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  1. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    I love that kitchen, all nice curvy lines awsome. and unique too.
  2. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    It sounds perfect! what better way forward than to utilise all our waste products? Though it does have to be said, that plastics are more bio degradable than prviously assumed, fungi have been found in the fuel lines of jets, and devouring CD's!
  3. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    Help with Bumble bees - Wild About Britain having all my life done whatever i can to preserve and encourage wildlife i havent really paid much atention to "protection" law. Not only that but when you do look into these subjects you often find the law is iether non existent or inadequate, your own experiance is often greater than the guidlines! and in at least one instance IME (stags)the "experts" are not able to tell you what you need to know! We should all do whatever we can to protect ALL life, with or without guidance from the powers that bee, (pun, sorry!) The sad truth is, most things are not well documented and or protected and while we dont need more problems, these problems will pale into insignifcance to those faced by a loss of bio diversity.
  4. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    I know what your saying here! I have a tendancy for slamming on breaks and bumping curbs at a moments notice whenever I see an awsome tree or fungus from the vehicles! Thats what I love about this forum, unlike at work, here I can show and share and discuss the things i see and discover with others that are truly pasionate about these things. While the lads have their lunch im off on mini adventures seeking em out, stopping at the "wild woods" on my way home. I just cant get enough of it, and the more i see and learn the deeper the bug grips me. Thank god for the trees! what the hell would i do otherwise!
  5. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    As with the others, thats a great little book, well worth the money and time.
  6. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    The customer is not always right, thats what YOUR there for! Pines CAN be reduced perfectly well and retained. bigger cuts can be made as long as it is to a point were two sub branches leave the cut surface at oposing sides, as cambium die back occurs otherwise. continuing the sap flow on upper and lower sides of cut prevents die back and encourages occlusion. There is NO excuse for bad work, PERIOD!
  7. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    :congrats:What a great oportunity to promote awarness of these techniques and issues! i salute you sir!
  8. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    German company sells liquid wood - StumbleUpon wow, the germans are sure leading the way in a lot of areas these days! we need to buck our ideas up!
  9. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    having had a few run ins with the old bees myself i know what you suffered! on a personal note i would always try to find a way to retain them, pollard for example, and do the work in the coldest temp during winter when they are slow, if not entirely unactive, this way if the tree must be removed at least there is a chance to save the bees. as for bumble bees, im pretty sure they are protected? time for some research!
  10. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    many thanks for this one sean, that looks like a good read, shall be printing it off and putting in the old vet scrapbook.
  11. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    Blimey, that is some serious engineering! makes the old landies and hummer look like ameteurs!
  12. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    Sounds to me like you have a perfect situation for a pollard, go for it and so much better than a fell option.
  13. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    Birch is the symbol of renewal and rebirth in pagan belief, a pioneer and cover of baron lands hence the symbol attachment. The sap is a traditional tonic as is also believed to have anti cancer substances.
  14. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    nice report and work, what program did you use to paste on the c2 etc labels?
  15. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    That birch reductions a cracker
  16. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    Ive been buying loads of silly obscure stuff like that! even got one on aphids a while back! god they have a tough life! still trying to find my bryophytes and mosses book! I dont have a home, I have a library these days! no woman wood put up with it, not with fungal specimens drying out on the window sills as well!
  17. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    Less is indeed more! wait till the cambium dies back on the cuts, tut tut
  18. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    For anyone interested I bought a usefull wipe clean Id chart for a lot of lichens thats cheap and handy and portable, its got natural history museum tag on it and i got it from summerfield books at about 2.50 was well worth it.
  19. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    Its been a while since I needed a crane, you lads seem to love a heavy bit of kit! 16mm bull, steel crabs heavy slings/pulleys and a portawrap all in their own little bag and more than capable of anything you have the guts to remove in one hit while still in the tree!
  20. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    Reduced loads of scotts in my time, dont really think about it technique wise, just do what comes naturaly!
  21. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    I still havent Identified this white lichen like epiphyte, any ideas anyone? A miseltoe growing 12 inches of the ground in a postrate cottoneaster! Ramimilina farinacea? An ariel tree garden A nice moss garden on forest stump
  22. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    What is this Pita? thats the second time ive herad it!
  23. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    You know as well as i do if we keep removing, replaced or not, the loss of old stock will get to a critical point. biodiversity is already under massive threat, and decline we have to push the art of retaining the big girls much further if we are to live in a diverse and productive environment. we are the threat, not the trees!
  24. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    that sounds like good advice to me!
  25. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    if you had a specimen beech with stazi ears all over the place what would you do to encourage stability of said forks with inclusion? man made high maintanence bracing needing constant inspection and care, or encourage a biomechanical optimisation?

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