Tony Croft aka hamadryad

looks odd, hybrid vigour

that may well be brown oak going on that growth form

you two are birds of a feather

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Yea was just for a bit of fun really but the feedback i have had has been good. Its for a friends housewarming pressie.

 

I'm in the process of looking at suitable venues for the exhibition and then inviting submissions. I really want be a celebration of trees through various mediums. Film, sculpture, painting etc. Would like it to be educational as well so thinking over what directions and contributors could possibly be involved. I'm quite passionate about it so hopefully it will all come together.

you should ask Paul Sun, the mans got a gift:thumbup1:

Hi tony you need a wide angle UJ mate thanks Jon

Yes, afer trying to fit a 70mm normal UJ I had to phone Craddocks and it seems that I have a wide angle prop hence the 95mm UJ that I was trying to replace made the 75mm a loose one!

So lesson learned, grease, grease and yet more grease, then grease it again! done me a tube of grease doing both landies today:lol:

Since you acquired this vehicle and threw it into the fray, did you grease the U/J,s, or any other routine maintenance?

 

Thought not......how's the timing belt by the way?????

Your spot on, but then Im still in the learning phase of landrover ownership!

I have never been a mechanical kind of guy but took on the landies to educate myself in as basic a way as pssible, and have to say while chalenging me I am learning a lot, even started on the filling of minor dents today!

So I am either very unlucky or this is a major and regular issue!

PROPSHAFT UJ on my new aquisition failed! this 110 must be lifted at least 4 inch its so high! took her down to dartmoor for a trial before a long journey to Bulgaria in a few weeks and well i never, I felt the tell tale vibration near home on the M25, nursed her back in one checked out the UJ just now and sure enough she is as loose as a hoars knickers!

So for all those that say a double cardon prop aint needed i say Phuh!

Spruce is not much better for wood worm , poplars a underrated timber IMO and you won't get covered in sap milling it.

agreed, ive seen some very nice furniture turned out of aspen recently.

got a 4ft thick lump that im gonna mill soon as its dried out a little, worth consideration as 4 inch thick tables IMO

Note to self: Must try harder!

 

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ease yourself into it boy, stamina takes time to build:lol:

I think the longest hunt I ever went on was with Tobias, 6am to 6pm! but it was epic!

Yes, I believe I have.

In early perennial fruit body formation where there is high level of hydration the flesh (context) can be fairly 'spongy' in some species before it dries and becomes fibrous

 

 

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nerd!

Well that's two fungal fanatics voting Gano. Have either of you noted the extreme stretching on any species before?

 

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No I havent, but then I generaly see a gano and move on! my tinkering is long over these days!

and personaly I would hazard at australe rather than applanatum/lipsiense on this one, not that its really viable to guess at photos on these two

im with david, defo a gano

I am constantly amazed at the variation we see in the morphological appearance of fungal species.

 

An interesting example is Laetiporus

Here in the UK it's listed as one species (L. sulphureus) but it has at least six species in the US.

How many forms of this do we see out there here, on the same host let alone the variety on different hosts.

 

Laetiporus cincinnatus, the white-pored chicken of the woods, Tom Volk's Fungus of the Month for July 2001

 

I'm aware of some work going on that's looking at this here in the UK.

 

 

As for Mr Forbes-Lairds monograph, I have no reason to doubt his theory and have it in mind often when making decisions on a number of hosts with Meripilus that I've been watching/managing with the association for many years now.

 

http://www.flac.uk.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/Monograph-on-Meripilus-giganteus.pdf

 

Disappointingly, there appears to be no scientific research being carried out since/currently (that I'm aware of) to prove the hypothesis one way or the other.

 

It's a shame that the 'National Meripilus Network' died on its feet before it really got going.

 

 

 

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17 at last count in fact:001_cool:

I reckon you're right, that is very sound reasoning.

 

I've been scything on and off for about 40 years (gulp!) and didn't know what it was called nor, it seems, what it was really for, though I was aware of course that it kept grass from getting caught between the heel of the blade and the snath.

 

I've just bought a new snath for a rather nice old blade I have been given and wanted to fit a grass nail.

 

Thank you all for your advice and help, much appreciated!

 

(Although not fashionable I am a big fan of scything and reckon it's quicker (and quieter) than a brushcutter. Also it is much safer if you have to work near animals since you can hear, and can put the blade on the ground instantly to make it safe.)

I bought a scythe a while back, as my partner and I (mostly I) move into a more back country way of life im strating to realise modernity isnt always improvement!

Rather than old fashioned I would say it is the coolest way to cut straw/grass and wheat

Goody or baddy??

a VERY GOOD QUESTION REGARDING ALL THE COLYBIAS, NOTHING CONCRETE THOUGH c. FUSIPES APPEARS FROM THE OUTSIDE TO HAVE SOME PARASITIC QUALITIES

newish resinaceum!

dry rot fungus of homes, seprula lacramans will not be found in your wood pile, if your LUCKY you might find the wild serpula the S. himantoides in the wood pile

on a monkey! thats a new one!

a modern pollard is a young one, and ancient pollard was not done the same way. many opinions divide over the subject, best to read all the opinions and draw ones own conclusions!

great question!

Oak Tony

 

 

 

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pore colour?

of course one would need to consent to being fined on the spot, give it some thought please, before you give your name and them joinder, before you "understand" (stand under in legalese)

anyone running their 200/300Tdi's on Bio diesel?

a few good looking fung from a walk this arvo......

 

Leccinum aurantiacum - the americans call the Red-capped Scaber Stalk, here associating with aspen

Amanita rubescens - the Blusher, associating with hornbeam

Unknown Boletus species

Polyporus squamosus - the Dryads saddle on beech

Gymnopilus junonius - the Spectacular Rustgill, associating with dysfunctional hornbeam root

& Amanita phalloides - the Death Cap, associating with lime

 

 

 

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was the unkown near pines? B. granulatus?

Having a whle of a time out and about this year, really fine year.

I used to put folk off the eating side of things but do you know what, knock yourselves out, just use your common sense and take what you need and no more.

take his arm off! just what I am looking for

Ive had to stop milling today due to being a bit short as they say, im running the 46" INCH SUGI ON MY 088 BUT IT AINT DOING THIS OAK!

Have you got a bar 56 +