Tony Croft aka hamadryad

cracking stuff Simon, good to see your at it, should have something to show for the pippy oak soon.

I tryto ignore and forget, and outright avoid negativity from anyone these days, makes life so sweet!

Theres probably work here in Bulgaria if you would be interested, can supply digs too. Nothing is cast iron yet but its well under way. If i know theres willing I can put in some groundwork, could use some help out here with tickets!

personaly would swing toward adspersum/australe. But its just a game without the spore

nice thread

I would suggest a little armillaria going by the lesions too

Im O.K with Buffs passing, I miss him but it is inevitable we will lose these friends it is the time you have, you have to make it count. That is kinda why I am here now, making it count, every minute of every hour is an opportunity to be emotionally overwhelmed by the experiences we can share.

Looks vital from these images.

 

The failures I've noted with P. squarrosa on ash have all been trees showing notable decline in the canopy.

 

Perhaps consider reducing the wind load potential.

 

 

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couldnt agree more, classic old ash 10's of thousands like this with scaley, rarely falling but have to say most older ones retrenching via hispidus in canopy, so yeah reduce all day long.

corking tree worthy of care:thumbup1:

Plans are being made Tony.

best kep me posted, i wanna know all about it! Good luck with your plans, dont give in, find a way:thumbup1:

What are they Heinz or some sort of terrier?

 

Nice one though Tony. I would love more space and not be in a city, as I would love to get a dog.

no idea of the breed, get yourself some space dude, dogs make life a party and keep you young!

We have always worked with rescue dogs, and apart from the odd mother & pup(s) they always been singletons.

Until SM went all the way to Castleblaney and brought back 2 pups, one being the "runt" of the litter with a very pronounced pig jaw.

Watching the 2 siblings grow up together, absolutly knocking lumps out of other while playing boisterly, then falling asleep in a lump, I would almost say it was un-natural to raise a pup on its own.

So well-done Tony.

Marcus

The bitch of this pair is the litters runt, we chose her hten the next one to keep her company as she was so coi, they make a great pair, no regrets at all was spot on the right thing settling in fast due to their kinships:thumbup1:

Nice, good story, good luck to them and you.

Get in!

Chuffed for you and them Tone.

Great news, Hama.

thanks guys, shall share a tail or two over the coming journies!

Well in the Eifel mountains, not too far from the Belgian border, you get this for £120k:

 

 

TOP-Gepflegte Immobilie im Landhausstil mit Nebengebäude + schöner Garten inkl. Teich + Kamin + Garage u.v.m. Einfamilienhaus Daun (27BPJ4Y)

 

That gets you 4 bedrooms, a couple of living rooms, 2 bathrooms, several cellar rooms, a couple of balconies, a large plot, a small lake/very large pond and a sauna!

 

Came back from lovely winter weather in Bavaria to howling wind and rain. Part of the roof in my office had collapsed when a leak filled the void between the roof and the plasterboard. Part of the tin sheeting on one of my barns had peeled back.

 

It never stops raining or blowing a gale here. A continental climate certainly appeals!

ha ha yeah, agreed I cant believe the weather here in Bularia, reckon logs will dry in just a month given the heat here summer!

here they are!

love em:biggrin:

It seems to be the size of the pic. I resized everything that I wanted to upload and they all worked. Never had problems before though...

good to know shall try that:thumbup1:

whats left of a slime mold probably consuming sloughed bark cells

The dog that will love you the most SWB is the one that needs you the most to start with, i dont care about breed, but love terriers all the same, they all have BIG personalities, funny really the smaller the terrier the more it over compensates with character!

 

My ex got a Rotty pup while we was together, molly, she had the sweetest nature.

 

Im thinking maybe two dogs next time, tony's little wolf pack!

I thought I would add a little update, especially as this post quoted here has come true! Meet Buddy & Holly, brother and sister, two pups much in need of a place to call home. The time was right, and they presented themselves to us. Snug as bugs on the couch right now, sleeping after a strange day for them most likely:001_cool: May the adventures begin, and long will they continue, the third time ive opened myself up to dogs now, old men have so many four legged friends in their history and I will remember them all as the best of my friends, cant wait, the woods beckon me once more with compadres !

still unable to process images to this site?

