Tony Croft aka hamadryad

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

Examples of such 6ft wide 12 ft long pieces? Of similar timber?

 

Ive worked sub contract for famous cabinet makers who sell the £30,000 tables, {that had there name on but they never touched.} {15 plus years ago..}

 

Those timbers were rather special, & the proportions rather good.

Thats a great comment, and rather telling....

I loved the piece too, some folk cant see the wood for the tree

spot on tony

I actually pinched the picture from an old post of yours from about 4 years back.

I came across it when I was trying to find difficult ID pictures.

I thought it may have been a bit harder for the ones who are a bit better at this than me.

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!

happy customers = good feed back, always remember your only as good as your last job !!!, keep up the good work

thats so true, last job

Tony's right on Porcelain.....and the other one?

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

What's this then?

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:

And one more from me

this one you meant didnt you, porcelain fungus oudemansiella mucida

porcelain

or fulva

A crocea

amanita

Maybe, maybe not

 

 

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the glistening inkcap, coprinus micaceus

my hiab lives on a mog !, it goes where landys fear to tread....lol..set up purposely for the milling akward to get timber, and if its to tricky, the winch pulls 5 ton over to where it can be worked

damn damn damn now ive got to find one!

at least offer one a decent chalenge what what

great post ben

need to get yourself something with a hiab on it Tony, best investment I ever made, can lift the logs onto the mill, and the cut slabs off, and then place the finished bits into place

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

Is it right to suggest the tree is adding strength by bulking up the buttresses each side of where the cavity was.

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 thought I recalled Gerritt saying that Merip needed live roots to fruit. If this is the case and I, like others, have seen it fruiting on long dead stumps, could this be further evidence/suggestion of the 'two types of Merip' theory?

Maybe I'm just remembering wrong anyway, but if not does anybody know where there 'live roots necessary' info came from, or was it simply Gerritt's experience?

 

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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

I have a client who lives by a communal garden in Dulwich and 4 years ago he asked me to look at a beech tree with fungi growing around the base. It was meripulus and the tree was removed by another company.

 

He has emailed some photos today showing the merip fruiting bodies appearing, not sure if the stump was removed or not, but how long can merit live off the roots? he is concerned the newly planted tree could be under threat (not sure what species at the moment). Coukld this be the case?

 

Cheers...Al

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!

Ha ha!

 

 

And yes the winch is loverly isn't it - well done for getting round to fitting it Tony (vid here if anyone needs

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I have a theory that if there is a load of home grown rustic made furniture out there then it will stimulate demand so that customers will then be asking for it 'ie we've seen a bench like so and so - can you make one'

 

 

 

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:

Dont give it all away Rob!

By the way, loving the winch new bar and chain sharpener, first run as smooth as silk, revolution baby!

dont want these boys flooding the market now do we!