Tony Croft aka hamadryad

hes right, not a job for the faint hearted or with a lack of confidance in ones ability, ive done the Claus elite, but I am told it isnt recognised, i will have a debate in court over that one with 20 years plus under my belt and a decade doing my own decay studies!

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Thanks fella, I do try!

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stop messing about and thrust up like a man! its too good a workout to miss out on, six packs all round to the old school! gear junkies! lol

lol at monkey! I was thinking the same thing, what monkey is saying is look at the psuedosclerotials on that! the black demarkactions inside the barrier zone, those are psuedo sclerotial plates laid down by each individual fungal mycelium in order to defend its own patch of wood or food supply. as for the bracket, its just too far gone and wthout it in front of me I am going to pass on guessing.

Alan is one of those real deep thinkers, a genius, no doubt. and dont forget Elanas work in those talks!

I cant remember now, bear in mind the volume of materials i am wading through on a daily basis, will try to seek the info out again.

lol, dont do yourself down, did you read? and if you did was it of interest or was your reply post serious!

What! no takers yet!

http://www.enspec.com/articles/ENSPEC%20Research%20Paper%20-%20Ganoderma%20on%20Trees.pdf be aware that the nipple galls of the flat footed fly are no longer considered a gaurantee of id of applanatum. there is no easy way to Ident these two and scope is, by pro mycologists reckoning the ONLY way

he wasnt saying it in reference to the NPTC certs, but the collage course

Quality posting! been there done that, and after the fire crew ghad tried too! wasnt a client nor relative, did it without charge, cos Im a sweet guy! but the other options offered might at least give Ted green a few more for his "special formula!"

Lmao!

:thumbup1:Alan rayner, we all know is the top gun when it comes to all things fungal, he is developing a theory which is very interesting and for those that might also enjoy this here is a taste. enjoy Reflections of a Natural Includer Summer 2009 By Alan Rayner On the morning of Tuesday 30th June, 2009, I had a strong sense of history, both in the making and in the breaking, as I prepared to give a talk on ‘Fungus-Tree Relationships’ in the very room where Darwin & Wallace’s paper on the ‘Origin of Species’ was first presented. My anxiety was not dispelled when recent President of the Linnaean Society, Professor David Cutler warned all speakers that Darwin’s eyes would be following them, from his enormous portrait on the wall! I addressed Darwin’s portrait and expressed my delight in his insight, as a naturalist, into the evolutionary kinship of all life, but my dismay in his rationalistic explanation of this kinship as a consequence of ‘natural selection, or the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life’. For I knew that the key message I wished to get across is that we need to move on from the Darwin-inspired habit of thinking about trees, fungi and indeed all life forms as if they are self-centred objects, subject to the selective influence of external force. If we want to evolve more sensitive and sensible ways of working with them, we need to consider the dynamic context of the complex, variable, fluid neighbourhoods they truly and naturally inhabit. I also knew that practitioners who work with real life are intuitively already all too aware of this truth, yet may find it difficult to be explicit about as they struggle with standardized rules, regulations and formulae imposed by a rationalistic mindset fearful of uncertainty. How had I come to find myself in this situation? 1. I have been working on the development of a way of explaining evolution that doesn't suffer from the inconsistencies, paradoxes and adverse social, psychological and environmental implications of natural selection theory. I have called this new explanation 'natural inclusion'. Briefly, 'natural inclusion' can be described as 'the co-creative transformation of all through all in receptive space'. 2. I was alerted to the problems of natural selection theory - arising from the fact that the logic of 'selection' isn't actually 'natural' - by my many years of research on fungi and trees. I found that it wasn't possible adequately to understand the variable dynamic relationships and patterns of development of these organisms by regarding them as if they are self-centred objects. Moreover, to do so may result in damaging instead of beneficial methods of managing trees and their cultivation, which neglect the ecological context in which they thrive - for example by growing trees in adverse soils and locations, intolerance of risk, and pruning and felling them inaptly or unnecessarily. It makes more sense to think of trees and fungi - and indeed all organisms - as naturally variable neighbourhoods or flow-forms, whose development and interrelationships are sensitively dependent on their environmental situation. Experienced practitioners are often more intuitively aware of this situation than theorists who attempt to formulate standard codes of practice. 3. During the 1990s I gradually realized that these problems weren't confined to understanding trees and fungi but extended to how we human beings have mostly come to study, interpret and educate ourselves about the natural world and our place in it, based on a rationalistic, 'whole way of thinking' that promotes profound intolerance and conflict. This rationalistic thinking is founded in the supposition - deeply embedded in orthodox mathematics, science, governance and theology - that matter can be isolated from space. There is neither any evidence for this supposition, nor does it make consistent sense of our experience. But the damaging effect that it has is to compel us to draw an imaginary hard line or 'discontinuity' between our individual 'selves' and our natural neighbourhood. This imaginary hard line is at the root of conflict between all kinds of intolerant fundamentalist ideologies as well as a source of great difficulty in predicting and relating to environmental change. 4. Partly as a result of this realization, I stopped actively researching fungal and tree biology in 1999 and started to research in an interdisciplinary way with any artists, mathematicians, natural scientists, engineers, sociologists, therapists, theologians, philosophers, educators, former drug addicts, managers, organizations - and most especially Bath University undergraduates - I could find who shared my view that we have been teaching ourselves to think in a way that is socially, environmentally and psychologically damaging. This research led to the development of a new ecological and evolutionary understanding of natural energy flow called 'inclusionality', from which the concept of 'natural inclusion' arose. Unlike rationalistic thinking, inclusionality does not assume or impose completion at any scale of natural organisation and so is a source of deep tolerance and love of natural variety. 5. I am continuing to research the implications of inclusionality, and how most effectively to communicate this understanding to a wider community, along as many avenues and with as many like-minded people as I can. I include art, poetry and a new kind of mathematics, as well as scientific observation and inference in my approach. Websites:- Welcome Inclusional Research Forum and Learning Space - IRFALS - Inclusionality Research Alan Rayner Online books:- Rayner A.D.M. (2006) Inclusional Nature: Bringing Life and Love to Science. Available from Inclusional Research Forum - Inclusional Nature Rayner A.D.M. (2006) Natural Inclusion: How to Evolve Good Neighbourhood. Available from Inclusional Research Forum - Natural Inclusion Rayner A.D.M. (2008) Natural Communion: Poems and Paintings About Our Human Inclusion in the Evolutionary Flow of Place-time. Available from http://www.inclusional-research.org/furtherreading/naturalcommunion.pdf Rayner A.D.M. (2008) From Emptiness to Openness: How Inclusional Awareness Transforms Abstract Pride and Prejudice Into Natural Sense and Sensibility. Available from http://www.inclusional-research.org/furtherreading/inclusionalessays.pdf

