Tony Croft aka hamadryad

really good advice.

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:

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?

I would answer but I will get bashed for repeating an often used diagnosis!

in fact I will cease opinions till I have PTI and indemnity then I will come back with a vengence, twice as fierce! lol

I will ask an expert if it is required or wise that I PI up for contributions then:001_tt2:

halting something or someone jesse?

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.

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

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!

sorry sam, missed it, been a mad pace this one! what was it?

ha ha ha

dont do it jammy, save yourself! run with the pack mate!

anyone who thinks it acceptable to condemn what has been termed recently as "bad trees" which I use in this context to describe what in their (the users) terms means anything rotten and therefore "unhealthy" rot does not equate to Bad or unhealthy, there are few cases when a tree is in danger of imminent collapse and or threat to human life, majority of pathogen infected trees die standing. or break up. healthy trees can and do live for centuries with deep decays and hollow trunks. we can manage trees as hollow remnants in the urban context, if pollarding was a recognised art it might be more utilised for this purpose. I want to live in a world where we allow trees to live through their entire cycles, albeit managed in a safe and viable way, not felled at the first "FC" style deviation of "health" In the forestry journal recently I read "an ash colonised by inonotus hispidus" as "collateral damage by" collateral damage in whos valuation? Arboriculture is a young and developing industry, Forestry is stemmed (pun) from a productivity point of view, any deviation from timber value (old age/mature) is considered non valuable and rubbish. Arboriculture stems from Botany, it is up to us to advance it as an art and science in its own right, for NOONE is expert or master and commander, this is all brand new. which is what makes it such a wonderful thing to be involved with, there are no answers yet, they are yet to be found. we may squabble over the finer details for a couple of centuries, but in the meantime I want to be certain the trees we have today are still there when the arguments finer details are resolved, or there will be nothing worth resolving anything over!

I completely missed this thread before!

Ive just been having a quick scan to see trees with principal decays road side both unmanaged and many managed by me, man alive I cant even begin to contemplate what a loss all those trees would amount to. and there all still there too! I am begining to wonder if its wise talking about fungi and giving the skills to know them well, ive no doubt many would use theze skills to fell trees in thename of HS. ive got to consider that dilema, is education better or worse for the environment? if you lot knew how, what would we lose? when you can read the body language with deep insight what would you do with that knowledge? would you learn jus how common these decays are and relax a litle knowing that we are surrounded, or panic fell everytree you read? man alive that for me is frightening a prospect.

look, i Know I am a yoghurt knitting, tree hugging fungi lover and that you al think im stark raving bonkers (I would not argue!) but were missing the point here and you bloody know it.

now that explosives have been mentioned it will be over subscribed! lmao you wait and see!

defo great colour, go for it. you obviously like it, its loud for sure but youll stand out and people wont forget whos truck it is, branding is sooooooo important, be remembered not blend in.

theres a lad asking about a biomechanics book for collage course but forgotten his name, but he knows who he is and im reserving it next for him as no one appears to be inline? please say if there is and I missed it!

I come across as a lone crusader? Not really, theres loads of folk on this crusade, eventually we will match the fellers and knee jerkers 1-1 instead of 100-1 or maybe its more like 10000-1 who knows, certainly feels like it in my boots at the moment! Stimulating though

thats it, im neither qualified nor insured so Im out thats too much of a threat for my tastes.

Andy, im no intellectual, thats the other Tony's domain, im just trying to do the best I can in a world that seems to be so ready to brush off decisioning that involves a living thing/things.

I think polyporus squamosus more likely here, some plating evident too

indeed, I believe its been a long time since anyone asked for "the body language of trees" should be available immediately?