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  1. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    It may be in your quadrant but I had to go to your area and kent to see it, and for the Inonotus obliquos too
  2. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    Ive seen a few NT specs of late that make my blood boil too:thumbdown:
  3. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    I think its a reasonable statement David, we have to go to very special sites to see Fommes in the south do we not? though Kent seems to be a strong hold for Fommes in the south. It would be interesting to re investigate its distribution. I thinkj there is a research project here for somebody, looking into Chaga AKA Inonotus obliquous and Fommes. Two fungi that have very odd distributions
  4. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    this is priceless.
  5. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    why why why, youll draw attention to it, highlight the tree, then it will be noticed and complained about, LEAVE BE!
  6. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    youve got the job!
  7. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    having had many experiences I can say David is absolutley spot on there with a written C.V it can be the difference between an interview and nothing.
  8. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    a more holistic environmentally viable and sound practice maybe? shall have a look for research on it:thumbup:
  9. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    there is potentialy a job coming up with Charlie, might be a cool job and a chance to meet up:thumbup1:
  10. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    leave it alone, it will look exactly the same 40 years from now, its having a rest
  11. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    good for you, how fr out do you work Felix? was with Charlie today, was an awesome day:thumbup1:
  12. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    awesome!
  13. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    It is a natural instinct to fear heights, add rot, a chainsaw and suspend yourself on a thin 11mm rope and the fear is understandable! you get over it rapid, no time to think about it most of the time and you soon learn to ignore your instinct!
  14. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    http://www.knepp.co.uk/Other_docs/interesting_articles_papers/black_poplar_species_action_plan_for_sussex.pdf http://frontpage.woodland-trust.org.uk/ancient-tree-forum/atfresources/images/20081204115143118.pdf
  15. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    would not concern me, but I know nowt.
  16. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    no, but I would assume a layer of pure carbon would be a niche for very few organisms of the fungal kind, like rhizina
  17. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    I certainly try but im awful, though not as bad as some. it is a good point, hard when the stress kicks in!
  18. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    I have to agree (shock horror) with Dean, you are a natural teacher David. some very very good and interesting questions there, Trees tend to do fairly well in-spite of such events given enough time to recover and enough residual wall thickness. CODIT wal 4 is probably re instigated at such an event as it is in a pollard, shock and dysfunction induced. though that as you allude to take energy from the system, trees tend to use energy in defence last in the chain of priorities so if the budget is low, defence is weak. I think this oak will be O.k, but oaks are hardy and even lightning rarely hurts them terminally, Ash and beech for example fair less well in these situations.
  19. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    I need say little here as gibbon has ( as would be expected) delivered solid advice. IME, you will as is said get the brunt of the work on one else is man enough for, thats to YOUR advantage, bottle nothing (within reason), moan about nothing (unless they know you and you can have a joke whine!) bring in your own kit, including a basic rigging kit (Capstan heavy and light ropes and a few slings and pulleys, have a medium saw as well as your lopper, even a spare lopper for unforeseen eventualities) KNOW YOUR OWN WORTH, and dont let anyone take the michael out of you, they want your skills! Look after yourself and your interests, no one will look after you better than you! and enjoy it, welcome to freelancing
  20. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    Good post Paul, agree totally. There is little to go on with regards to asses what is "truly" required here, the feelings of the client are an essential part of the assessment of whats needed as is the condition of the tree, neither of which we have any idea of yet. some basic questions here to help us help you would be as follows- 1) what is the clients main concern with these trees? 2) What is the structural/physiological condition of the trees? 2) will require either many more images or a site visit or both
  21. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    ha ha ha teach me to read! thought we was talking about a sycamore!
  22. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    thats a Goat willow David! missed that image before:thumbup1:
  23. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    An amazing day for a tree geek today, its a rare tree that gets me knocking on peoples front doors but this old ash pollard, and I mean OLD just wasnt going to be left un-appreciated! Homage was paid to this old warrior. That was not the end, or even the begining of this epic, no... behemoth of a day! I wont show all, youll have to buy the book! Laetiporus sulphureus and G. applanatum Perenniporia fraxinea and I. hispidus side by side
  24. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    the old brackets are almost certainly Inonotus cuticularis too, above.
  25. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    shall have a peek at that later, ta.

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