Tony Croft aka hamadryad

Be carefull about the old guys? i never acused anyone of being old! and am only trying to spell out what benifits I can see, if not doing a good job of that! When you say the dough is in the training, do you mean there isnt much market to make money from "other" than in being the one to be selling the training/product/liceance?

Fungi and thier relationships with trees, particulary the vets fascinates me. I just dont look at decay in the same way anymore, my friends think I am nuts and would fell some things on sight, me i see the long term picture and cant wait till Im in a position to understand this proscess more fully.

That looks sweeeeett! as it is fella, looks well and truly professional.

When i first got into Fungi I had no idea just how important they where, I knew they where important, but just how profoundly so I had yet to discover. If you doubt the power of fungi, or are interested in ways we can alter our impact upon the earths eco system and enhance its health, remediate our catastrophic impact, then these links will open you mind and your hearts to the power of fungi. Fungi rule the planet, they are the supreme life form, fair to say that we only exist due to them, trees too. I never thought i would find a subject that would consume me so, but if you watch the stamets seminar video in the second link youll understand my obbsession with the fifth kingdom. I think davids going to like this one! enjoy:thumbup1: Fungi Perfecti: Mushrooms and the ecosystem Fungi Perfecti: mycotechnology

There is a fortune to be had in this! I believe there was a young lad, a student, on dragons den who believed he had found a viable technique. I dont know if he has gotten off the ground with it but it does take many years before (7 approx) it starts to produce a viable crop. But at up to 20k a piece, it is a rich mans game, succeed and youll never look back, and youll never be short of a few bob!

good guys are hard to find, but theres plenty in here? trouble is good little indians wanna be chiefs!

Bundle, many thanks for this post, it was the MOST usefull post on this subject so far, and I am now well on my way to getting the full picture on these TI cameras. Pricewise I doubt it would be wise to by a 6 grand camera, you get what you pay for in this world and I am a camera freak anyway so I am loving the T400! When I see some prices for these and have a better idea of practicality i am going to seriously consider becoming a trained owner of TI technology, my mind is pretty well made up on this subject. Your work load is not limited to tree surveys with this technology and a shrewd investor could easily find enough market to keep himself a busy boy doing lots of TI surveying and reporting. The lack of willingness to jump on this bandwagon is a bonus in my mind, the more of you that think its just too pricey to do the less competative is the market for those with the technology. There is nothing more rewarding than a "captive audience" market wise! Andrew your onto a winner, but you need to sell this and I get that, why havent you, MBT etc realised that a lot of us would be faster to realise its potential within a broader market, as pointed out by SWB and the links through Bundles article above? Surely armed with this info we can all see the investment returns, if we have the cameras we can offer the service not only to our arb clients but to a broader more diverse market giving us high returns for the investment.

any ideas which fungi are causing the decay? Ustulina duesta in the beech, maybe?

Thats a good point! I would think most trees wouldnt re shoot if cut to a six foot stump and drilled to within a inch of its life and colonised by fungi dowels. After all fungi are specialists at taking advantage of such situations, and probably able to overrun the trees defence in such an extreme situation? I would fell and grind say a Lime but ash oak beech sycamore i think might have a hard time surviving the treatment

No, thats the answer to the ultimate question you cult science fiction freak!

I dont think there is often a straight forawrd job or day in arboriculture! I rarely have trouble mediating between nieghbours, its a skill like any other. I know you cant always get hold of the nieghbours, but it is a rare event. i doubt "words" would hold up in a courtroom, one mans word against the others. Well done tony for being the outstanding profesional I have come to expect from you, I have much to learn from your good self! As for the ordasity of expecting any of us to pay for information, shame on you, but then this guy seems to spend a lot of time trying to sell his services, is there a reason your trying so hard to sell yourself? no disrespect for what you are or do, but that lack of willingness to share your knowledge for anything less than payment was just plain whiffy.

thats what I was thinking!

Theres only one rule if somones trying to rob you, that rule being there is no rules!

Just how sick are we getting of this sh... happening to us all, and all too frequently? Is it time to have a serious chat with the powers that be and have an operation lignin, like that operation bumble bee! i am sorry mate, my heart bleeds for you, I know all too well how it feels, I avoid these threads for a while then i just have to say something for sympathy if nowt else. as long as we have a hole in our backsides and a chiper in close to behind we will be followed harrased and targeted, and when they want it, they will get it. i dont miss the sleepless nights worrying about the kit and truck and chipper, with all my saws under the bed at night and a baseball bat at the ready!

note to self "do not drink and Arbtalk" unless of course it entertains the other members, and it seems to!

i was just kidding anyways! lol

if its monkies head you want beech lengths for best results, get the job done pronto, and keep us posted! awsome stuff:thumbup:

are these poplar sections? or ash possibly?

i especialy like image two showing the "artifacts" ie origional compartmentalisation being broken via a boring insect leaving the host and allowing the decay fungus to breach into a new section. That new section will probaly become the diametre of the decay colum at a later date. great images.

would that be a chimera type thing, like a peabit?

Ive only just noticed this, what can one say that hasnt already been said? If I had a talent like this I wouldnt want to stop! i would be like edward scissor hands, no tree would be safe! Simply awsome dude, absolutley awsome. when can you teach me!

Thats out of order, saying I was half right then giving me the missleading "ancient oak woodland" tip off! you would not get coccinea in NAW designated woodland! shucks, play fair! lmao

Oh you lot are getting me well up for a bit of mushrooming! Im going to see if I can get hold of some big as I can handle beech lengths in the autumn and do some different colonies in each round. hericium erinaceus the monkies head Ganoderma lucidum the rieshi Polyporus tuberaster the Tuckahoe and if im really keen I will make a oak chip bed for some grifola frondosa! the mitaike come on!

well by deduction, ancient oak woodland rules out the large leaved hungarian oak, so sessile or Quercus petrea it must be.

But youll have covered your arse end for sure. I think the bat detection is more a check for flights at night kind of thing? rather than detection in residence, is that right Andrew?