tommer9

I am going to advise removal tout de suite...there are people, buildings and expensive horses wandering about!!!

These are within 100 yds of the beech with a hole carved out of it Hama, on my other thread.

Where the tap root ought to be is just mush......

My camera battery is dead and i am without charger (thats in cornwall still) and my mobile isnt man enough to get better pics. In pic 2 there is a lot of reacive growth in the bark/ cambium layer, like a horizontal ridge. The left extremity of bark visible in pic 1 is the right extremity of bark visible in pic 2. I will try to get better pics in a bit...

Thank you. The power of arbtalk. I looked around for ages on google and couldnt find a single reference to this!!! Google spangle gall and it comes straight up!

Slightly rhetorical question TBH:biggrin: Nonetheless, its a pretty incredible sight. I can remove material from the roots right under this tree, and on 2/3 of the tree there are no roots!! I think it initially got overzealously strimmed and something like kretch has set in. If it wasnt so sheltered and any taller it would be down already.

I am sure i should know....but what is this?

I just googled him. Seems he's a local lad. If i end up up here i might look him up!

Nice one Hama!

Nasty stuff mate. Hope you arent out of action for too long!

BTW sorry about the exclamation mark by the heading....i thought i had put a thumb up!!!

Saw this whilst walking round the Mere at Ellesmere last evening. We liked the idea.

Dammit Hama:biggrin:- after David's direction to the fungi Guide i was just about to come up with the ident for 1 and 3....2 was still foxing me though..

A few fungi from Shropshire. I dont have my book here, so will leave ident to others...... Actually I am particularly interested to know what the last one is- no better pics as it is about 25' up an ash tree and i was on a bike ride.

Not really. Its worst when you are milling orfinishing as the dust is so much finer.

It is a fantastictimber for milling, well worth it. It has a very fine grain, which polishes to a high degree and takes oil etc very well. It is very vey stable, and can be used for many applications, both iside or out, as it is very rot resistant indeed. It doesnt have enough structural integrity for structural work in alot of cases though, as it is a 'short' grained timber- i.e. in small sections it can break diagonally across the grain. It makes fantastic furniture or decorative pieces such as window boards or sideboards etc, and often displays beautiful flame like figuring which can give a 3D ripple effect, somewhat like 'fiddleback' sycamore. Makes good cladding for exterior uses too, and due to its stability can be cut into thin wide waney edged boards for this use. Go for it! It is, however, very poisonous, so wear masks when working it, esp when dry and you are sanding.

Where do i start....... I hate the way they think their products are so superior, when inside is EXACTLY the same hardware as any other computer in the world......an Asus motherboard and a load of other generic chips. I hate the way that they ripped off a load of free ibuntu software (which is what open source software was for) and then claimed it as their own, not giving the slightest acknowledgement to the real developers. I hate the rip off prices. i hate the misguided belief they peddle that there are no viruses out there for apple products.....there are, its just that so few people use them its not worth the virus producers really chasing it. I hate the fact that if you but into it you buy into what apple dictates you use...THEIR email program etc etc- you dont really have any choice.... I hate the bull that is spread about reliability, and that if this is challenged on their help forums your IP address is barred from apple...... I LOVE that way that the I-Pad will NEVER have flash media due to apple wanting to call flash its own and the developers of the software refusing....rendering the I-Pad useless to AT LEAST 25% (and this will only grow exponentially) of the web.... There's plenty more.. you did ask...... I will NEVER have an apple product.

I had an HTC HD2 last year, and it was the biggest P.O.S i ever had. I am assured that newer ones are better, and I wouldnt touch any apple product with a barge pole out of principal. My present phone, nokia n95 8gb is the most awesome thing i have ever used, my choice is to recondition it and carry on (about £60) or have a new nokia, and N8 seemed closest to it for the camera. I was just thinking that if i do get a new one then i would like to be able to do Arbtalk better than at the mo.

Well this is what i was thinking. YOu can hammer these things hard and they just come back for more!! I did think about knocking it down in size in the winter- take the dead off, and let it concentrate on the new growth it's already putting out and see what happens in the spring. At the same time though, I wonder if the extra stress would just finish it- but then again, little to lose by the looks of it.

Big-j, Nobody will touch beech down here. I dont know of another mill that buys it, or is able to sell it on anything like a regular basis, and the one mill that used to do a fair bit in devon gave up a few years ago, citing lack of demand and the fact that everything wants to eat it whilst it dries as being the main two reasons. I have sat on stunning beech boards for years trying to flog them to almost anyone who came into the yard....to no avail. They all have this idea that it is just too plain....most wouldnt even look at it to be educated!!!

Very blue!! Some good carving there Armin.

I am getting a new phone at the start of August, and will be looking at another Nokia, probably the N8 for the camera. However i am unsure whether this tapatalk thing wil work with it. If not, does anyone know which nokias it will work with?

Interesting stuff Fungus.

:blushing:No its not you...I remember now. put a smiley though:thumbup1:

Thanks Fungus. I think you are right. The tree is in an advanced state of decline, and as i said, even the new growth is very poor.