I think much more able persons may be able to answer that. I would need more information to give you a good guess. More pictures for a start. Once inoculated, whether a tree can stop, compartmentalize, the fungus or not depends on many factors; vitality, species, extent of damaged cells, how much exposed surface there is....

species is elm it's a very healthy tree apart from this small area around an old pruning wound just above an inclusion.

the fruit body shown in the photo in the op is at the top of the inclusion shown in the photo below. everything below it looks perfectly healthy.

cheers

simply put it is easier to compartmentalise the wood below than above, when the vessel is broken it is fed from the bottom up, the supply chin is broken from there upward

gotta say agree with Mr humphries on this one, ive never really seen it as parasitic, opportunistic yes, and I dont think its that good a competitor either

I had a huge 56" DBH coastal live oak that had a G. Lucidum infection both inside and outside its hollow base. It was a double trunked tree, splitting apart, but in a remote location with no targets about. The tree was on the grounds of a local Indian casino with enough money to spend on a little R&D, so I talked them into letting me try an unusual fungal mitigation project on it.

 

I tied the splitting tree together with bull ropes temporarily, then using tarps, created a radial tent around the tree's lower base, reaching about six feet up and 360 degrees around it. Then ran outdoor drop cords from a nearby maintenance shed to the tent. Placing grow lights both inside the hollow trunk and outside in a radial configuration. My intent was to starve the fungal infection of darkness, blasting it with artificial light throughout each evening using timers until daylight.

 

Sure enough, after about three weeks of this rather bizarre light treatment, all the fruiting bodies dried up and dropped off the tree, both inside and out. Unfortunately the splitting tree broke my temporary bull lines and hit the ground, bringing my bizarre R&D fungal mitigation project to an early end.

 

A year or so later, I spoke with a mycologist at a seminar about the project. His opinion was that while it may have been effective above ground and inside the hollow tree where the light reached the fruiting bodies? It would have had no effect below ground where the vast shoestring network of the fungi was located.

 

He did however think using the same light treatment to burn out fusarium infections in the heads of Phoenix canariensis date palms might work.

 

Jomoco

as ive said before on hearing of this experiment, 3 weeks and the bodies NATURALLY decay, They have rhizomorphs for protection and snorkeling. light will do sweet fudge!

a few bits from recent some unfinished and roughed out others gifts for friends and nieghbours:001_smile:

And always pay attention! Large sorby scraper to the face at 800RPM aint no joke!

Photo files appear to not download (Steven, whats a security token?)

a lovely bit of figured field maple here and then a nest of two in robinia.

 

if ailanthus isn't underrated then robinia certainly is in my opinion. a beautiful timber that finishes so easily and has so many uses but really only gets put on the fire...

 

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Cant agree more, did a lovely dry bit of Robinia the other day and its as good as oak in my opinion, and every bit as resilient, some of the old beams in my house are Robinia and no worm and tough as iron:thumbup1:

Wow, looks amazing!

 

Promise you'll keep us all updated.

I think your on the money

 

 

 

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i would agree with Mr Humphries here

Cherry bowl ..............this was made from a section of wood that straddles the graft union on a cherry tree , it shows the clear difference between the root stock and the scion which was grafted to it some time ago , the stump was quite thick at about 1 foot above ground level with the remaining stem considerably slimmer , I had to hollow the bowl down in to end grain which is not easy , very hard and difficult to get a good finish from the chisel so more sanding than usual , it is just another example of what beauty can be found within a seemingly poor piece of wood of little / no value !!! ( the bowl is approx 8" dia and 6-7" tall )

thats a nice piece, in Bulgaria they have a variety of ash as street trees tha are grafted, the graft becomes very pronounced and im hoping one day a large live edged vase. this one will be right up your street!