing around the hole.
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ok not the best quality photo but thourght id share as looked cool:001_smile:
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cool thread,nice slice monkey:thumbup1:
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nice find and great photo:thumbup1:
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nothing from this year ,most expensive been the car:001_smile:
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the body language of Decay, The Delights of D
Ben Ballard replied to Tony Croft aka hamadryad's topic in Fungi Pictures
:lol:all good when done in lunchtime or end of day -
the body language of Decay, The Delights of D
Ben Ballard replied to Tony Croft aka hamadryad's topic in Fungi Pictures
todays slice for hama ,chestnut coppice ripped down to fell a double stem it had interesting decay goin on,the second slice was of a stem that had its growing tip die the smaller branch in the fork .and a side branch bowed out to take over -
will do i always enjoy what i see inside when milling or ripping a big trunk , i look forward to my next bit of decayed wood and i will take a good look:thumbup1:
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good thread,good to consider mycorrhizal when planting trees on arable land that has had crops growing on it thats roots dont need them and has had years of fungisides and fertiliser:001_smile:
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