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  1. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    no your wrong because you think like the clan that believe trees dont need work doing to them.
  2. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    Hetero?
  3. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    2 good guesses have been made, so im out?
  4. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    No, your wrong, very very wrong. I am objective about my recommendations regarding structural faults, if you was too you would be speccing work. I bet you was a nightmare TO too:lol:
  5. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    funny cos I rate it an 8, and I did it!
  6. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    So you dont do much tree condition survey work, just that old planning stuff eh:lol:
  7. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    and again we see the T/r proven!
  8. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    Thats such a rubbish question isnt it Lee? I mean your an arb, surely you get why we have jobs, why this job exists? Every tree we as arbs get involved in has either A structural fault Is causing a nuisance Or is simply too big for the clients tastes The Euc I did yesterday was getting very long lever arm issues, with the largest limbs starting to buckle and crack. We was there to address light issues to a swimming pool, the reduction achieved several things. brought in more light reduced the potential failures of some major parts of the crown Improved form ensured its longevity against human pressures.
  9. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    New scoring system! from a 10 mark= 1= Should not be allowed up a tree ever again! 2= Should be O.k the tree wont die! 3= Do as you likey 4= O.K its an ATTEMPT at a reduction/pollard BUT.... 5= Not bad, obviously your on your way to being a good reducer with some guidence. 6= Nice but there probably a few poor cuts or rips, is that a spike mark....Etc 7= very nice, little more practice and I would let you work on my trees. 8= O.k bar a few tufty bits and maybe overly thinned. 9= Almost perfect 10= Your boss needs to raise your wages, or you need to be looking for a managers job!
  10. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    origins on Vimeo
  11. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    depends on soil density and other factors, tree health at time of fill ect, these things dont happen overnight, its so hard to prove because of this.
  12. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    absolutely agree, but the cause of the very severe decay and lack of upper surface compensation or tensile triangle (optimisation) in the upper root horizons is due to suffocation (IMO) There is only one fungi I know to cause such a lack of flare and or compensation in the upper root surface and that is colybia. I suspect grifola also would need a reasonable oxygen level as opposed to mellea/ostoyae
  13. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    could I have a copy too! please!
  14. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    My job for today, big ol Eucy reduction, client wanted it to be as unaltered as possible so I really went to town and got out as far as was physically possible here. its all regrown from a previous reduction so was not easy I can tell ya! Appoximatley 4 metres all round some no more than 2 metres. I would estimate around 50% of the foliage mass is removed.
  15. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    but the lines in K deusta decays do not conform to the CODIT model and the CODIT model apart from barrier 4 "the Barrier zone " (Sharon) are true barriers (chemical) I think CODIT describes anatomical structure rather than boundaries and barriers, just obstacles like a maze, with the rays being hardest to navigate as a structure. I cant remember where I read about the CODIT reality, I think it may have been Schwarze
  16. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    The soil level marked on the trunk is too high to be natural, the soil was buit up at some stage hence all the major root death and fine reiterative root system trying to re establish.
  17. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    was the scar on the trunk with the loss of bark caused by the fall or something else?
  18. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    apart from the typos, why so funny?
  19. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    these organisations pay well, use the experience to raise your fees to them and ride the odd problem with extra profits from a small "agro surcharge"
  20. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    A degree in polotics, business managment and good peopl skills essential
  21. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    a friend of mine held out till last, got 117 thousand for the tennis court at the bottom of his garden!
  22. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    should have been closed from first post IMO, none of us are able to run a country or qualified to do the job. we may be british but were all still Europeans.
  23. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    Its a bit iffy at the moment, but areas that are receiving the rain were getting at the moment will probably be o.k!
  24. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    This image with plating poses a diffiult thing for me to ponder. Hi Gerrit, still feeling some doubt these lines are tree based barier formations as opposed to fungal barriers Principles here being Kretzschmaria (late to the table) and ganoderma applanatum first player, also armillaria starting to move in to remaining cambium spaces. So, if these black zone lines are the tree and not the interactions of the fungi, why do they demark the colonised zones and not present within the zones of individual colonisations via bot G. applanatum and K. deusta? Why are there no lines in each colonised section? etc
  25. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    Deans right, would be nearer the 500-650 minimum + VAT

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