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  1. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    Do any of you guys not prefer tape strops? They do hold a piece really well and attached to a crab so much quicker than knots
  2. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    So you have two identical oaks within 20 ft of eachother smack in the middle of the two is a clump of Collybia, fell em both? you get my point.
  3. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    Now that be a great plan! imagine that, would be bedlum and shananigans golore! Whos going to chip in for a big tee pee!
  4. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    It seems to me that the old knee jerkers are still out there and still dug in to their gun pits! To remove each and every tree that displays spindle shank, or any other "nasty rotter" fungus is totaly unacceptable and usustainable. There has to be justification based on a full and certain evaluation, you just cant go around felling every tree with fungi. Trees live with fungi as part and parcel of their lives and even require them to assist in their longevity. We cannot commit every spindle shank infected tree to death on the basis of a few examples of failure, just cos we know they CAN fail from this fungus does not mean they WILL.
  5. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    Some nice Flamulina velutipes from today, just proves theres always somethingout there to find, even in the depths of winter.
  6. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    if no one else puts one up I will scan ours from work for you. These COSHH data sheets can be requested from manafacturers o fthe substances you stock.
  7. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    lol, well you do make a good thread old fella! if you wasnt such a fungi nut i wouldnt be reading your threads would I!
  8. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    Whoopie sling for me too, I think the portawraps a wicked tool.
  9. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    good stuff. I was watching bill baileys wild thing the other week, suprising how much conservation gets done due to highways work, and suprising what lives there. I have a new respect for the highways guys.
  10. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    Hey gibbon, why aint you got your ppe on in the last shot!
  11. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    well this is kind of where you would score if you was an aa approved contractor, on quoting a job you suply them with the information leaflets produced by the aa, in this way YOU assit in educating the public buyers of services and give them the oportunity to buy cheep, or buy dear!
  12. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    was there a conclusion to this beech story dean?
  13. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    I never knew the term S.U.L.E, thanks for that guys.
  14. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    For the record, the fungus is BOTh adpersum and australe, australe is the newer name for adspersum. Ganodermas are a broad family of bracket fungi and have quite different strategies/issues. Australe being an aggresive invader and capable of breaking barrier zones and even utilising the barrier compounds as a food source. Australe is a "nasty rotter"
  15. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    First 2 pleurotus ostreatus Second 2 Macrolepiata procera Third hypholoma fasciculare, and finaly Polyporus squamosus, on a fallen ash limb. last
  16. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    monkey, how odd that you have made the same observation for this fungi's common name! I reckon somewhere along the line this got transfered in culture from inonotus dryadeus, a point I put to a representative of the BMS, they found the comment "interesting" Like you say, dryads are mainly associated with the oak, in greek mythology, where the name dryad comes from, so why has this fungus, which you definatley couldnt sit on! got the name? You can sit and Ive even stood on a dryadeus bracket! I suggest like you, that Inonotus dryadeus is the REAL dryads saddle. you know what they say monkey, "great minds think alike!"
  17. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    Pholiota aurivella on the beech, lot of it about this year it seems? I concur with Dryadeus on the oak, though the first image did also make me thin Hetero like someone else suggested. Great idea Monkey! and I too love the last Fistulina image, great image. gradualy working my way through the archives, sorry for bumping an old one!
  18. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    Did Roy have his "thor hammer"! lmao i met him on the VTA course, he was never without it!
  19. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    Offering VTA inspection and reporting to people who need to prove that they have this done on an annual basis, due to the occupiers liabilities. its an issue that has come up via a contact and I can see a niche for me to fill.
  20. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    I did the VTA with Claus, my fungi Ident skills are legend! I never meant to "deconstruct" but i have to "priortise" my funds, however QTRA may well now seem the better "next option. I basicaly need to get "up and running" with VTA assesments as a side line, slow build up to consulting full time. I dont believe I require "further training" as far as assesing a trees potentials, but i definatley need training in "provability" "legitimacy" "eligibility" "quantification" and writing things in a professional report!
  21. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    Realy? So what about Ustulina duesta? what sound will your mallet give you?
  22. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    This has been one of the best threads ever! By the way andrew, that "tuber" on the grifola is called a sclerotia! A unit of compact mycelial energy, tuber being a good description these can withstand drought and fire to the point of almost total dessication. If a fruiting body is attached then it is being spent, but if large enough could be used to infect another host! I think in this we may some day find ways of reducing the potential for "pathogenic fungi" to invade our beloved specimens, introducing more favourabl and constructive ones such as grifola as "dryads" or guardians. Love it love it love it.
  23. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    I have an oportunity to remortgage in may, I am seriously considering investing in decay evaluation tools, i am wondering what you all use and why? Increment cores and fractometer (my prefered choice) resisto-graph Picus (VERY expensive) I prefer the core and fractometer method as this is such an informative method, it does have some down sides that I am well aware of. however, the other methods have some drastic shortcomings, none of wich are experianced with the core fracto methods. different fungal strategies needing an alternative tool/approach. So what are your views on the evaluation of decay in trees, what methods do you use/recommend on a personal and professional level? and what "wouldnt" you use?
  24. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    Trust me your not alone in this line of thought! I reckon you could do a lot worse than look to "encourage" colonisation of some limbs in trees that are well away from target issues, I might even sign out an area for exclusion, in other words removing the targets! Chicken of the woods- Laetiporus sulpherus, Pluerotus ostreatus, hericium erinaceas are avaliable for purchase as wooden dowels and it wood be easy to do. Would need to be mass inoculated to assure infection to the "zone" and a healthy limb to begin with to insure no "dual infections" as these might out compete your desirable heart rotters.
  25. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    Guys, all great posts and helping massivley, and i really appreciate your time on this. I wasnt trying to deconstruct anything, far from it. I just do not have finances to waste on less worthwhile aspects of my training. I am doing all this training because I am not taken seriously within this business, and never will be till I have joined the boys club of this and that letter after my name. I am a VERY capable guy though, of that you can be assured! The point about Lantra being a level three qual is interesting, and makes that my next goal, the qtra was always going to be my last priority, getting any other assesment modules a mere formality as far as I am concerned. I think there are a lot of variables in the target calculator, too many realisticaly. A static target is one thing, but a moving one is incalcuble, surely?

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