Tony Croft aka hamadryad

From little acorns do big oaks grow, not every branch will become a limb or a stem, some will fail, wither and die. but eventualy it becomes dominant in the landscape, wethering all storms, strong, why "robust" we will find way into the light:biggrin:

heres some stonkers from the Dartmoor or rather the river Dart Rhea:001_cool: I have a sneaky feeling one of my mentors is going to want one of these! A very interesting historic site, a lime kiln right on the edge (ruins) I suspect that they would drive the boats right under the overhanging trees and pollard them into the boats, making transportation easy. As I am sure also the Lime stone for the kilns would have been transported to site for burns, then shipped out again as finished product. humans are very resourceful at limiting work!

I remember going it alone for the first time, exciting time for you. my advice, in order of priority. 1) be honest and true 2) help your fellow arbs when they need you. be kind to trees and understanding the ignorant folks you meet (I need that one much!) 3) Bolt down your gear like your life depends on it, dont EVER think youll be fine, you wont, they will rob you till your finished. 4) put 25% OF EVERYTHING YUO TAKE IN A 30 DAY NOTICE ACCOUNT FOR TAX ETC, DONT BE TEMPTED EVER! 5) make the effort to learn something new for just a few hours a week. 6) remain strong when things are tough, when jobs are hard to come by 7) price yourself right, dont work for nothing, pay attention to profit ratios and dont compromise. 8) be lucky.

And any arbtalker is welcome to come to my house and borrow a book with a security holding

It is still to this day my greatest regret that this killed the whole concept/idea for me, if people knew the expense I went to to provide second copies, a good friend even donated a pile of VERY expensive books to the cause. They will one day be avaliable again but not till ive worked out how to do it free but safe and fair, particulary for those with out financial resources

Im really looking forward to making working pollards a strong feature at my Bulgarian second home:thumbup1: also preserving and encouraging the locals own in the common lands and wood pastures there will be much posting in the future of this epic adventure no doubt

Sean will be the last loaner for this book, this thread and book has now ended, due to a lack of interest.

Oh yeah baby, thats soooo on my to get list!

I see what you guys mean! the yoke is tough to find! found a TD5 prop for 100, is that really my only option?

cheers mate:biggrin: i know what your saying but the shafts o.k, and 150 pound complete!

So its a yoke at the back, sweet and thank you, just been looking at the UJ parts easy source and find:thumbup1: would you buy a rubber plate as well for the yoke?

Got a question for the mechanically minded! Drive shaft UJ failure yesterday, question is can I get away with a new male UJ pin and female union both damaged, rather than a whole new shaft and if so whats the right name for these parts and whats the best source for getting them. This is my first issue and looking to learn a lot as issues like this arise! thanks in advance, I know some of you guys are mustard!

took me a long time to find another after mine was "borrowed" lesson learned and an essential in ones library, wouldnt be without it, most influential book of my life.

Yes I do, the industry doesnt recognise it as legitimate work though, its "sub standard":lol:

Always start with species specifics, as the guys before stated, P. robustus is an Oak fungus, whereas this is on willow, and would be 100% P. igniarius without spore evaluation under a microscope. The host lights the way, the fungal genus can be worked out easily, the genus of host and fungi is the guiding foundation, only overruled by Microscopic evaluation thereafter

It does take about 3-5 years for sure, to begin with your using your muscle only, no experience to make it easier, then over the years you learn that there is an easy way and a bloody hard way to do each scenario you'll come across. Ensuring you dont cover the same ground twice is one of the more difficult things to master, no climber likes climbing a stem twice to get to a branch that would have been easier earlier in the day! Learning that big broad canopies are best tackled from top to bottom in segments, quartered or 8ths for example. and the muscles required take time to develop along with it the stamina and the art of pacing oneself. Getting the right anchor point for the most flexible amount of moves in one go, learning just what you need to take up and NOT, cos lets face it some folk just like to look like christmas trees and thats not what a seasoned arborist wants! theres a reason! There is no substitute for just getting up there and cracking on, its like the tree itself, i mean the energy balance, you have a budget at the start, manage that well and youll get to the finish line in comfort, manage it badly and youll be back to finish the job in the morrow! I dont know if there is a way of teaching the art of it, we all have natural abilities and arb is one of those things youll either excel at or struggle on with wondering why others seem to be more successful or just have an easier time of it. I see so many struggling, moaning about the job the life, the agro, while others have a blast enjoy it and make good money. Everyone no matter how they are taught will develop their own style, there is no right or wrong, just an efficient and successful completion

I know, thats what I found s funny!

Gutted, Ive seen many of my old fave beech entish friends fall this year more than all the last ten combined, but this one hurt. The Frishden beech, one of the worlds finest beech trees EVER:001_cool:RIP old timer

and if you think boletes are tough try russulas!

yes indeed, always break the flesh on the boletes and time the reaction and colour smell the stipe all kinds of difficulties on these, i still get it wrong especially:blushing: with the red pored ones

Shes getting the Hang of it all now! Debra with a big Laeti!

a hover fly imitating a bee

I never thought I would actually see one with my own eyes! ***FREE***FREE***FREE*** Fresh Ash Wood | eBay Ive gotta follow this and see if anyone is mad enough!

Looks like ATF probably cant help on an individual tree basis, get all the local stake holders/residents in on the problems and get their approval and that of the local T/A Im going to approach a friend and see if we can get some dynamic bracing at cost I can bring mulch and wood for adding a ring of fencing. Any arisings from pruning will have to be left in the common scrub I can see around the back there. I am more than happy to do this work gratis, just get all involved and backing it then once the leaves are off we can get her sorted out.

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