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  1. Ben Ballard
    nice one tony your realy opening our minds to whats going on ,valuable knowledge to give us better understanding of the enviroment we are working in:thumbup1:
  2. Ben Ballard
    cheers mate i been thinking about this today whilst in my tractor and had a look on the net when home just luck i would say
  3. Ben Ballard
    maybe, mycena inclinata and number 2 guess is velvet shank
  4. Ben Ballard
    cheers hama its realy good information to learn ,is the wood on the side with the larger growth rings from the tree growing at a lean been tension wood would this be more likely to rot than the tighter growth rings on the compression side
  5. Ben Ballard
    last try is it the fungi working its way round the rays
  6. Ben Ballard
    a old shoot or knot
  7. Ben Ballard
    is the fungi struggelling to get in to the callus wood
  8. Ben Ballard
    looks like velvet shank, flammulina
  9. Ben Ballard
    we had some sycamores that had there roots damaged from a creation of a car park around them about 20 years ago with years of compaction and some large wounds created from low limbs removed .over the years some of the trees have died with honey fungus finishing them of and dryads saddle on some of them hollowing out the pruning wounds,so knowing the history of the site the fungus was taking advantage and not the first cause
  10. Ben Ballard
    nice thread hama i always enjoy trees in art and history here is a warter colour of some elms i was given the artist is unknown
  11. Ben Ballard
    :thumbup1:nice one tony cracking shots looks great with the autum colour. it was cool seeing the barn owl in the chestnut today
  12. Ben Ballard
    all the above and arrive at work early , be keen to jump out truck when arrive at the jobs and crack on with putting signs and cones out and fueling the saws
  13. Ben Ballard
    good post always good to see photos of the affects of fungi, them brown things at bottom of photo could be old honey fungus fruit bodies
  14. Ben Ballard
    nice one bushcutter i will look out for it when it comes on ,its always good when the public get to see what work goes into managing woods:001_smile:
  15. Ben Ballard
    like the photos a good bit of history ,would of been good experiance in felling at that time with all the big elm trees removed
  16. Ben Ballard
    some groundies would have sklll the climber might not have eg using forestry equipment planting up large areas the list could go on ok this may no apply to the average tree surgery company but if working for a firm that caries out a variety of jobs not always climbing
  17. Ben Ballard
    i get what your saying skyhuck but do think there are some good groundys that are worth as much as the average climber(not a top climber),may be my view is because i enjoyed grounding more than climbing so thats what i do best
  18. Ben Ballard
    just because a climber can do the groundy's job dont mean he as good at it,and i know a few old forestry blokes that could wipe the floor with the amount of work done compared to some tree surgeons
  19. Ben Ballard
    great photo tony:thumbup1: now thats cool if the bracket today was a robustus and first for kent
  20. Ben Ballard
    could be Ganoderma applanatum.
  21. Ben Ballard
    great photos mate been good seeing this job unfold niceone:thumbup1:
  22. Ben Ballard

    Walnut

    Ben Ballard replied to treemeup's topic in General chat

    :thumbup1:very nice ,what length is the main stem?
  23. Ben Ballard
    :thumbup1:great thread/would make a great book, i look forward to reading more
  24. Ben Ballard
    When i have marked in the past for thinning i have used a dot of paint two sides of tree and black bands when been asked to mark potential final crop trees,i mainly carry out thinning my self so dont need to mark up for first and second thinnings
  25. Ben Ballard
    Here is a large chestnut that split out the one side was hung up in a oak i was able to cut from the one side and roll it of , i enjoy the big storm damaged stuff as makes it more interesting you never know what to expect:001_smile: .

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