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top marks for doing a monolith.....however think maybe a couple of coronets would have sufficed mixed with some rip cuts perhaps for a more natural look to it? We do alot of monoliths in Richmond pk and tend to mix it up a little.

Spot on mate......thats's fefinately the technical term......ball thingy......appears in all the books!

Ist photo's look like hoof fungus (fomes fomentarius)?? last Polyporous betulinus?

Is that not the same as hama's pic 3 david?

he's quality mate!

top marks David........me likey like.

two we made today

Nice one Phenom......that's a great fact! Glad to see everybody is contributing to this thread and sharing their knowledge. Any pics of reductions etc would be good too. I'm already really looking forward to next months tree.:thumbup:

Nice on Phenom......that's a great fact! Glad to see everybody is contributing to this thread and sharing their knowledge. Any pics of reductions etc would be good too. I'm already really looking forward to next months tree.:thumbup:

I'm starting to agree with you David.......I've often admired it but this week since the start of this thread i've started to really look at it.........it is a maginficent tree.

A lovely old birch in the snow today.

Thats genius,,,,,,,,,,,,part of me wishes it actually happend though!!!!

ya killjoys...dont stick a pin in his balloon........its a baby eagle mate.

5've watched on demand......didnt need to download anything....just watched what i wanted to watch.

wicked shots mate

very nice bart!!!

nope....a 13 amp one:001_tt2:

John Evelyn's 1664 Sylva or a Discourse on Forest Trees and the Propogation of Timber in His Majesty's Dominions (a good read if you are interested in 17th-century fencing techniques) for the beer, which, if you can get your hands on a gallon of birch sap, will be just as good today as it was 350 years ago. To every Gallon of Birch-water put a quart of Honey, well stirr'd together; then boil it almost an hour with a few Cloves, and a little Limon-peel, keeping it well scumm'd. When it is sufficiently boil'd, and become cold, add to it three or four Spoonfuls of good Ale to make it work . . . and when the Test begins to settle, bottle it up . . . it is gentle, and very harmless in operation within the body, and exceedingly sharpens the Appetite, being drunk ante pastum. Anybody made anything like it?

Place names: Birkenhead (Wirral) ‘ headland where birch grows’, Birchwood (Cheshire) Berkesdon (Hertfordshire) ‘birch valley’ Birkdale (Lancashire) ‘birch valley’, Birchington (Kent) Much & Little Birch (Herefordshire), Birchanger (Essex) ‘birch wood on a slope’

http://arbtalk.co.uk/forum/firewood-forum/12687-birch-cord-wood-price.html

Ecological relationships of birch As pioneer species, one of the important functions which birch trees fulfil in ecosystems is that of improving soils. They are deep-rooted, and their roots draw up nutrients into their branches and leaves, which the trees use for their growth. Some of these nutrients are returned to the surface of the soil each year when the leaves fall in the autumn, thereby becoming available for other organisms in the forest community. An indication of the scale and significance of this nutrient cycling can be drawn from the estimate that birch trees will produce between 3 and 4 tonnes of leaf litter per hectare per year. In an undisturbed forest ecosystem, birches would be replaced by slower growing species such as oak and Scots pine, but in Scotland today this successional process has been interrupted in most places by human exploitation of the land.

Great photo's David.....where were the pollards?

Have you not heard of cut and paste Mr Oakman?

Marssonina Betulae Marssonina betulae is a common foliar pathogen on birch throughout Europe, causing characteristic leaf spots as well as lesions on young shoots. The fungus infects leaves and young shoots in spring and summer via asexual spores called conidia, which are likely spread by rainsplash from overwintering infected leaf material. Previously, damage caused by this fungus was thought to be limited to leaves and young, small shoots, and its degree of aggressiveness was considered to be weak (Peace, 1962; Bäucker and Eisenhauer, 2001). In this study, M.betulae was found inhabiting diseased shoots at all five WGS sites sampled in 2002, causing necrotic lesions on 63% of diseased 4–5 month old shoots collected in September (Green, 2004). Also, inoculation of silver birch seedlings with M. betulae resulted in the development of secondary stem cankers (Figure 7), which continued to expand months after initial infection, causing extensive shoot dieback and the death of some seedlings (Green, unpublished). These results indicate that M. betulaeis more damaging to birch than the literature currently suggests.thestromatal tissues dry up and drop out of the cankers, leaving deep fissures in shoots and branches (Figure 5), which are indicative of older infections by A. virgultorum.

sounds cool. look forward to seeing the photo's:thumbup: