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  1. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    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.
  2. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    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:
  3. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    thats why your a good little cash cow for them, you are bought into the PR
  4. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    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!
  5. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    lol:lol:
  6. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    thats pretty serious dude, best you contact the FC just had a better look, deer damage with armillaria secondary
  7. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    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!
  8. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    House of Commons Hansard Debates for 12 Nov 2012 (pt 0002)
  9. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    what exactly are you saying huck?
  10. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    if we leave the environment up to free markets we will all die, monsato and kin will see to that
  11. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    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?
  12. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    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?
  13. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    Ive not seen it before
  14. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    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.
  15. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    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:
  16. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    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
  17. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    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:
  18. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    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:
  19. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    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.
  20. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    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"
  21. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    ive heard many over the years argue over these concepts, both hold true IMo I dont think anyones scientificaly chalenged the axiom, and would be daft to, to be frank. I am not as concerned by the arguments as I used to be, i settled the arguments for myself in nature, and am happy with the methods of tree evaluation, both old, in The body language of trees, and in newer releases by Prof claus mattheck.
  22. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    go for it, it will go beserk
  23. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    reluctant to fell but its felled, this is a crime.
  24. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    if you had to own three books of arboriculture this would be in them, so yeah, very special
  25. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    the axiom of uniform stress and the T/r theory both are valid

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