Tony Croft aka hamadryad

I could really dig these images in straight format without the mirroring bit, the sky looks so cool, very goth.

A groundie in tune with his climber, Priceless.

sounds like a good deal.

MMmmm inoscollation and anastomosis, two big words learnt this week! I might even be inteligent soon! Too long yours David what about anastomosmorphic? lol

OI! Climbing saw, top up, TA! nuff said!

it took me a little while to see the first one, thats cool! i was too busy looking at the two birds making up here nose! second one is alright i guess, if a bit odd!

wasnt my figures I was quoting there! I am was a bit tippsy and think that was a rant about bosses having it so hard lol I am prone to the odd rant and insane dribble moment! especialy as I cant handle a glass let alone best part of a bottle

oh man, thats the one i need Hericium erinaceus! how long in fridge?

The growth stresses in these welds always amazes me, especialy in sycamore, which even as a strasight stem often bang and crack as you cut through thier radius releasing the growth stresses.

cool post:thumbup1: monkey! I especialy like the chestnut, showing what appears IMO to be a lack of stem diameter increase on the left limb due to the weld/brace support. The axiom of uniform stress, perfect example!

For the sake of a few quid in infected dowels and a bit of drilling and tapping in the dowels they could get a very tasty productive crop for years, some of these fungi are expensive too, would easily pay for itself. the stump would be broken down rapidly if well colonised and after a few years it will be so soft the client could put it on the compost heap! just isnt a single thing to fault this notion!

I wondered about that EXACT same thing earlier after reading these posts! It isnt a clear cut thing is it! They say grown in the dark to "force them" up which you do with vegatables like ruhbarb, but I dont see fungi needing light, only heat water and substrate so who knows? I will ask Alan when i get the chance!

Good spot on the piptoporus david, I saw a double headed bracket like this a season or two ago, got the photo somewhere. Maybe this parasite causes the double up of the fruit body? like a nematode causing root blastamania? just a thought to put out there!

tell the client Im pleased as punch they are letting it go natural, if only more people thought like that, i am thinking of offering a "stump infection" service to people, grow your own mushrooms hardcore style! and save money by leaving the butt up, and do something for ecology all in one swoop! win win win scenario. bet them oysters where great. The Pluerotus ostreatus is a sneaky little toad, it is a predator you know and doesnt just like its meal made of cellulose and lignin. Due to the lack of nitrogen in woody tissues pluerotus traps nematodes in its myclelium. The nematodes dont die immidietly, but are slowly digested supplementing the nitrogen needs of the fungus. The toxin produced was named ostratin after the fungus, fortunatley there is no ostratin present in the fruit bodies!

How many shops sell saws only to those with certs? If pro dealers cant sell saws over the internet why can e bay? Shouldnt "arboricultural work" be carried out ONLY by certified operators? would make it a more even playing field.

botle of finest gallo!

sycamore too! nah changed me mind after some scrutiny! OAK

I want to set a few records straight here, theres been a lot of talk, from a climbers viewpoint, and from a bosses viewpoint and all shades in between. For the bosses- Do not try to kid us employees, we are not stupid, when you moan about paying 40% tax it means your earning over the threshold, when you live in a barn conversion in the country drive an audi estate as well as having a company L200 etc etc etc your earnings and life at your own control. It isnt THAT easy for all you guys I know, but i owned my own firm, had three guys to find wages for and work for and a company to suppport and grow, IT WAS THE TIME OF MY LIFE. My customers staff appreciated me and made me feel i was doing a good job, I was my own boss, and controller of my destiny, and no one could condescend to me and treat me like a numb nuts cos they OWNED ME. Now climbers- any climber on 120 a day, your at the top of your game, that means you cant bitch that a jobs too tough, or the days too wet, you get top dollar for being a top dog and its the sort of money you get for backing up your firm by being good, fast efficient and most of all, pulling not only your own wieght but the wieght of the lads below you who earn less cos they dont give a sh... It also means your going to have to eat sh.... whenever and wherever its dished to you, cos your boss is going to tell you and rightly so if you dont like it f off! You bosses think you would take 30k a year tommorow for a climbers position? BS you have NO idea what it is like to be told that you dont know your job as well as the boss, that all those mind numbingly dull tedious boring and mundane jobs are YOURS cos your on good money, you will have to go and work in the rain and the snow and all the other sh.... while the boss has a "catch up in the office day" If you want to attend seminars at 250 a day youll not get the vat back, youll not make a "bonus" when the nieghbour taps you on the shoulder and if you work hard and efficiently make your company a good score for the day you wont go home early, youll be punished by jet washing vehicles and sweeping the yard! its swings and roundabouts boys, its always greener, but I wouldnt have any other life, I love trees and my work, be that owning my own firm with all the "poor me " stresses or working for some patronising unapreciative boss who doesnt care to notice I hold his firm up too!

Isnt it only a few folk that react to these? been a while since i saw them, used to get a lot in brent but I just avoided handling them and got on with it?

thats a good bit of digital manipulation! Totaly BS though for certain!

Awsome, we should start up a new training scheme for "real arbs"!

Thanks SWB, that was some good info, and well worth looking into, that must be a huge potential market to bolster the confidance. mmmmm tinking, the cogs are a whirring! it hurts too! lol:laugh1:

A woman (nieghbour to a job) Kieth was on was a bit upset about a little conny clippings going over her side, I didnt hear the whole thing just when she said "I've never been so insulted in all my life" To which this guy replied " well you wanna get out more often luv!" seriously, true! Unbelievably hes been in business for 30-40 years! I helped him on a job once, the client says to me that Kieth only got the job because she simply had to meet the guy who would have the gaul to call a woman stupid on the phone! He called her stupid as she couldnt assist in him quoting over the phone when he asked is the tree dinner plate sized or saucer sized! UNREAL!

youve just described my mate Kieths service to a tea, PLAGIARISM!

I wish I had to fight for the climb like that! were a team of four, all supposedly climbers but yours truly does 99.99%! But I would rather be up than down, and three groundies mean I get no clearing up to do!