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  1. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    Chicken of the woods has seen to the limited use for these
  2. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    wonder why it died!
  3. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    Had to have a little look in Whippendell today and was not disappointed at all, she was in a good mood after all the rain and with the damp conditions so were the fungi. Unfortunatley all the rain a little leaf and considerable decay meant that Whip lost one of her grandest old veterans today/yesterday, you might recognise the tree if you follow my threads. This big beech was the one I sat alongside Meripilus giganteus a while back. Ganoderma applanatum and K deusta also in attendance with the gano being the primary decay followed by meripilus and K deusta having no significance in this case. One thing I am very pleased about is my first discovery of a very rare fungi, Trametes trogii (to be confirmed by Kew later) this is the sort of fungi i have been trying for years to find to prove the special nature of the ecology within Whippendell Woods.
  4. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    Not my job by the way This Oak is whats known in the trade as a "roundover" its particularly frowned upon but i have done a few of these in my time for specific reasons. Being easy access I can document this over the years. and several other not so good prunes from my area (mostly council contracts by the way) These are what were talking about when we say poor work/jobs. Though in SOME circumstances it may be necessary, to address structural issues or decay. Pollarding is a separate work specification and the line of willows in this series is pretty traditional management. It can be hard for the amateur to tell the difference between a "lop and top" and a true pollard.
  5. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    nah you just need more practice! I stand corrected, fumosa!
  6. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    It would seem you would like to pin me into a statement here! Natural pollarding happens, but man did it a lot more than nature did and he did it more regularly and more successfully hence our oldest and fattest are man made. I would argue over how it was achieved though!
  7. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    me too!
  8. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    Poor guy hes been done up like a kipper! Ive never seen such such baiting and reckon he must be pouting like no bodies business had a whale of a time reading this one!
  9. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    ha ha ha, well im still hench so fitted for me:lol:
  10. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    wheres your avatar gone? you skinny little pipe cleaner:lol:
  11. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    It is the T/R theory that enabled me to visualise the body languages of certain decay organisms, an even to visualise and prove defect syptoms from brown rots, widely said to not give symptoms!
  12. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    I will rephrase that for paul! ratios of less than 0,3 being the point whereby failure likelihood increases. basicaly what were saying with the T/r ratio is that after and at 70% hollow the likelihood of stem failure via shear stress/buckles/and principle hosepipe kinking occurring increase significantly.
  13. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    were going to need a sharper focus and a closer shot to even have a stab at it!
  14. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    Argh the ones with retrenched/die back canopies, sheltered or pruned, or just happen to be standing at the time of observation, but for how long....... T/R is a very good guideline, and I am really surprised it was ever questioned, I know thats the whole point of science, to question. All I am saying is that if we had a minimum T/r ratio tree with full canopy and did not do anything we would be what? what would you do?
  15. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    freelance in herts, tony 07952948202
  16. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    nice, a place by a river:thumbup1:
  17. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    bonfire damage:thumbdown:
  18. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    well it is true that the oldest fattest survivors are pollards, some a few will however be natural ones.
  19. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    between you me and the fence post:001_rolleyes: Im seeing problems here too, and thats changes in the last ten years. I am certain that something is happening because the principle decayers are on the increase year on year and this is in old growth areas, in town its tenfold
  20. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    I dont think it was THAT fierce a reduction but the growth is around ten, certainly no more
  21. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    awesome dude, bet you paid the 160 on the spot!
  22. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    is it really that bad Gerrit? in your 40 odd years studying the habitats and ecologies have you seen the progression of this demise?
  23. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    Just think how awful the winter architecure will be, lmfao
  24. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    went back to check up on a sycamore i reduced a few months ago. Its leafing up now shall get one more later in full leaf and also one each year as the growth progresses.
  25. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    shut it Bobbin

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