Tony Croft aka hamadryad

trouble is the organisers would be slated for being job creationists!

i would have liked to but tight budgets at this time of year after a seasons mental quest and cpd acquisitions!

I think i will be going for it next year, got to stop climbing full time and I couldnt stomach BS5837 surveys, I dont know how them consultants can do these day in day out its their bread and butter! I will still do "special trees" for my contacts as a freelance but thats it. this line of work sounds like it would suit me better than most might imagine.

Thanks Barkin, my budget for CPD has been well and truly hammered for this season/year but next year, well I may just have to look at doing these, my retirement plan (semi!) just took a new angle!

well my good friends, the season is once more upon us, and I hope at some stage this autumn to catch up and visit you all for some woodland shananigans as always! dont be strangers, I always look forward to seeing you all and running havoc on your various sites! heres to a new seasons bounty, good friends and lots of banter! and Tobias, I have something EPIC lined up for you this year!

thanks fella:thumbup1: have to confess this was the last industry sector I thought I might end in!

thanks for this reply, thats an almost ideal situation for my future! time to look at this with serious effort. any other tickets experience etc one would need? all the arranging paperwork travel etc is no issue at all as I already have run my own business for five years, and loved the dealing with accesses and people stuff, dont get that part now as an employee.

arent they all "basic"?

two possible candidates in my opinion Phaeolus and fomitopsis pinicola hard to be certain would go with the former but not too sure how common P. shweinitzii is on spruce

the TO would have little idea it existed in the first place without a TPO and the planning dept even less of a clue! in fact planning depts and TOs rarely consult each other IME!

Im jelous too!

I would think soapy water would work too

good info Callum, shall have a better read of that later

Hi guys and girls, due to our young apprentice Tom leaving for devon on a permannet basis on the 14th we are looking for a new climber. This is a full time position, the usual work situations, lots of connie bashing reductions and the odd interesting bit of veteran work. Naturaly this position means youll have to put up with my constant banging on about fungi decay and ecology! the others have learnt to ignore me so its doable for sure! The candidate will need to be a bit switched on, and able to top a hedge to a clean line, and be at least half way to being a good reducer, we can get you the other half the way to our level. Pay is dependant on experience and tickets, obviously if your a bit short on those we will have to invest heavily in you for some months before we can justify a fully experienced ready to rock and roll arb, of one thing you can be sure were not a bad crew to work with, we enjoy a banter and we have staedy reliable breaks and always done by 5pm:thumbup1: Theres a lot worse places to work, of that you can be certain! so drop me a line in here tell me about yourself, what your capable of what you would like to learn/be and aspire to in this industry etc and we can take it from there.

I always think about bats living in hazard beams and other crack defects suffering fatalities due to movements. That poor old mousey! got himself in a shear crack, that was bound to end in disaster!

Most likely a combination of regular hard faced clips and the soft fleshy regrowths being heavily aphid attacked because of the so sof new shoots. it is an increasing problem and there is only one way to deal with it (naturaly) and that is to not be so tight on the clip. That has a downside in that the hedge eventualy becomes very wide, and the leylands cannot be "restored" like a Yew beech or Thuja hedge

sounds like a slime mold of some description

yes, if it Perenniporia it will certainly panic reproduce but even then only if its become sexualy active with another sexualy compatible mycelium of the same fungus

I didnt read the article Guy, not yet, so I was refering to my reply to your post not the article, just wanted to be certain what you was saying or getting at. A follow up shot of my beech in this thread is going to be taken as soon as I relocate the road. One things is certain it will be looking dandy this year! all that rain

IMO Davids assessment of this situation is spot on rob, though there is no guarantee without a scope and a close up look, preferably with a fungal isolation in culture. The green is the reaction zone, ash lime and maples have a green hue to reaction zonations, which also hints at the capacity of the fungal entity.

If I was certain how to read what you wrote and understand it with the intent YOU set it out in I would reply, but making an assumption based on a little confusion and an unclear idea of what that all implies would result in trouble! make your points again for me Guy.

THATS the spelling! good lad

you can ave it all then!

neither is my current position! work is work, and this sounds like it does not involve connie bashing!

There seems to always be these ua5 surveyors posts going! what is it, might go and do a ticket!