easy! peesey lemon squeezey! bjerkandera adusta and cramp balls daldinia concentrica

you boys! friction hitches are a bit of a horses for courses subject, when youve climbed as long as I have you learn to eliminate superfluos matters quickly. basics is always key, too much complications, i personally have come to love the helical hitch, simple fast and wear friendly as it is the most adaptable i.e the heated spot can be changed to slow wear often and for many goes. If your into gadgets and pulleys and all that jazz, whatever floats your boat, but twenty years from now, i garauntee youll have used the same system for at least ten of those years!

i think we spend FAR too much time concerned with tree hazard, theres just not a big enough threat to justify the amount of attention it gets. 2 to three people a year, the rest involved in working with them, doesnt really count as six per year

first one is pluerotus ostreatus no doubt, brackets on oak, probably old fistulina or resinaceums, though hard to tell from that image, middle bracket certainly makes me think fistulina. as for the birch just cant tell

a long way off my friend a long long way, but i am on it, BIG time

funny you should say that!

theres not much point in referencing those two in a book like that, perenniporia and Rigidiporus, they are rare occurances so bt specialised for those looking into the others in that book. youll tend to find all these books have a certain flavour, like you say its about Mycorrhizas and saprotrophs mainly. In time there will be a book for us guys thats bang up to date, it shall be known as Arb Mycota,

lol shhhhhhhh dont let them know were using the tip of the bar!

and he did ask for nothing TOO heavy! stick with the claus webber at a tenner its a bargain, good intro. Watch out for them fungi, that subject gets addictive!

i agree. hello newbie! born in 87! lol, thats making me feel mighty old lad! i started my career back in that year at the tender age of 15, when men was men and boys didnt want to do tree work! on a serious note, I do not know what it is like trying to find work these days, i have had the good fortune of having a natural ability from a tender age and never failed to get a job through a days trial. but things have changed greatly. liability issues for employers is a big cause for concern taking on a newbie. this is potentialy very risky business, one of the worst games you can get into for your health! but if your really certain this is the life for you, welcome aboard the good ship arbor, its a life i would not change for love nor money. With regards to books, seriously from the beginning, and priority. There are fpour books maybe five if you can afford them that i would start with The tree climbers companion jeff jepson i have 2nd edition, might be a newer one avaliable the art and science of practical rigging by peter s donzelli and sharon j lilly NDG James's the arboriculturists companion Stupsi explains the tree, by C mattheck and at 30 quid it aint cheap for a little book but if you get a taste of claus and want more get the VTA handbook These books will get you well on your way to understanding all you need to know to get you up to scratch and out of harms way.