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  1. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    i wouldnt like to be asscociated with "the tree experts"
  2. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    I think your confusing this with the Shigo "coalesence" where by on a trunk it would be far superior to remove one large limb than several small ones at various points around the trunk as the smaller cuts will tend to "coallese" and eventualy form a decay column that joins all the cuts together and makes the entire wood colum dysfunctional, rather than one big cut compartmentalising, and not progressing.
  3. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    Firstly we want to speed up natural cavity formation We also want to "choose" the fungi carefully. We also want to "override" latent propogules within the wood by mass colonisation of a competing stronger fungi. By inserting a lot of infected dowels to the wond we ensure dominace of our chosen agent.
  4. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    It IS Merripilus giganteus, and i will put my name to that! Lovely example of the decay zone, seems in a lot of cases it goes into that little cone into the butt. This one should have been picked up on many moons ago, that was fruiting for years and years. the failure wasnt that lucky, the road side would have been cut back keeping the majority of wieght the other side, also regular root pruning via utilities work would have ensured that there was more viable root on the opposite side, if it was going to fail it was always going that way. The roots got infected most likely through the rooad works historicaly. the wood would have been fine for furniture, merrip wouldnt have affected the higher structure, and looking at the fracture to the limb on the ground the wood was not embrittled by other decay fungi. Shame, this was a big tree.
  5. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    "As for Claus i seem to recall in a seminar i went to that he felt that its better to reduce a tree buy taking out several larger limbs/ branches leving fewer pruning wounds rather than pruning every branch back and creating lots and lots of small wounds that the tree will find harder to compartmentalise etc etc , has anyone oelts heard him talk about this ?" I doubt it as one of his theories describes the interlocking effect supporting branches like a latticework, that would contradict his other comments and writting, and i cant see him doing that! From my understanding of his teaching that would open up the canopy and increase the levering effect!
  6. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    If it hasnt a stalk but looks like lucidum its always going to be resinaceum, lucidum doesnt get as big as resinaceum iether, resinaceum is a huge bracket sometimes. lucidum tends to be no bigger than an open hand
  7. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    I would tell you my sales skills and methods but I would then have to kill you! nah seriously, I would put a few subtle articles into dog and gun magazines, optima, and the woodland trust english heritage publications. not in yer face adverts, but putting it out there for them to "choose" to call us Its all about subtlety, no pressure let these things speak for themselves, these people are no mugs, thats why you wouldnt get their work:lol:
  8. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    I thought it was more curvacious? or foliace as they say. interesting, I thought I had shot the crystal brain but yours looks different, maybe juvenile?
  9. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    how about Magnum tree care? lol
  10. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    I have had a bit of a go with Mycelium plugs with pretty good results but only on dead and well seasoned logs. Surely on young trees the codit would kick in and halt the progress of the fungi spreading on all walls? CODIT will of course kick in as you rightly point out, and this is advantagious, we only want the INNER core to decay with enough of a surface scar for woodpeckers and squirells to knaw at and extend into the rotten heart wood, creating a natural cavity. CODIT will stop the decay going furthe than we desire, but only if we use the correct species of fungi for the species of tree.
  11. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    Marketing is something I can do perfectly well, and I know enough about physcology, I come from a dysfunctional family! lmao:lol:
  12. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    Are you playing with us monkey! your crystal brain looks more like snow!
  13. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    Ganoderma resinaceum
  14. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    "Really with QTRA should be looking at this the other way round - rather than how likely is the failure; how likely is the target being in the wrong place at the wrong time? And because a target is not likely to be exposed beyond their own little 'risk bubble' the effects of tree population matter less... You can see I'm not a full time advocate right!" Now thats what I am talking about. I dont think on a personal level I need QTRA to evaluate the likleyhood of somone being struck down by a particular tree, and the LANTRA course is going to give me a level three qual, a tech cert membership grade of the aa and a legaly recognised cert for appraisal. LANTRA wins hands down. QTRA will have to wait till I am a full time consultant and "loaded" lol
  15. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    I had a ltd company, called it driftwood tree surgery. If I was to "go again" it would most likely be arboricultural services, because the clients I would want to attract would know what it meant and would be more profesional to them.
  16. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    my firm use tree specialists too, J& D clark "treework specialists"
  17. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    good job they dont grow in our urban environment!
  18. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    Maybe not blind but honestly am i bothered about what THEY would do in my shoes, or their idea of whats viable financialy etc, that is a business descision only I can make. I was asking not wether I should or should not buy and why. But what everyone else uses and why, so that I can make a more informed choice. the picus is a costly bit of kit I see little return on, wheras fracto is 17oo quid and many times more useful in terms of info gainded, unless somone has something to elaborate on that statement?
  19. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    Thanks, some reassurance much needed at the mo!
  20. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    rent isnt much cheaper than mortgage and is as far as I am concerned a no brainer, my house is going up in value each year. yes even at the moment, due to location. I have the repayment option interest only is just too easy a trap to get used to it, at the end of it you own nothing.
  21. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    but how many poeple walk there on a gusty day? on a wet and windy day? one day is different to the next in all terms, number of walkers etc etc etc. I think this is a nightmare calculator scenario, but i am listening, but i will take some convincing that statistics are valid
  22. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    Oh well i might not be getting a new mortgage in may after all then! thats a spanner in the scheme!
  23. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    it also gives a good indicator for duration of infection to failure averages which is something ive never considered before.
  24. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    You need NOTHING! if you can pay the rates they will offer you, if I can get a mortgage ANYONE can. I could give you a few numbers if you like, though things have changed a bit with the banks these days, they do still however gladly take your money if the returns are good!
  25. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    Note to self, must try harder at this shadow lithing! Lunge shadow! An oak from today, resinaceum at base, might be doing this one at some point.

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