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  1. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    absolutely no problem Brett, its not you persay but the downward spiral of death that will ensue when the conversation begins as to how many % this is! this is a forum remember! I am getting a little wise to forums and the way in which the games play out!
  2. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    you boys! good job I like a bit of banter huh! Dali Hama, mmmmmm I could use that! more like Dali fungali Hama!
  3. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    Not like the one with the caliper, this is a reiterative root, but It is not one of the ones I was describing which look more like this. here we can see Meripilus doing its thing, and decaying the underside of the bigger main root into a horsheo like form with 45 degree approx re iterative roots coming from the occlusion rolls. Thes act as shear kill in the root plate. I would want personaly to see as many of these as possible going down into the soil at 45 degrees approx, I guess there would be an optimum number per square metre of shear root ball area I can only at this stage guess as to the number required and I would want at least half a dozen in a few square feet of rooting area, indicating good vigour and vitality, and making good adjustments to loads.
  4. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    hello Paul, Im very well thanks, things are going better than I could really ask for currently. least in some ways! theres always something to moan about isnt there? fingers crossed for a dry and eventful summer next year!
  5. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    nice example,dont see it on beech that often, hornbeams and birch more commonly:thumbup1:
  6. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    I make a decision in my mind whether i can work the spec into a sensible and reasonable compromise to the trees and clients best interests and if i think its not remotely workable I pipe up or if i can and i often can I work with it and its rarely disappointing to anyone involved. you cant treat two trees the same its just not cricket
  7. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    we operate on \standard known as BS 3998 in it you will find % has been superseded by a more accurate technical description,removing the confusions where % was fraught with miss-translations. Thats the theory anyway,reality is VERY different!
  8. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    BBC - Podcasts - Farming Today
  9. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    I just tweeted the page link mate, well worth wider eyes having this one in their scopes for thoughts.
  10. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    This is very good news, and i sincerely hope all goes well guys, sounds like the right attitude, sustainable is a word that gets abused, keep it real guys:thumbup1:
  11. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    Nice crepidotus sp david and a prize image of Podo, awesome shot, made me green!
  12. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    17th is BMS!
  13. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    Spiffing good post Mark, top draw!
  14. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    will do
  15. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    whatever happens, get loads of photos and document it, and come back later with the news:thumbup1:
  16. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    I think Davids hunch is spot on, this is what is commonly reffered to as Eiffel tower syndrome or body language, and very very typical of Inonotus dryadeus. and I can only re iterate Davids comments:thumbup1:
  17. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    well thats not what the ICF chief said, they are ignoring the research of the swedes and going ahead with advising a scorched earth policy on Chalara, this is as weall seem to be in agreement on, totaly unacceptable. learn to credit where its due and I might give you the benifit of the doubt! I dont get into those conversations anymore, its so pre 2010! and so a wast of time,the sooner we stop talking % the better:thumbup:
  18. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    average 12 rings to the inch 3.2mtrs circumference equal to 102 cm DBH or around 380 years old give or take! Im trying to document all I can of the ash now before chalara takes hold stupid question! sounds a bit overkill a small gransfors forest axe would be more my style! Nice one Danavan:thumbup1:
  19. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    absolutely, and we need to think in ecological time frames, not in the here and now. they want to burn the potentially resistant ones too, They said the containment is priority and outweighs the risk of losing resistant cohorts! Im going nuts......this is insane
  20. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    ash die back Chalara fraxinea- and why we must not condone the eradication policy, it is here now, lets give nature a chance to find a way. Trees that thrive amid killer fungus hold secret to saving threatened ash - Telegraph
  21. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    carefull what you wish for silky! global warming doesnt just mean extreme dry or heat, it also means extreme cold and I mean arctic! I can remember climbing trees as a teenager in freezing temps, im too long in the tooth to be going through all that again!
  22. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    great, lets hope my new job is offered asap! then I can stay by the puter all winter!
  23. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    agreed, but a very very rare situation indeed. I dont know if I updated it yet but what i thought was Meripilus at height turned out to be Polyporus durus, so shall not assume too much at height in future, got to get up there every time to be sure.
  24. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    Proper pollards!
  25. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    best laid plans of mice and men, 2011 come and gone, as did 2012, best pull my finger out and get a quote for insurance!

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