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  1. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    hahaha I dont know,reckon you'll make a fine contributor, and now we know your there you've got no excuses! Share your wisdom you shy little creature!
  2. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    There are many fungal nematode predators, but yes the most well known is the Oyster, its where the toxin gets its name Ostratin, paralyzes for digestion besides the lasso traps. pretty cool huh. Its all about supplementing nitrogen, all living things need a carbon to nitrogen ratio and wood is low in N, its why aphids excrete sugary sap, they can only absorb so much as they must have the N/c balance too. Life is a complex joy to study aint it.
  3. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    find this on a tree and youll get some seriously cool spalting too:thumbup1:
  4. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    I get you... I don't personally get the shear idea though, not from a near horizontal arrangement, pure buckle IMO. As you know Shear strength is the weakest link in the biomechanical properties, then Compressive and the strongest being tension. So shear is the obvious call:001_smile: but shear is 45 degree or vertical, not horizontal
  5. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    If it doesn't free you up somewhat your doing something wrong. its all down to you now, and if you cant reduce the hours you have been doing by a long chalk work out why and change that. Getting the work/life balance right is key to a long, happy, productive, healthy life and career:thumbup:
  6. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    didnt see it, I always reply?
  7. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    weakness is not a term to be used in this case, or most buckles that have been bulged. Particularly in birch this is a very normal late developmental adaption. We dont see birches into their grand old age which can be much much longer than your average joe expects. Exercise some caution when applying terminologies that may elevate risks beyond the reality, we do it too much as an industry. If youve never took the time to study ancient birch you would never know, an ancient birch is an incredible site and its form beyond imagination:001_cool: An ancient birch has many many such buckles and twists, till so many have formed a latticework of 45 degree bulges appear, and it has its advantages, as do all the odd things trees do over the course of a long long life:001_cool:
  8. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    and why not, your spot on! have some conviction man!
  9. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    flippin eck, whats brought you in to the madhouse! Have you come in to bring some sense to this place!
  10. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    its also distinctly possible that its too dry
  11. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    congrats fella, may it be both prosperous and time freeing for you. its a great feeling aint it
  12. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    thats the best looking surf board on the planet, slick and sick, you would get a pretty penny for that in some circles I would bet. thats what I call imagination, top bloody draw
  13. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    but your mind is working down the right roads, youve got the measure of the reasons.
  14. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    holy crap im 42 now!
  15. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    if he worked in the woods till 70 pass him a pat on the back from me, hope im still cutting at three score and ten
  16. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    dont let it frustrate you, I remember Claus (Mattheck) discussing this recently saying something about birch being crazy bastards because of some part of their make up that makes buckle and adaption to it part of their natural order
  17. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    thanks dude, will have a clear out of the old inbox!
  18. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    :laugh1:what no mention i missed the Pleurotus as well! Just a hunch really, and the more likely scenario, its quite common to see stip cankers like this on semi to mature beech. and strip canker translated can e seen as just a dead/dysfunctional vascular chanel, though it is usualy meant as a strip canker caused by drought and a group of sac fungi one of which I believe is called Hypoxlon nummularia, but that is probably miss spelt
  19. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    fibre buckles, very very normal in mature phase birches
  20. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    they HATE anything more than light secteur or bypass pruner type work
  21. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    strip canker, Gano australe and meripilus, full whammy!
  22. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    Over my head fella, just old ripewood being decayed, perfectly normal process
  23. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    put a comma after arsonists
  24. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    good to see you getting a nice example of this one david, its a corking fungi aint it, one of the best of the best shrooms on this mad planet IMO:thumbup1:
  25. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    Thanks to our Mr Humphries I went looking for a book on Amanitas, it was bound to be a dangerous exercise! I havent visited a book store for some time, the delivery took a while but today they all turned up and its got my juices going BIGTIME! I was losing my Mojo for a bit there, thanks David, for keeping going while I was slacking off:thumbup1: And David, you HAVE to by the big Poroid fungi of europe (synopsis fungorum 31, within its pages is more fungal porn and delight than ive had in a LONG time, really really worth the £95.00 tag:001_cool: Best book ive bought in years. Got me a proper dissecting kit too, a snip at 17 squid

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