Tony Croft aka hamadryad

when i saw you had replied I thought I better not reply to this one or one of the crew will have a last word and close before I could reply! Andy, Trust me mate, ive no ill wills anywhere, there was a time i was a bit stressed that i was getting old and was nothing more than manual labour, that is no longer the case, it was a mental thing, the build up to 40. Ive turned the corner, im 40 and over it and have the ear and support of ALL my peers, my dreams are as they was set out, and I am a very happy and content individual. I will always be around because there is so much to do, so much to say, and to effect. wether i am here or over there wont stop me helping others understand issues that I have the capacity to help with, thats in my nature, and Im deeply passionate about it so couldnt stop even if i wanted to. people want to pay me for stuff I give for free and its hard for me to accept, i am used to having to produce an end product not give my opinions for a wage. It may seem strange but it seems strange and alien Taking money without having gotten a strain or dirty nails for it! But im coming to terms with it, others have a higher opinion of my worth than I do and I wanted to be in the u.k in my homeland familiar ground, but its time to open my mind. My visit to Romania really did help that proscess a lot, and theres a whole new world, culture and ecosystem to study photograph and share with the at crew and i need some new material! you wouldnt believe some of the offers ive had the last 2 years, its mental, I still worry that my rep is greater than my real worth! but thats my personal issue, thats my only real problem to deal with. self belief, its a beeeearch:blushing:

Not all black deposits like this are armillaria sp, but a very vast majority are. Its rare to see the toadstools, armillarias rely far more on cords to travel around and tend to fruit far less frequently than most others. Trees bleeding from armillaria attack is a common affair and often its very minor, a single channel, and nothing to get alarmed about. Its like a sleeper, and really gets its foot in the door till stress enables it to really get in. In this case deer damage and drought

Andy Im over the dreams mate, my life is stagnant? you gotta be kidding me, i have been turning stuff down. quasi- political posturing, and you lot wonder why I have an opinion on AT! I tell you what Andy, when the likes of me have all but assigned ourselves to accept a Euro job offer thats so far and removed from my U.K potential and pay grade and leave you all to your own devices its not I that needs to listen, its YOU. The U.K is backwards, and until only recent days has talk of european connections and collaboration been spoken of in this area, long overdue.

was trying to track it down, spent the day reading stuff! will find the exact source and return:001_smile:

thats the tree that housed my first ever find, nice sample too, seems to fruit for very long periods and is strong even in the pressence of competitions, really top draw David, great documentation

the bleeding is armillaria, thats your armillaria evidence, the bark damage is from deer, hence the specified deer hieght tree guards. This year we had drought early season, increased this kind of damge from mammals across the board.

I know of only one tree that failed Q. robur/M. giganteus failure. Q.cerris is a bigger problem and treat as with beech with extreme caution, Q. robur/petrea would appear anecdotally to have some resistance and is a far more common occurrence than we would be convinced of from the literature alone. and as you hint is often miss identified because of the latter:001_rolleyes:

thats why your a good little cash cow for them, you are bought into the PR

Oh Tonys throwing his toys out, that doesnt happen too often! My angst isnt about being rejected by the man tony, I became the man! long done with such petty rubbish:thumbup: some of us change over time and grow as we go. Did I rebrand the site? corr I must be clever, I do apologise old bean, lets get out the journals and see how popular the threads are, say against new rigging winches for whole tree removals goes! And I do come and go as i please, and say what im thinking too, thats the joy of being my own man and not somebodies mod bod!

lol:lol:

thats pretty serious dude, best you contact the FC just had a better look, deer damage with armillaria secondary

so its o.k to spend our money lining the opera house with scarlet silk while the forestry commision cant cope under the pressures of Chalara and other pathogen outbreaks? you do realise half them toffs are using tax avoidence and even evasion tactics, that the U>k is the or one of the lowest tax rates in europe as it is? you lot are so naive!

House of Commons Hansard Debates for 12 Nov 2012 (pt 0002)

what exactly are you saying huck?

if we leave the environment up to free markets we will all die, monsato and kin will see to that

the FC produce 70 million in revenue, If wegoing to start saying cant have it all thn we need some figures for revenue INTO PUBLIC PURSES from Opera. and compare input/outputs. sometimes Andy i wonder what planet your on. The environment and mental well being versus a chunky chick screaming her lungs out?

O.K, this isnt a joke, this is for real. the government feel it is appropriate to fund opera (not the arts just Opera) to the tune of 28 million. they want to cut the FC funding from 20 million to 13million. what do you all think of those priorities?

Ive not seen it before

Well Ive been working with some kind of cold/flu/virus all week felt a lot better yesterday and smashed the majority of a 2 dayer but went in with a migraine and feeling sick whenever i opened my eyes or moved, we drove to the job and while the lads got started i had a bit of a snooze while I waited for some pills to kick in... by ten they had it under control and Gordon the little angelsaid they dont need me and drove me home. I wasnt any use to anyone today, sitting here is o.k but as soon as I stand up I know im as weak as a kitten. doing my noodle in now, had enough of being ill, been a week now.

Who cares but scholars who feel anal about such things and feel a need to exert authority or excellence:001_rolleyes: Getting into that much detail on an essentialy tools based forum is only going to detract from the breaking down of the basics, which are to be considered of far greater importance at this level. let the academics squabble over the finer details, they are much better at it:001_tongue:

If this video does not get through to you all we dont stand a chance. If you normaly dont look at the things i post, make this the first, the truth is way scarier than fiction. Seeds of Freedom on Vimeo

I wouldnt concern yourself with the quite frankly pathetic squabbling the scientific community get involved in, used as intended and not with dogma VTA, the body language of trees, and thinking tools after nature are the ground zero of the thinking arborists tool box. They are game changers, aswill also be Gerrits work when it is finally published in English:001_cool:

Good post Sloth, you got a lead on more recent statistics? as for me being a tree, A hamadryad is as close to one as it can posibly be, the very spirit of a tree:001_cool:

as Mr Oliver rackam once said "10 100 year old oaks cannot replace a 1000 year old oak tree" They cant be simply replanted, old trees.

you know what Imsaying, i dont blame you, its down to some of us to make these retentions viable and justifiable so there is no longer ambiguity or uncertainty surrounding it, a difficult cause as were dealing with a living thing. as Claus Mattheck always says "we are dealing with the most difficult type of engineering, the organic"