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  1. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    Knepp house, it was awesome:thumbup1: got a shedload more in a moment! been away on a jolly for 6 days! ireland wales ATF meetings, too much, overload on the stimulus!
  2. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    im with pat:thumbup1:
  3. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    I give in, you win, lets fell it without further analysis:001_huh:
  4. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    Get on some courses run by helen read and flora/Ancient tree forum,open your eyes to decay and the living tree.
  5. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    Dont take "too" much notice of beech not handling reductions, its not what youdo but how you do it that counts:biggrin:
  6. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    And me thinks your 99% certain to be right:biggrin:
  7. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    I suspect you disagree because you are reading into it too much, nothing i said would cause a problem with any of the above, information is ALL we can provide here, enabling the OP to make an informed choice based on the varied positions/information. Although it does not work this way for 99% the attitude should always be that felling is the last resort, not the first. Only after all the facts are in (and they are not) should one give in to the easy options.
  8. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    I spent the day in fine company, all the ATF crew regulars, plus Lynne Boddy who delivered an awesome presentation as always. bagged a new species too thanks to Ted, hes a legend. Phellinus tremulae AKA The Aspen Bracket, very similar to P. igniarius, also Phellinus robustus last image, a very easily overlooked fungi:001_cool:
  9. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    Opinions will always vary, dont fret about having one that does not match somone elses, nor upsetting senior members who wont get upset. as a qualified assessor you should know that well enough, opinions often vary widely. But it is VERY easy to drop the fell option, the real skills are in knowing when that is overkill
  10. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    bacterial wetwood from quercus cerris IMO
  11. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    A picus would be o.k as long as plenty of sensors are used, Ive noticed with two few sensors it triangulates too much. (edges undefined) Its more important to know the state of the remaining roots, the functional ones, vascular pathways with cavities between are not in of themselves enough cause for felling. In my opinion. the tree needs carefull evaluation, and dont take offence but seems to me your in need of some help in this area so get a consultant involved:thumbup1: It might be that both fungi species discussed are present, on a closer look.
  12. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    difficult to be 100% on these, I would vere toward T. versicolour, as bjerkandera (jesse) isnt called the smokey bracket for nowt, the underside of B. adusta is a smokey grey, and the pores would be unrecognisable at that range. Trametes on the other hand have larger pores and even at fairly distant objectives are definable.
  13. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    bat potential there, so youll need to confirm or deny that before ANY work is done
  14. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    Marble Galls, pretty:001_cool:
  15. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    anamorphic, not sexual not a matter of late nor early, the two forms often appear together:thumbup:
  16. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    got two massive pinus nigra and seqoiua butts in bovingdon for collection?
  17. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    going on Davids new images that tree was in "obvious" trouble with the wall etc constricting root development and optomisation
  18. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    Water in dry weather and add a mulch to rob free nitrogen from the soil, get a small section of the cambium and spring wood vessels off to a pathologist.
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  20. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    Oh dear, another man goes to war on nature....
  21. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    note the poly in the old wound!
  22. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    and i may be seeing frass (insect boring residue) rather than a spore print but if its frass then this is a brown rot fungi as the fras is brown rotted, otherwise the sporeprint is brown like cocao, not white as in benzoinum.
  23. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    Ischnoderma benzoinum and ischnoderma resinosum are different fungi, with resinosum found on deciduos species I believe. In my Jordans encyclopedia - it suggests benzoinum is the benzoin bracket and favouring conifers spruce it notes but I find it likes scotts very much so. but resinosum is down as the broadleaf hosting favouring beech. and having looked at my images of forming benzoinum im even less inclined that yours be the benzoin. Gerrit Jan Keizer only shows the I. benzoinum in his encycolpedia Roger Phillips- notes that some authorities now suggest that the host defines the species with benzoinum being the conifer hosted one of the two. Neither Keizer or phillips pictorially represent I resinosum.
  24. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    Respect old timer, thats so cool!
  25. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    the Ischnodermas do tend to guttate (ooze droplets) ischnoderma benzoinum oozes a red liquid.

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