nepia
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A suggestion and definitely not an ID... on a conifer, 3m up... Phaeolus schweinitzii, Dyer's Mazegill. Not a good one for the tree.
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Reduction via thinning rather than all over shortening? small branches can be cut out, leaving smaller wounds. The tree retains its outline but allows the wind to filter through it rather than hitting a comparatively solid target. Same thinking as hit and miss fencing.
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https://freewoodchips.co.uk/ Released yesterday by His Bullmanness from this site.
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...WhatsApp'd to a gardening co. that regularly ask me for chip. Good one Steve; thanks.
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Don't think you'll have any problems with the Wood Walkers. Mine were frighteningly tight out of the box but the leather quickly warmed, softened and stretched so that after a couple of days wear they were really comfortable.
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Without wishing to sound too obvious have you asked at Brinsbury? From their website it seems they still do such courses though still listed as CS30/31 etc and those two have a course length of 1 year!
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From a point of view of zero expertise... wouldn't that level of contamination justify scraping the entire surface with a big bucket into skips and burying the lot?
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Have you asked Horsham fencing? ?
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That's fantastic. Worth even more than a walnut tree on the bay ?
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Well in my amateurishness I thought from the start that the tree in pic 2 was a spruce.
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Plant it now and it'll be home for nesting birds around the turn of the century! I've often dreamed of such a thing myself; if I'd had the ground for it when I was 20 I'd have done it.
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Blackwater Road I think. If so the tree was a sapling when I was a member of the establishment in the background ?
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Don't think bamboo sprouts from top growth; it sure didn't when I chipped my own back onto the ground it had been growing in. If you put the roots through the chipper though...?
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It works. Gomtaro on the right, Zubat on the left and I've been A Man For All Apples. Still got the 240mm Zubat scabbard going begging...
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I've chipped it a few times with no problem (Jo Beau). I can't think of a reason why it wouldn't be fine for mulching: not the best perhaps but OK.
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Er - no idea. Auxins are pretty basic to the mechanisms of plant growth and regulation! Gibberellins anyone?
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Make up your mind; are they crap or are they earners?! Glad things are picking up though; what cock to suffer that way because a service provider wasn't forwarding your business calls.
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For the bigger bits you could speak to a local woodturning club but don't expect money for them green. If you want money for them you could make woodturning blanks yourself, dry them slowly for three years and sell them. Similar re the smaller pieces... firewood I'm afraid and given away unless you dry them and can find the limited market for small woodturning blanks (pen blanks for example). I can't see money in those logs I'm afraid: trust me I've tried the woodturner thing and failed. The hobbyists just won't buy green stuff, the professionals will but they're selective about their purchases. It would actually be nice for someone follow up on this post and shoot me down in flames; I could live with being wrong on this occasion!
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Google throws up this one man band in Aylesbury (probably more likely to answer at this time than a company) P (for Paul) W Auto Electrical 01296 420888
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Cotoneaster (franchetii I think).
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Thanks. Hollow isn't a problem to vitality but that's a good sized tree so I totally get the stability issue.
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I'm in Surrey, nearly into Kent. There are few details really: renovation pruning isn't difficult once you get hold of the basics of opening out the centre of the tree, removing dead, damaged, crossing branches etc. After that look at thinning the remainder but not all at once - over several years to reduce the power of the reactionary growth. As I said above I get little chance to see such projects through to the point that the tree's been recovered and is in 'routine' phase! I have done a couple of purely spur pruning jobs (just reducing the number of spurs to reduce numerical fruit production); that's tedious!
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My skills don't reach that far I'm afraid and I don't have any at home! I just prune others' trees and most of that work is renovation pruning. Not surprisingly I suppose I don't get to visit enough times to see it through to annual formative work; people don't want to hear that there's three years' work needed to get their tree back under proper control! Alec and Gollum... I hope they're OK.
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David, if you're there - how's the pear tree from Page 1? Last news was a significant crack developing... Jon
