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Tony Croft aka hamadryad

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  1. Listen, i seriously like your work, its just on another level, if you have some portfolio images we have some seriously wealthy clients that wood rip your arm off for one of these, or something else of this quality. have you got a card or something?
  2. oh goody, i am odd too! theres lots of us about you know, and its good! life is much more interesting when your a wrongun! LMAO:001_tt2: very atmospheric i would say, i like it.
  3. nah mate, aint wurf the bovver is it! thats sarcasm, not a dig! just in case!
  4. mmmmm I feel another quote coming on! Galileo "my critiques will not look through my telescope" and you cannot break a laws that as yet have not been written! oh ballderdash that was meant to be " more than a lukewarm advocate" only just noticed that
  5. I am thinking that the roots of the old girl with the fibre buckling and force flow is sitting on ground prone to soil errosion? heavy foot traffic? get some mulch on her roots chap, you know it make sense.
  6. do you mean those two oaks? what work are you doing to them? sorry pics didnt come in till after i posted, awsome tree on the left, other not too shabby iether, your a lucky lucky boy monkey, where is that oak? accses to see it?
  7. lol it wasnt supposed to get added to that post! sorry, my bad.
  8. I do trust mr friend, realy i do. i know there are many many guys and girls out there doing this that have a natural "insightfull" approach to arboriculture and life in general. but that will not stop me trying to encourage this further, instill it in the young, so that they may start off on this path rather than "finding it" on their own via a long route of self discovery. and also in the true sense of my machieveli quote, I am choosing to be less than a "lukewarm advocate" of Alans phylosophies.
  9. Im waiting for consent to do some work on this beautiful old beech, reduced hard about 15 year ago, vigorous response and now needs some tlc to reduce end loading and poor inner form. little growth internaly due to density going to encourage some retrenchment hopefully, not a lot just get some light in to the crown and get some options for later. its getting embrittled in its old age so options for later reductions needed
  10. See the torsion in the left image also, nice double buckle on the right
  11. I see, wel in this case it seems he has a very good point, maybe the response to the "other" issue was due to losing the will! as for this bit... Eden added he planned to approach the BBC with a follow-up story about another rogue tree surgeon who is "10 times worse". mmmm we know who that is! I could add a few more like him too! Dear Nick, i take it back, GO ON SON!
  12. just last couple of weeks a poplar fell across a main rd, it was the main road into chesham from a41 and berko. i had badgered the owner for 3-4 months to do something about it, it was riddled with rigidiporus, one day 3-4 weeks before it fell i saw that it had moved a tad and was distressed enough to really argue about this with the (petrol forecourt manager) and i told them it would fall within a week, well i was three weeks out, thats good enough ability in assesing a trees hazard potential if you ask me. and that is not a lone example, another I said would fail did so that week. but the worst was a beech south bucks wouldnt allow me to pollard or fell, 3 weeks it was on a collarado, a very flat one, the guy got out of his car walked up to his flat and as he filled the kettle for a brew saw his car flattened before his very eyes. i wanted to sue, was subbing and they didnt want to push it.
  13. It is unfortunate that i have failed to get the message across, this is not about god, but about having a spiritual connection and love for the natural world. it is about a new way of thinking that steers away from the sort of attitude that resulted in mass histeria over Merripilus, dryadues etc and thousands of example of mans desire to "eradicate" organisms that he sees as a threat or a pest. By living in an "inclusional way" we accept all life forms "flows" energies, and diversity is encouraged and promotes a healthy diverse whole.
  14. Chestnuts are notorious for limb failures, can you spot the iminent failure here? and i can almost hear him saying it, Matthecks "Stazi ears!" nice example.
  15. torsional fracture (old) common in "edge" trees due to wind loading along/deflecteddown wood side, nice example of it. [/ATTACH]
  16. Are you joking, Mr Clark never even bothered to pass this on, i wonder why? they was friends of the family too.
  17. but I am certain not only is there a vestige of root on the underside of the old ball, but also certain the trunk is forming roots too, willow is a wonder, creeps along eternal life
  18. argh, I see, sorry fella, I is a bit slow, you know bit like the cast of wrong turn! lol
  19. Say what you mean and mean what you say! might be too cryptic for some, unfortunatley that includes me, I must not be on your wave length?
  20. mmm, it is unfair for the representative of the AA to judge the bbc in this manner, may i suggest there is a little of the publicity game at play here! dont think too much about it myself, at the end of the day any publicity for the benifit of trees and wildlife is good publicity. More importantly a great many trees were planted, and general awarness raised. may i be so bold as to suggest what I think a more suitable approach to the matter would have been? dear BBC thank you for increasing publicity for trees, but may i suggest a few pointers in future programmng? instead of alienating them and having their backs up, are the bbc going to approach the AA now? we shall see.
  21. whats the deal on writing submissions for the mag? got two articles i am working on at the moment I like big butts, and i will not lie! Fungi, the beauty in a beast, title needs re think
  22. Some more mycological wonders for the fungi freaks! [/ATTACH][/ATTACH]
  23. Yep it has to be said those HB boys do a darn good service, if any of you honey boys are paying attention are you still thinking of doing something special at the APF this coming year! cos If you are get on the mail and get your thumbs out your behinds! you know who it is!

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