Tony Croft aka hamadryad

no, but then it is a first cut, I persist, maintain a little faith, there is at least one board in that tree that will pay handsomely for the work in getting her free fromthe hulk. Yes, it was a nice tree, but it will also get to live on in some way too

the discussion really should be why are we all climbers and groundies alike on the same ball park figure as 10 years ago?

Thats a great comment, and rather telling.... I loved the piece too, some folk cant see the wood for the tree

I must be losing my touch normaly recognise my own images, been doing this too long I guess, there is so many thousands of imagesout in the ether now! Its all good, fungi are now a big subject in arboriculture, discussed as if they was never out of the frame. I am on the next mission now!

thats so true, last job

not really getting the resolution to tell, are we looking at the pore layer?

this one is unusual in old blighty, its lentinus tigrinus, down as a polypore in ryvardens but gilled, low records associated too. good show:thumbup1:

this one you meant didnt you, porcelain fungus oudemansiella mucida

porcelain

or fulva

A crocea

amanita

the glistening inkcap, coprinus micaceus

damn damn damn now ive got to find one!

at least offer one a decent chalenge what what

great post ben

you wouldnt get a hiab to the timber im moving:thumbup1: A landy and a trailer is the only way out for the kind of wood im saving from the wood burner

if its just nails mill on through em! lots of pip in that there Oak. I could turn a buck or two on that

yes, but these things are also exagerated by that being the only area of active growth in an otherwise dysfunctional area

i would pay a 100 if it could be milled onsite, bottom 20ft

I think your not far off the mark, certainly in my experience there is anecdotal evidence to suggest maybe genotypes having one mode or the other. Its like say Amanitas giving up thier saprotrophic capacities to focus on myco only, maybe many species are in transitions. There is a lot of science backing that idea up directly and indirectly, like Stamets finding some forms of Grifola to be impossible to grow on sawdust media while othersflorished.

easy peazey lemon sqeezey G. applanatum

if you look back in this thread Ben Ballard talks of burried beech stumps fruiting heavy for upto 8 years, suggesting a very capable saprotroph. I would not want to replant a site with prone species, especialy Beech.

oh this is a great idea to add to our holiday business in Bulgaria! that last pic is a stonking advert!

yeah I get that part fella, and wouldnt have it anyother way, I think arbs have been missing a trick for many many moons. If I told you how well ive made of the few trees ive downed recently you would be gobsmacked, and when Ive done with this huge commision i will spill the beans on all the details with some pics. aside from the big commision been doing bits and bobs inbetween with timber ive cut, and lots of parts ie hoarded to go with stuff as it comes up, its all a matter of storing till one can make the most of it all. By the Way, the plastic wheels well one of them nearest the exhaust went into a melt down but ive replaced them with two full alloy roller blade wheels. My Mill combo now 56" mill GB 64" bar winch oiler and roller blades makes my life a pure pleasure, though loading 11Ft 2.5 inch thick by 900 wide Bar tops green into the trailer single handed is somewhat of a farm jackers chalenge! thanks for all the videos too, made the transition very easy:thumbup1: