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  1. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    Who remembers the old heavey 20ts? the ones witht he ally tanks that always wore and broke at the corners!
  2. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    personaly i would go for an o36 stihl, great little ground saw, huskies are for clan concious foresters!
  3. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    Thats good, as ive decided to do the lantra PTI and the forbes laird risk assesment, despite hating the acronym T.H.R.E.A.T.S for its mind pre conditioning on a negative stance.
  4. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    More like when men were men and boys didnt like tree work, cos it was too hard!
  5. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    Does nobody know how to "shin" a tree? hard graft but the old bear hugging grunt and shunt was great in the old skool days!
  6. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    In fisheries management we learnt its better to just try and slow down the current going into the cut to allow silt and then plants to get their own way in, a few stakes and a bit of dead hedging in the water should suffice. work with nature instead of against it, depends on the scenario though if the current is hitting on a bend its a hard thing to reduce and gabions may be the only resort. Of course rivers naturaly alter themselves, but we humans dont like allowing nature to run its course!
  7. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    Im thinking, why would you need a risk assesment to asses trees that arent known YET to be hazardous?
  8. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    just a few more from the archives of the Hama to share with you alls! Inonotus dryadeus An ongoing project, we reduced the tree which is situated in a high target area (edge of carpark and dorms to london school of theology) Lepista nuda The wood blewitt bjerkandera adjusta Smokey bracket Auricularia auriculare-judea the the jews ear Armillaria mellea mycelium, note the fan pattern, classic.
  9. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    But as an arb inspecting trees justification for caryying "tools" on those kind of estates!
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  11. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    Suggest you get a better Ident on your shrooms before ingesting them tony!
  12. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    First ones piptoporus betulinus, the razor strop fungus or birch polypore, makes a good wound dressing too if your desperate! last one is australe/adspersum, fact you found it on a fallen/failed beech is a dead give away too.
  13. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    i will work on it!
  14. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    LOL, well done fella, you done same as me, bang on first time nine minors! Congrats, freeeeeedommmmm
  15. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    Ninjas! lol tony has a sense of humour too!
  16. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    I just read that thread you linked, great thread! And your right, just when you think you have these little critters sorted, they do something you didnt expect! This forum is great, it is making it possible to observe more instances and querks of certain fungi than I can make alone, its like having fifty more sets of eyes out there looking as well as my own. If I ever get round to putting all these observations on paper I will certainly have to pay due credit to the collective experiances of the Arbtalkers!
  17. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    What a great thread. monkey your earlier remark regarding 100ft beeches infected to be allowed to stand and fail, on it! see the monster beech in my gallery, just started to show signs, and many of the beeches in whippendell fail due to three fungi, australe, ustulina and merripilus, couldnt ask for a better fungal observatory! My observations tie in nicely with the comments regarding it going arond 2 metres up the stem, this is the hieght they often seem to fail at where the envrittlement stops and the sound starts. I have a line of beeches that seem to have all fallen at the same time from a combo of ustulina and ganos, old relics laying on the deck now but even now their story is clear. Judging by the regrowth of understory and rate of decay I reackon they went down in the last hurricane about 97 wasnt it?
  18. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    First resource O.k with one shady Ident. second source, pics ok with right idents but misleading info
  19. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    great, more paperwork in the pipeline, those shelf stacking jobs at tescos get more atractive by the day! What is CDM?
  20. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    This lad is keen and commited, If i was local to you I would help you out but hopefully someone on here will, come on lads he needs a leg up.
  21. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    Thanks again Andy, your a big help! If I cant make it into consulting within two years 3 at best I am going to stack shelves at tescos!
  22. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    Oh I love a challenge! I am well in, dont know where or when but this is getting done!
  23. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    That was lucky! always pays to check on the phone if you think you smell a lemon! We used to have O/P and O/S for opposite and outside house number doing st trees, till I got it wrong, iread O/S but it was the big lime O/P! we have all done this at some point, mistakes you make when your too young to ask a simple question and or doubt the spec given! i should have sussed on the price alone!
  24. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    Seriously glad of the input too, I learnt something! and thats the point:001_smile: I still need a core sampler and fracto for my own research, things I need to know, ties in with my fungi interests. I also think i know a way to stop the break through of the barrier zone but need to do it a few times and leave em for a few years to test it. I was mostly interested in what views people had on picus, resito and others as I am no that big a fan, seeing as they all have thier limitations. With regards to the VTA bit this school is being asked to have their trees checked/surveyed whatever the format as part of their insurance package, as far as I am aware, the school is being told to do this.
  25. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    yep that counts a vet alright, not an ancient warrior, but a veteran for sure, good post, exactly the sort of stuff I had in mind.

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