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  1. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    we have to take account of a trees genetics/biology too, all trees have a rough age limit and an ultimate size.
  2. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    oh but THEY WILL!
  3. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    tachyon is too soft for it i found today, and its going to take some getting used to, cant use it left handed, disadvantage.
  4. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    what did you get andy?
  5. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    No not shear, just normal maturation proscess, as the ripe wood region increases in size it gets closer to the surface and the active root channels start to define as they grow faster than the channels between (like butressing) and as with big old beeches often becom a series of channels and a discontinuos banded or columnar group as oposed to a smooth Atypical trunk, the roots fused at the base of this crack are relatively new in tree terms:thumbup: EEEEEJIT!
  6. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    actually there wasn't, not much growth internally the last guy skinned it out years ago, was going corkey in old age and getting out far enough on many of those branches was pushing my luck. shall return when it leafs up for another shot as its so local to our yard.
  7. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    to the pith in a narrowing wedge shape, wider at the cabium/bark to a fine point at the pith and no greater.
  8. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    there where so many HC gano failures in thos jan winds, proof of the detrimental association
  9. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    she will reduce nicely, was done before and has around 15-20ft of regrowth beyond the old points, so aslong as its done beyond the old point and ont the length of the regrowth she will be dandy! nice tree, obviously coping with a colonisation of either P ostreatus or P squamosa, maybe probably both.
  10. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    the decay wil be confined to a wedge shape as in the CODIT model, with all the vascular bundle decayed eventualy
  11. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    where there are fruit bodies, there will be decay directly behind.
  12. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    this tree was left untouched, and enabled me to witness something quite unique, a species of crane fly removing and appearing to eat maggots from the fruiting bodies as they decayed. these craneflies are not known to eat, so it was unobserved behaviour! cool!
  13. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    wicked posts guys. Im redundant!
  14. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    im working on it, admin wont give me any privilege in edits so slow internet connection means the images didnt download on time again after the first fail, try again.
  15. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    So apparently some consultants and i mean quite a few, feel that what i have done here is mutilate, wound and cause a downward spiral of decline and that the ideal here would have been to fell the tree and replant it. so what do YOU think? The nieghbour came out and gave me her opinion, "oh she said when i heard the chainsaws this morning I felt dred, but youve done a beautiful pruning job and its actually IMPROVED it not only its shape but it always projected over our gardens more this side and now its got a nice balane to it." she also said that theres an awful lot of cowboys about, always nice to be appreciated and feel that one is providing a quality service to the community.
  16. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    added a pantin last year:thumbup1:
  17. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    Im not the only one whos suffering the old elbows then! im following th esame line of thought fella, just picked up my spiderjack meself, shall be playing tommorow!
  18. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    i didnt say anything that isnt true, time i did not give! and one thing is certain, its a rare birch that goes on to live the live that a staverton birch does! and even they had mellea bleeds, in case you did not notice! and Guy, bootlaces and bleeds and the mention of mellea is only frequent because it is the most frequent factor, being a weakness parasite any issues quickly lead to Armillarias, which are ubiquitous in the soils, moving in.
  19. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    now it IS changing, and WE ARE adapting, were learning the language and redefining it for ourselves. No longer will over bearing opinionated hardline folk like you have any authority over us arbs, and good job too by the sound of it. you are cleary on a unique trip, so if anyone is in need of adaption it is YOU, or you can and will be the one who fails to survive. and fullfill your OWN prophecy:lol: this threads got a large following, and your one of only two who have talked such a big pile of doodoo! mmmm, your name wasnt educated arborist by chance was it:001_rolleyes: something familiar in your extremist viewpoint. oh did you think I wouldnt see it!
  20. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    on the contrary my dear chums, its all good banter and we wouldnt want to start taking life too seriously now would we!
  21. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    Its a stump Rob, but I have images of it on large wounds 20ft up in live trees also.
  22. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    just the obvious one that will be, an old birch on a lean in a wood with a white rot fungi at the core, cant last forever but not suggesting the lucidum will be the ultimate cause but that a secondary "weakness" parasite will be.
  23. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    T gibbosa
  24. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    I will suggest armillaria as a secondary coloniser being the downfall, lucidum IME is similar to applanatum:thumbup1:
  25. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    its alright for you section dismantler, try reducing all day everyday!

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