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  1. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    The hardest work i ever did was as a boy on a lifestock farm, to this day it was the best time I ever had, it was hard and i mean back breaking work long hours but that life, just made it all worth while. i guess it all boils down to some people want it easy, others just get on with it cos lets face it, life is graft, end of. you can bitch and moan about it all day and get yourself all uptight wound up and slag the way things are right off, but at the end of that youll still left with a life to get on with and work to do!
  2. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    i hate to have to drop a reality bombshell but in those days while the money might not have been great often housing came with the job, a lot of food would have been readily avaliable on the estate and to be honest, Most people would be happy with the pressure release of that lifestyle.
  3. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    some really good points there. well i am in a semi rural area these days, all our chip goes to power plant at slough, rent on storage is even with returns so nothing major about that route to be said. I do think your right about having some kind of system inner city especialy for making best use and not only value from waste but also best use in terms of carbon cycle and reduction of imports etc. we do need to get back to a more local produce system, and i mean the world over. councils are great at "new ideas" green things" and generaly wasting money, lets push and use this to our advantage and at least get them wasting money more effectivley and environmentally friendly!
  4. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    so cynical! know where your coming from though!
  5. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    skyhuck, do not patronise the c--p out of me, youre a stick giver, and you KNOW exactly what youre saying when you say it! whilst many trees fall apart and go on to live a long life, pollards have very different structures at the pollard head, collapse tends to be far more disruptive to them than an uncut tree. and so what if i think i am THAT capable?
  6. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    well uptill now because I just loved to climb, and yes for money so what, doesnt mean I dont have pride and enthusiasm for the work, and i want always to be learning interested and betering myself, my work is everything to me?
  7. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    favourite, or favourites! lol:001_tt2:
  8. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    but you DID say that these men were basicaly too... mmm stupid to have any idea what they was doing, that they just cut where ever it was less work! and kind of my point that everyone thinks these guys just went out there and hacked away willy nilly! I am certain they knew as much abou the way wood/fungi and the ecosystem functioned as any of us out there doing it today, and probably a LOT more. maybe not biologicaly speaking, but being aware of something and managing it through practice and skill is different to having had an education. trial and error, you soon learn what works and what dont. and what efects you have and there would have been other things that as a consequence became a bonus
  9. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    As already discussed elswhere, it really isnt good to be posting these links or suggesting this on this site. We all know where to look, but great that everyones looking out for eachother. just be careful who you get involved when you make a thing public.
  10. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    you say that but are you in a more rural type environment? I can promise you most of the firms in london and surounding counties waste ALOT
  11. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    i have no doubt that there wood have been obvious signs that there was issues in the rooting area, be that ground obstructions to roots, or obvious compaction leading to the same, there is always a series of clues as to what is going on in a trees life, environment, body language. etc and i have to stop spelling would with wood!
  12. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    And that you think the common garden forester was basicaly a hick with a strong back is insulting, to me as one.
  13. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    thats the biggest load of rubbish ive heard to come from you wee brother! You my friend have been beaten, and it shows.
  14. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    I aint so sure, its all about making the very most of your products really, imagine if I was to fell an oak for subsidance tommorow, and was charging 1500 quid to fell and remove all arrisings. so i am up, got the money for two days, so lets get a saw mill round the back, cut some planks store em for a while, and oh thats a nice burr well lets put an advert on e bay some bowl carver will have that. or lets winch that walnut root out they will have that for rifle butts etc etc etc it just requires imagination, look what these boys do with a carving tip! awsome stuff
  15. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    Not wafling at all, i do wish people would stop worrying about expressing their views, its ALL good man. You make a good point, but one we already know, so how about debate on HOW WE can chsange the "thinking" it cant be too hard, the public now have a better understanding of "air miles" and legitimate sourced goods etc, eventualy slowly, we will brifge this gap, and find a bio diverse, comunity enhanced way of life. it is coming, i remain ever optomistic I wanted to see Trades folks views on what is essentialy a harsh technique in the urban fringe, and what we might do about finsding our way again.
  16. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    that gets my vote so far, lovely atmosphere in that shot, spot on.
  17. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    those old pollards will in time all split themselves to pieces, and doubt many of the best examples of hornbeam and beach have long if we dont act soon. I had an idea once to gather a clan of like minded men of high calibre, we would call ourselves the ivy leuge and go about the country volunteering to work ancient pollards to save them, totaly free of charge, landrover a tipee and a chipper, loads of eco work done while at it sort of thing.
  18. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    mmmm, think maybe lichens could be a rival? if this cloning walking tree can claim, as with the mellea/ostoye fans then I suspect, even reefs can claim, and probably hands down!
  19. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    That old timer has done that a few times! nice deep gobs for verticals, and good sense of spin for almost perfect flat falls. top banana, great vid and that tree was crazy tall!
  20. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    madness, I gave you lot a thread for this imensely interesting debate and you all want to have the gene evolution flippin talk in this thread! go on the lot of you, get on over to the rayner thread and keep it going!
  21. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    well thats kinda where the term selfish gene mislead. if you mean what i think you mean, if you know what i mean! lmao:001_tt2:
  22. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    i totaly agree, and it isnt as though we dont have a market for the produce iether! madness
  23. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    Come on fella, you aint fick! and why not garauntee a five feet reduction all round?
  24. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    Paradise, When i say darwins theory is wrong, which is not REALLY what i meant but how it was took due to my over excited and somewhat emotional reply! what i measnt was that, whilst i appreciate the Selfish gene thing is of course twadddle, there are definate and very obvious truths in the theory of "Inclusionality theory of evolution" i believe it is more like "the theory of evolution by natural inclusion) bit of a mouthfull! The thing with dawkins is, he is as religous in his fervour for the darwanistic views as any of those creationists he seeks to disprove, Inclusional theory, is as much about a state of mind, as it is about a state of evolutionary, nieghbourly thinking.
  25. Tony Croft aka hamadryad
    can i just ask, does everyone agree that we need as humans to change our thinking? dont read between the lines! as it states!

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