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  1. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    SWEET! you just made my day mozza, ta:thumbup1:
  2. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    Right I just love a bit of VTA, so post your best tree defects here! heres a goodun to get it started, a torsional moment (twisting of the main stem)resulting in a fluted trunk due to star fracture in main stem (aposing 90degree cracks right through) the stresses are causing the tree to compensate for the defect, and causing the "pointy nosed rib" four ribs (the flutes) in this case, they spiral all the way up, its better in the flesh, the images being 2dimensional dont show it so good. Edited thanks to deans input! love it!
  3. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    yep missed it, lost track of my days, only got virgin! oh Booger!
  4. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    damn, had a similar image too!
  5. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    its funny going through all my old images, finding shots that have been burried in a hard drive for ages! kinda enjoying it too, finding some old gems in here!
  6. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    heres a nice beech I did a while back, just came across them in my image library, this was a big old tree, pictures dont do it justice really.
  7. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    went up to whippendell to check a bracket (same one in image i posted) and i am now 100% on this being fraxinea, oxycarpus was a dumb arse idea as it is WAY too big! the bracket I went back to has now aged and has Identical tones as the one in your image, rigidiporus wouldnt go that colour. Cut into flesh and youll see a faint tube layer identical colour to body flesh, no doubt.
  8. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    cool, see you in a year then A lopa, that wont get done by tuesday lunchtime!
  9. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    I got a dd hamock, and they are good, do the job, are light and easy to carry, but basic. sometimes thats all you want though.
  10. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    fella, your posting some REALY interesting stuff! I had no idea there was more than the groves sillet etc found, keep it up chap i love it!
  11. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    I have had a site before, it was great but it was so long ago and prices will have changed a lot. i used to pay 30 quid a month just to have it re submitted to all the engines regular etc, it was in the top ten sites for photgraphy in the uk so i considered it worthwhile. like steve says you get what you pay for, but i am broke so budget is my only option for this little project. The input is appreciated
  12. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    I can see it now HSE bloke; You really shouldnt be doing it like that SAS trooper; BANG! sorry fella, forgot the safety, what was you saying about health and safety? oh dear!
  13. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    you lot want to pack that sea rubbish in and come do some prper fishin for reet lumps!
  14. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    what you lot like! Climbers dont have to workout! not less they spent too much time in a mewp or using a stenna lift!
  15. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    sound advice I reckon, we will only do ourselves down if we was to go the "budget route" come out the other end and find a market that expects cheap!
  16. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    Go for it! i know i would given the chance.
  17. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    I mean piptoporus quercinus! doh! its often mistaken for fistulina from below.
  18. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    Ive been racking my brain now, looking reallllll hard and do you know what, that is looking like a very very rare find to me, the oak polypore, polyporus quercinus and a very important find if I am right. i will try to get in contact with the finder recorder.
  19. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    that pic on the link of the dead emergents all white and malformed is in my opinion nothing like any squamosus ive ever seen, im going for another look!
  20. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    How do you manage to remain so relaxed about work? are you free of a mortgage!
  21. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    good stuff, was there heavy rain before the photo of the big clump with the quad in background?
  22. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    pretty little thing aint it, looks gorgeus with a little sunlight coming through
  23. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    not disputing the image added but I will say for me, there are a few points that make this a little dubious as P, squamosus. the undulating fringe, the lack of cap scales, the lack of openness and structure to pore surface see this one of equal size, velum scales CAN be washed off by rain on some fungi but NEVER have i seen it on squamosus. and the pore surface is almost angular on squamosus see third image I think there is little chance of it being anything but squamosus, however it isnt atypical in form, maybe a slightly genetic mutation? variation is common place in fungi, but this is a form most unusual to me and the images added are much more widely characteristic of the species. Though I stand to be corrected and welcome it?
  24. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    sounds to me your going to fit in just fine! welcome aboard
  25. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    even so, this is a tough game, especialy if youve been in an office for time. do a winter or two, work in the rain, the sleet the snow, shift cord up an embankment, take some stick from the old hands etc, THEN make up your mind!

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