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  1. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    You just gotta love them variables, incalcable, like I said!
  2. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    well theres the question! public wood, private land with a hundred foot wall of exclusion! hard question to answer really but its about the maths isnt it, I am still waiting to have this "clarified"
  3. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    Seven of nine, and her two sisters Angelina Jolie and megan fox are round for a coffee morning! happy days!
  4. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    just checked out the figures, lightning kills around three people per annum in the u.k, so is about evens with tree deaths. That is the reality of tree "risk" more property is of course damgaed, but people are not dying left right and centre despite the demons of D!
  5. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    Andrew thanks for that, its a good point. A friend of mine is having trouble getting consent to fell a few trees, the TO wants a "arboricultural report" before he will consent to the works, at least now I know why this is increasingly common. Whilst many people in here remain blind to the obvious trend our work is going into, I am not so foolish. I will be well placed in a year to provide detailed evaluation and reports to ALL parties reqiuring them, including the average contractor, thats a big market. as for my return on investment, a pair of tri nocular scopes, a canon D5 camera,increment corer and fracto will set me back around 7-8k, I reckon I would make that in 2 years on top of my usual wage as a climber.
  6. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    Claus's view on this is well founded on tree mechanics and biology, if you lift and or thin what you do is increase lever arm and reduce carbohydrate distribution capacity. Reduce down not thin up, simple as that, biologicaly and bio mechanicaly provable. Short fat tree - good, tall thin tree - bad.
  7. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    If you have ten thousand trees, and there is a 1; 10,000 chance of somebody being killed then with ten thousand trees then I would say that one is going to kill aperson within the year? which is utter utter rubbish of course, 2-3 people per annum (non arboricultural workers) your more likely to die from lightning than having a tree fall on you.
  8. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    i know! im on 150 a day freelancing at weekends and Im mustard! (watch how many reply to my ego mustard comment!)
  9. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    I am sorry you got a poor response to this! in there defence the thread title left me ignoring it for some time, i wanted to reply its a podery grey substance! if you split a bit of ash youll get fine fibres peeling away from the bark quite distinct of ash. the wood has no heart and is a constant pale grey when old whitish yellow when a few days to weeks old and bright pink when fresh cut. The bark is smooth and green when young, having a very fine skin over a very bright green clorophyl layer that can very easily be exposed with a light scrape by fingernail. Th older logs are grey brown and shallowly fissuerd with a diamond pattern, if you peel this bark away it will be a shiny yellow. I hope this helps a little.
  10. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    wish my boss was like that, if we work well were punished with "chores" we are paid till five you know!
  11. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    thats a big ol welly! what was you doing to that?
  12. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    yep im going, like you say its a bit chilled out, i liked it last time, think ive been twice now. Though I had money to spend last time! this time I will be like a kid in a candy store with no pocket money!
  13. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    If theres dogs and camping im in!
  14. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    I too agree with that, makes sense. and sounds like i need to up my rate, £180.00 a day, you aint getting all that action, save some for me!
  15. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    Theres a sneaky hidden lunge in there monkey!
  16. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    Flamulina velutipes (velvet shank)
  17. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    Looks like a Laetiporus munching away at that stem, how about a pollard to reatin the character/veteran value and ecological benifits?
  18. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    That is a serious Vet ash, and a job you can be well proud of, i am very very jelous. Might be worth adding this to the ATF data base, it is certainly VET class and quality photos, top draw!
  19. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    Even that sort of case is only just being elucidated, but I know what you mean and yes in that scenario i think it would not be a hard descision!
  20. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    LMAO:lol: Useless monkey, I suggest you go back and individualy inspect the chips and come back to us with more "scientific" information! Seriously though wicked fungus, green i am:bowdown:
  21. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    I have to, i am owned I will continue to be owned until i make more money, and you have to speculate to acumulate!
  22. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    So you think it is just and ethical to fell a tree based on the visual (above ground) indication of the colonisation of a fungi? Is that not what is termed "knee jerk" reaction? I am happy to condemn a tree, I am realistic but i wouldnt base my opinion on a few isolated cases and very little academic fact or research, a few isolated cases do not warrant a death nell for all colllybia infections. In answer to your question, an oak over a BUSY high way needs a good look, and a "proffesional" level of inspection, following a set of proceedures, thats how it is meant to be done, so trees that do not need to be felled can be retained. Which is kind of the point of this thread is it not? the guy was asking if this "his case" sounded suspect, and it does to me.
  23. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    COOL! fungi porn! what was the chip? biloba?
  24. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    my emphasis highlighted. I dont know why everyones up on the defence! I have to ask these things dont I? I mean asking Mike himself I would get a biassed opinion! a sale is a sale! I now understand why you are required to take books with you on the LANTRA, its a test not so much of what you can do but in your ability to use the books to work out the situation and prove you CAN. So am I right in asuming that the QTRA is broken down, you do VTA training seperatley to the target calculation stuff, good earner. does anyone have an opinion toward only using my VTA (Claus mattheck)training? is this not sufficient?
  25. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    are they? I will have to look over the whole thread, assumed it was about fifty fifty? and they said I will learn nothing from lantra, only asseses what you already know. So tony, if you was me what would you do first? Lantra or the QTRA?

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