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  1. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    another chestnut failure with Kretz huh!
  2. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    good lad!
  3. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    Very soon I hope to add 5 kindles loaded with a series of choice titles! classy, bookclubs going digital and you get more volumes in one go! the idea will be for longer term loaning hence the five devices. I cant wait!
  4. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    ITS MINE all mine! just ordered this after lusting for an age, next up rackam ancient woods!
  5. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    and armillaria loves that situation:thumbup:
  6. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    Some corkers from my county of Herts all these are 5+ diameter at the base:thumbup: One of my all time fave species to pollard, they make awesome pollards
  7. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    easy one!
  8. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    its down to the woman to do several drops, a woman has to be at the other end each time
  9. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    really good advice.
  10. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    that would be a conservative estimate IMO:thumbup1: it is a fine and healthy tree, its probably that fusion you describe that stopped the cavity from weakening the core of that mighty union of the twin stems:001_cool:
  11. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    im taking the micheal out of those who would say what they might when i say this sounds like Armillaria on an initial no photographic basis! lets see some images fella:thumbup1:
  12. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    This Oaks been doing the limbo solo since its partner stem fell away and rotted away, lots of shellbuckling and the ribs are now tension struts. failures in trees happen often this way, very slowly, like a fluid and gracefull movement, body languages are not always so loud though, this ones easy to read. Let the trees tell their story, if you listen they will usualy have a great deal to tell you about how they are doing. would you judge a man before having a conversation?
  13. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    pants on fire?
  14. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    I would answer but I will get bashed for repeating an often used diagnosis!
  15. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    in fact I will cease opinions till I have PTI and indemnity then I will come back with a vengence, twice as fierce! lol
  16. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    I will ask an expert if it is required or wise that I PI up for contributions then:001_tt2:
  17. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    aargh you mean the one from the OP! grifola possibly at play rather than dryadeus in this case, though not 100%, theres no butress seperations and the root compensation is lower than most dryadeus cases
  18. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    I see nutting dude!
  19. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    halting something or someone jesse?
  20. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    indeed in fact nearly all the fattest oldest trees have been, heres one I found saturday, an old 16century village green complete with remaining old ash pollard, still in healthy sound condition thanks to some well minded individual having the good sense to do a reduction which is hard to see but clearly saved the tree from losing pollard stems and now makes a fine tree though in need of a rework now some fifteen to 20 years since reduced IMO this tree is way older than it looks, is big enough for me to climb inside the hollow trunk and swing a cat! oh, and has been colonised by Ganoderma applanatum to such a degree and duration total hollowing has occurred.
  21. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    wicked! and yeah the big oak thread! cool idea! we will have to have a big beech thread too!
  22. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    why? were all responsible for our OWN actions, doesnt need a caveat, blaming the forum is unlikely to stand in court even without that caveat. If people are under the illusion they can say anything free from consequences in a public forum they are very very silly! mind you internet and the law is a very new business so maybe your right
  23. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    The point of the whole thread was to avoid "needless" felling, because reductions can and will in the vast majority of cases see a tree retained safely sometimes for long enough that everyone grows old and senile and forgets or dies, leaving the tree to grow in peace! we are but short flames, a tree can live through our entire ages, there are trees that saw the first Christians arrive, and watched them build their churches within their rootzones!
  24. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    sorry sam, missed it, been a mad pace this one! what was it?
  25. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    ha ha ha

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