Tony Croft aka hamadryad

that caterpillar is just mental, and as for the bore us no more anyone that finds a thread of this caliber boring wants a their head testing and b to find an alternative line of work! IMO

What an absolutley stonking bit of wood, got a cube I cut a fortnight ago just like that as a table in the front room. oak, best wood in the world, next to a bit of yew of course! hard to choose between them!

Thanks for pointing this one out fella, simply awsome and i fully appreciate its point and purpose. I will no longer wonder such silly things again, i thought it was all a bit silly when I first read about it, thought it was a bit of an excuse for a jolly. How wrong was I. You have the greatest job in this solar system, of that there is absolutley no doubt, i am more than just jelous, i am the corn king himself, the jolly green giant. absolutley wicked thread.

Top banana, aint herd that one for donkies years!

crikey i know arbs have thick skin but flippin eck, the guy says NO, whats the big deal, get your own site if you want to get into that. pm's like the others say. strewth, how many pages devoted to this why debate? and from what i can tell someone made a dig about a stolen mog. Ditto to other comments regarding that issue.

Nice work, natural rather than th emanicured look i am forced to do all the time, what your doing is way nicer in my opinion. also better from the regrowth perspective and future form after regrowth, top draw.

:001_rolleyes:mmm, I think i must point out at this stage after seeing a few comments that i might be leading this down the wrong path. give me some time and a little reading and i will clarify this position a little. I aint going to just continue on this path. i need to get my facts spot on, or you guys are going to crucify me! maybe Alan will give me a hiding too! LOL

If a cuckoo lays its egg in another birds nest and allows its young to be reared by fosters, how does it know what to do? our brains have hard wired instincts too.

its really hard to have hard and fast rules, each case is unique, thats the nature of the beast. I always avoid too much structural thinning, but enough to allow light and new growth to come through the inner crown. A pollard as with a heavy reduction tends to kill off any inner growth and retard its initiation. as for internal growth, what i ALWAYS try to do with any tree is re distribute the growth patern away from the typical form associated with managed trees, ie no internal growth, this helps carbohydrate distribution and secondary thickening where it is need most, near to junctions and pollard heads. I dont know many guys that consider the inner growth to be anything other than a major incumbrance to them whilst working a tree! but the inner growth is so important for many considerations # for a start some poor so and so is going to have to climb it later. the tree might need a radical reduction at a later date, inner growth well thought and established makes this an easy affair at any stgae of decreptitude in an old pollard.

mmmm you dont really believe that do you? are you suggesting that this is a developing ocult, with Alan as the "god figure"! oooohhhh heritics them followers of the rayner!

Crown restoration NO problem,

That is the most ridiculous thing ive heard said so far! Hardcore scientist? Listen, seems to me that darwin is a god to you, after all what your saying is that he cant be wrong, darwin was a man, a genius yes, but a man, a man with great insight and knowledge. however, all laws eventualy become supersceded by more refined laws thats life, we move on, progress, deeper understanding. darwin is one of my personal mega heros, the godfather of ecology and the theory of evolution. But it is a theory that is becoming not so clear, darwin suggests that all creatures are in an arms race aginst oneanother. Rayner suggests that all species evolve together, in harmony, like water being poured filling each niche, if this was not so diversity could not continue it would devolve, that is nowhere on earth evident other than with the human race!

yes christmas gets a bit hectic when youve got a family to think about, have a good one mate and If you want to know more or ask questions just stick em in the thread i will be looking out !

Are you kidding! no, I might check with a groundsman on a really big broad reduction but I am usualy doing this kind of work with my blindfold on and one arm tied back! Seriosly that tree was done in around 15-20 mins, and I wasnt rushing it! practice thats all.

This is the pathogen thats killing all the frissias, we was one of the first to report the disease, does anyone know if there are updates on the problem yet?

Another one for the reduction appreciation society! Lets see less fells and more of these, we will have none left otherwise! [/ATTACH]

i know that the law is an ass!

What other thread do you refer to? the rayner theory one?

merry christmas to you too fella, hope you get some work in the new year, would like to help, but im all the way over here in the south east! Have a good one little one.

Its gone awfully quiet in here! bundle, tim, slippery, had enough?

What happens in your own home is your business, but if it spills onto the street, well then its public business and your asking for trouble, they wouldnt have made it as far as the street if it was me...... if somone threatens your wife and kids with a knife and says those things, then its eye for an eye in my view...

Yes and |I REALLY appreciate the comments, but its as much about the clients "understanding" I quote " the clarks ( my boss and father) are a lovely bunch of people but they never take enough off" Loppers and toppers are not only cheaper, the client thinks they get a better job! we dont stand a chance while this is the case

Stop picking on me, or i wont play with you meanies anymore! I was clearing a tree from the river, they was my own waders too and had been unused for six months i cut them on the first cut! was gutted.

I do, but i dont see why I shouldnt also concern myself with the crap work of others, it does after all reflect badly ON US ALL.

yep! had my Klima airs on under em too before the questions get asked!