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  1. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    thats a very panicky set of brackets, dont think that trees long for this world, a year or two tops
  2. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    this sounds awesome,look forward to the vid, we love our mini arbtruck, makes the job a walk in the park and with the hooks on the bars a ton bag sits in it and holds itself open for all the sawdust and rakings. absolute time saving wonder of the modern worl!
  3. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    Ive got no advice having failed twice!
  4. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    that beech has a catastrophic faultline! complete separation. and looking very thin and weak gently bentley is the order of the day on this old girl, she is fragile.
  5. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    I said trees are colonised while fully functional (see endophytes) so no it is NOT compartmentalising colonisation but youre right it would have been an odd acronym! C.O.C.I.T:lol:
  6. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    about 2-3 hrs climbing
  7. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    the truth is usually found in the middle way Buddha
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  9. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    agreed on all counts, i get all my cabling from Nod:thumbup1:
  10. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    Yes winter is a very busy time on bigger trees and if your getting into the bigger trees youll have the obvious benifits of associated sidelines like firewood for sale:thumbup1:
  11. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    Depending on how legitimately you wish to operate it may prove unproductive to invest in the plant, tickets and insurances required to confine your tree operations to the winter months. How involved in arboriculture do you intend to be? if lopping and topping conifer hedges hacking a few fruit trees and small birches is the idea then you may probably be alright and get away with it as an occasional thing but if you intend to do it seriously expect to part with some wedge to get up and running. Arboriculture is a specialised business, youll never be taken seriously in the industry while your operating part time and offering fencing tarmac and landscape options!
  12. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    Indeed, and long overdue that it was inserted to the minds of arbs everywhere. I believe it causes a confusion, not least that trees actively wall and defend against fungal colonisation, they do not. Fungi colonise and establish in trees even while the conditions do not favour them, and lie dormant in tissues, in the symplast, until such time as conditions in the woody tissues change via cavitations (drought induced) or other means of aeration of the tissues like die back of suppressed branches and twigs or limb failures. The heart rot fungi such as Laetiporus, Inonotus etc illustrate to us just how well the wood has been colonised during less hospitable times by showing rapid colonisation and fruiting when tissues become aerated via failures.
  13. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    difficult trees to work the platanoides, thats good work
  14. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    no Guy, dysfunction is the right term, trees dont limit fungi, hydration does.
  15. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    in y experience it appears to be more hazardous in Acer, this may be down to acer being fairly poor at compartmentalisation of dysfunctions Note- Compartmentalisation of Dysfunction as it should be, not Decay
  16. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    Thats a pretty heavy infestation, these trees will be rough barked in the future.
  17. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    Great advice that is, an do heed the freelance climber advice, if your running things, run things, let others do the bits you cant, and if your starting a new business with little experience believe me you need to uphold really good standards to last in this game in this economy.
  18. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    Is that beech scale all over it?
  19. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    Polyporus squamosus, at this stage unlikelyto be a major risk but one also wouldnt want to be doing a climbing inspection every six months to be sure. From a VTA point of view the tree has lots of increment strips and that indicates rapid growth, and therefore plenty of capacity to limit and compensate for the loss of wood at the old pruning wound. be ten years IMO before I would be sweating over it.
  20. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    I notice the number of species associated with oak and fagus has gone up over the last year and now Fagus leads not by 2 but 9 now Associated Organism Number of Species Fagus 2261 Quercus 2252
  21. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    or it was the planting of Quercus roburs, provide the habitat and they will land:thumbup1:
  22. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    New record for australia Boletus edulis! https://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=29&ved=0CHAQFjAIOBQ&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.environment.sa.gov.au%2Ffiles%2F3d167627-47b9-43ab-a1d4-a0bd00a98125%2Fkb-gen-jabg-25-catcheside.pdf&ei=y4nMUeSZKq-M0wX54oHgCA&usg=AFQjCNG303dPrNNFdBBSf3i_CM3ULs3U0A&sig2=k0RtnFHk1r455p7-Y74gKw
  23. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    ha ha ha you must have been sponsored!
  24. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    apparently so:lol:
  25. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    good addition to the thread David:thumbup1:

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