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  1. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    Is that Roy finch on the ground! I hope i have as much enthusiasm as him when i get to his age!
  2. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    If I had a tenner it would be yours!
  3. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    camping roughing it on site or swanky hotel shrek!
  4. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    how do you mean apples with pears tony? are they not all for the same purpose? Oh and i am familiar with VTA, its more wether i should do the QTRA or the lantra next!
  5. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    "but I am not interested in any approach that hides behind jargon, that cannot be explained in a direct and clear manner" is that to something specific? or just in general.
  6. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    As the thread suggests realy! simples:001_tongue: See how many of you take your cameras up a tree with you! [ATTACH]27750[/ATTACH]
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    Im going to the APF, gone the last two times so this will be my third and cant wait! Who was stig in 2008? did the pole in 10 seconds. Does anyone ever camp on site for the three days?
  9. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    does it involve using that three phase wheel of fortune?
  10. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    they aint the best choice, however, do what mick suggests and treat them as hedging, make a good screen, evergreen and tolerates a lot of hard pruning.
  11. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    i asume your refering to shigos "a new tree biology" and yes its a good book, (understatement) though i wouldnt say it should be one of the first you buy? youll not get a good ident AND pruner in one, too wide apart in direstions. the best book for Ident youll get for carrying everyday is the thick black one by collins "tree giude" owen jhonson and david more for pruning start off with "the pruning of trees shrubs and vines by geaorge e brown, revised and enlarged by tony kirkam
  12. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    So you want to get started on tree assesmnet reports as a consulting side line, which one of the courses methods would you choose? VTA needs no liceance or constant financial input. QTRA I hope it doesnt soley rely on that wheel to asses risks! LANTRA>..... is that all its cracked up to be? whos done what? what do you think of the methods various pros cons? if your afraid to be honest and open you may PM off the record. thanks in advance
  13. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    Congrats mate, you sound well buzzed about it! Oh to have fresh eyes again!
  14. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    I moan to the boss about being skint, but I moan about being skint to everyone! Until i can afford to live without hardships i will continue to moan, I am british and I was born this way! I used to drink that red bull rubbish, then i started giving a monkies about my money and my health! At 37 i am niether old, nor young, i am smack in the middle too scaired to look forward to my old age and too wise to look back at the ignorance of my youth!
  15. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    Charliegh, im asuming that due to the earlier post they like these cavaties a bit high off the ground as you say they like black woodpecker holes? Is there a typical scenario, hieght diameter etc? I do know that woodpeckers are very shrewd at picking out the limbs and stems decayed by fungi, hispidus in ash which creates bark necroses is often drilled out and nested in, as are laetiporus infections in cherry stands etc etc
  16. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    your point is well made and duly noted. However I dont make ussumptions and do the "detective work" before I start hacking anyones spec. I was in this instance well justified in my actions, of that I can assure you, and assure you if you had seen it you would also have done the same. It was minimal, and not obvious, but enough to eliviate the very worst and only the very worst, I have as much duty to the client and public as the guy who wrote the spec.
  17. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    Yep thats how it works unfortunatley, and ouch, that had to hurt!
  18. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    so am i to asume what your saying is that tree guys cant be trusted to do the right thing? If so I can understand why, but then I have been on jobs that had specs way out of sync with the needs myself so if i was sure, and I am usualy when I make up my own mind, I normaly work to the spec given but ensure my argument against the spec gets to those relevant. Just as a good example we did a line of raywood ash trees a whil;e back in ayelsbury, the trees lined the verge of a busy path and two lane road, as well as overhanging all the car stock of a main vuaxhaul dealership. The spec was to light lift and clean out broken limbs of which there where many as you might expect with the variety. We all knew from the moment we arrived this was not enough, and that there would be more limbs down within a month or two. I did lighten off a few of the worst offenders to reduce the time another failure would happen, but believe me, there are as many if nmot more cowboy consultants as there are arborists.
  19. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    LMAO! Just ignore her, hide it!
  20. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    ive got one of his books, growing gormet mushrooms, he does do a good book, shall get a copy of the one suggested.
  21. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    Depends on the aamount of woody tissue avaliable to the fungus, the bigger the bracket the faster its eating, i cant remember how but I think you can age them brackets, like rings in a tree, count the number of tube layers
  22. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    but it is eaqualy criminal to remove the tree purely on the basis of a fruiting body, am i wrong?
  23. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    i think these first two are australe, hard to be 100% and yes the get a lot bigger too!
  24. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    I felt we needed to see some leaf! just to lift the spirits a bit after the cold snap! not relevant tree theme but i wasnt going to be left out of the postings:001_tt2:! i cant wait for barmy summer nights camping out in the wood with a brew on, laying back in my hammock whittling away:thumbup1:
  25. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    Inoculation of the wood with decay fungi is something ive been giving a lot of time and thought to, and you should think of them as allies in your task. depending on the tree I might use several different types, but to get a good source you are limited to those avaliable for gourmet mushroom growers. I dont think the hammer and innocluation route is a slow one, not if you get it right, it is not going to be imidiate though iether. I do think this is an area well worth investigating further for ecological habitat work.

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