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  1. Ben Ballard
    :001_smile:seen this beech with large amounts of panic fruiting merrip in a park near me earlier this year, the wind got it this week, alot of the main roots were rotten the 2nd pic has a old fruit showing
  2. Ben Ballard
    Hi David :001_smile:Here is a few from mine that had popyporus squamosus. i posted on a thread called sycamore pollard the other week
  3. Ben Ballard
    Nice pics david i Had the same happen on a sycamore the other day, will made a good pollard
  4. Ben Ballard
    :001_smile:glad your opp went well and it heals in good time looked well nasty
  5. Ben Ballard
    glad you like it i lookin forward to see how it develops i removed the ivy and left the epicormic:001_smile:
  6. Ben Ballard
    This sycamore split apart at the fork losing 3 main stems last week in the wind , it was totaly rotted by polyporus squamosus and full of water so i got the last stem down should make a good feature in the wilderness garden it in. had to put the winch on it as had a heavy lean over a cherry and some new plantings. had a weak fork at the best place to pull it so used a big strop to go round both stems ,The ash in the background we are hoping to do some work on with tony to save over the next year its base is been decayed by perreniporia fraxinea,and also pholiota squarrosa.
  7. Ben Ballard
    someone told me it a sign of clean air when lots of it about:001_smile:
  8. Ben Ballard
    Hi Rob when tony gets to old you will have to take over:lol:
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  10. Ben Ballard
    got to be the Biggest reduce i have seen been done,Nice knowing it will live on for many years with the comfort it hurricane proof was a worry with all that weight in the top and the decay at base.
  11. Ben Ballard
    Top work Tony Thankyou it was a perfect day i was amazed you got it done in a day 5 hours solid climbing:thumbup1:, The owners are very happy with the work ,and we looking forward to when you do the Ash by the church.
  12. Ben Ballard
    :thumbup1:if we have time sat when you reducing the big lime you will have to take a look at that stump
  13. Ben Ballard
    cheers gerrit. i will get a sample next year
  14. Ben Ballard
    I am certain this pic is merrip but will go back next year and get a pic when the fruit fresh if see it again:001_smile:
  15. Ben Ballard
    Hi Gerrit :001_smile:the first two are from a beech felled 10 year ago at the time there was a fair bit of epicormic growth coming from the root system that died of a few years after felling the other pic is one i have posted before that you menctioned that there could be live roots in the ground still,can get more pics of oak stumps i have found fruiting in grazed fields so no epicormic regrowth.would be interesting to dig one up to see if roots have grafted on near by trees or still alive as seem totaly dead above ground.
  16. Ben Ballard
    we got a frame made to put controls on that goes on the 3 point linkage can be put on easy in a few mins
  17. Ben Ballard
    :lol:and grifola
  18. Ben Ballard
    Is the fruiting of merrip on oak stumps cut decades ago because it takes a long time before the cellulose becomes exhausted?
  19. Ben Ballard
    do all the new gadgets realy save time when you think about the extra time you work to pay for them ?,must admit i 10 years behind with rigging kit would love to try out one of them lowering bollards one day closest i got to one of them was lowering of the tow hitch on the tractor.
  20. Ben Ballard
    one that can do any tree
  21. Ben Ballard
    looks a fair bit of grazing damage that not helping fenceing them of would help,armillaria and pholiota squarrosa aswell.
  22. Ben Ballard
    I find the 260 feels cheep compaired to the 346 ,for forestry work small or midrange saws i find husky better. bigger saws i go with stihl
  23. Ben Ballard
    Go with the 346 as it goes with your name huskyboy
  24. Ben Ballard
    beautiful work,i think reductions are like works of art in the right hands:thumbup1:
  25. Ben Ballard
    I have had beech do this in the tree tubes ,especially the old style tubes that dont split apart as good as the new ones,when cutting guards of that are struggling to split loads of water comes out and bark ushally soft almost rotting with what seems like some sort of algea or moss,sometimes ants fill the guards with soil for there nests that can be a pain but might cause roots to develop

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