Tony Croft aka hamadryad

It is a good roosting oportunity, not maternity but certainly a stop gap for lone males, for staining to occur there has to be a large build up and a run out potential (maternities usualy) there will often be little evidence of a lone male, or small groups. IMO this tree is a valuable habitat. and bats use VERY low entries to hollow stems.

I will try to be there, snow has held me up so maybe behind at the time but 99% likely I will arrive.

I clicked expecting some nightmare hungup scenario! although, I would also say that the cut and chuck can be arisky game to the uninitiated, rigging can be and often is more efficient, and certainly safer for the operator

Not really been thinking about it, a lot of what im researching is a bit leftfield at the moment, I have nothing original to say at the moment so not really in that zone so to speak. Though Im sure aspark will return at somepoint:001_smile:

not that interesting, but obvious when you know the cycles/ecology:thumbup1: in nature everything has its roles and niche:001_smile: you may be lucky enough if you check to see the fungi eating the stereum, both Tremellas foliacea and aurantia consume streums, and very pretty they are too.

good to hear Tobias, missed your enthusiastic presence this autumn.

snowed in, and had the urge!

the big plane by the wier on the canal bridge is a tricky climb and massive, watch out for the large deadwood portions! the SSSI was awarded for pycnoporus cinnabarinus at the time there was only four records within the U.K if my memory serves me well. a few more these days, not all of the wood is designated SSSI but should be

wistmans is a VERY very special place, should be on every tree lovers Bucket list.

how many cases of inonotus dryadeus colonisation have you personally dealt with Jonny? just out of pure curiosity, less than ten? more than ten? not trying to be an antagonist, just trying to ensure the OP gets an opportunity to have some elaboration and therefore be able to "easily sift through the BS":001_rolleyes:

Gausa is considered weakly parasitic, debatable, but this is a sure sign the limb is being shut down (due to shading) or has died for some other reasons.

nice shot, a lovely plant too especially crocosmia "Lucifer" a particularly vibrant scarlet red variety. I always found the iris and tiger lilly very good for close up flower portraiture.

I would say more likey hirsutum.

well, this is relatively easy to answer, water is the base ingredient of all life, before all other considerations we all must have hydration, so soil profile and organic content is the obvious first line of approach. next we have to consider the basic elements available, none of which are available even if present if not in soluble form and no water available to make a soluble! I think that very few scenarios in tree health issues cannot be rectified by an application of adequate water, a dressing of slow release NPK such as blood fish and bone with a mulch dressing above that. Tree health is inherently linked to its growing conditions, the better the conditions (adding light to all the above) the more robust health is. Stress can be easily avoided for minimal outlay, I find it most remarkable that it is still widely ignored in practice, with chainsaws the preferred administrative process!

ive always sworn by that, blood fish and bone meal, very natural slow release and hard to overdose, imposible in fact, no ill effect can come of thisfertiliser, not even to the myco/flora and fauna:thumbup1: I have heard of ground pummice also being effective (Lee Klinger)

toward the rick, bout 3-500 yards down from the bridge over the canal:thumbup1:

I think those limes are in the big league, might even be country champs for hieght, I will come along and advise which ones to steer clear of as some have problems that are not obvious to the here and now. they are very over mature, some are not safe to climb, though out of leaf in midwinter the defective ones are easier to spot. there is one that has Pholiota squarosus and K deusta at hieght and MUST be avoided for climbing, another has an owl roost. There is a very substantial beech, on atf she is down as the queen of whippendell, a fine tre well worthy of atention, not an acurate measure but over 26 metres and bulk of timber just imense over 5 metres circumference and forest grown! the tulip in the park would be a good one to measure for the records, always fancied it, a fine tree in the autumn colour. and if one finds the tow path of the canal towards the marina, you will find a grove of sweet chetnuts that will require balls of steel to contemplate! if you want an epic massive climb, the limes and these chestnuts are the ones to test the best of the best. send me a txt when your on for a def, 07952948202

ha, this is an old thread, should have checked before replying!

hello steve, hows things? my emails changed if youve been emailing! theres lots of info out there on the merits and downside or weaknesses of the various methods, but with the advent of the new resist-o-graph drill which now detects both forms of measurement this would appear to have the best of all the methods though there is the invasive argument which I wont get into here! its a lot of hog! if you have the manual of decays mattheck (its cheap) it has some good info or drop me a line 07952948202 and I will try to send out some info:thumbup1:

no, i think those are resipunate P. fraxinea, There may be some K duesta around the area but too hard to see clearly. K deusta, does not form the way those white pore surfaces have, the anamorph of K deusta is much less uniform and has a smoky center to the white edged clusters of erupting anamorphs. I have included a sample. Also K deusta has a very specific break, that of a stone like fracture, the confusion in the term "soft rot" doesnt help, as despite the terminology it is a brittle hard fracture, an unfortunate term and one I find myself having to explain a lot as many struggle with this contradiction of terms, a soft rot resulting in a stone like fracture!

Good to see an apology for the needless part of your post, lets play nice for a change huh! Now what exactly do you mean by any statement in the thread making a mockerey of education and learning, I am genuinely interested. The way I see it this whole forum is basically an awful lot of folk aiming for a bit of education and learning, so I find the suggestion rather at odds with the forums general results? Not only that but what Rob has said is essentialy correct, so if its making a mockerey of education, could you point out where this is flawed and in relation to which accepted wisdom?

the ash has ash canker as rainford suggested, the chestnut has bud proiferation,as robin says and possibly canker forming at the basal area that is the sight of rabbit damage, hence the decay of exposed heart/ripewoods, the decay is NOT associated with the symptoms around its edges. the rot and the visual symptoms are two different things altogether.

it looks like cos it IS Perenniporia fraxinea. And while perenniporia may well be a significant factor in the decline, auricularia mesenterica is probably the secondary crown coloniser doing the majority of the sap wood damage. A very common secondary coloniser in the fungal succession of decline in pollarded ash.

I agree, increasingly so as I mature and understand the tides of ecology. I think there may be a very fine line between conservation and hindrance to ecology. I do love an ancient woodland full of bluebells and other wild flowers we have come to associate with the british landscape but I sometimes wonder if the many pathogens on the rise and tree declines are trying to tell us something we are choosing to not hear.

I think this particular example is superb, one to definatley use as much as poss. I recently got to work on a nice veteran tree, we was there for other work but I spotted this tree rather prone to losing its top in the near future. The area of woodland while low risk is an area the children will be playing at various times, not only was that a consideration I also wanted to ensure that the potential habitat of the open cavity of the central wood was not ripped open and exposed by the failure of the top. It was a burn on site job and I ended up also having to get buckets of water sent up as a spark caught the rotten wood in the cavity alight, lots of fun and games! My gut instinct for this trees potential proved right as a tawny flew out of the tree as I climbed! gave me a start I can tell you, happening a lot lately! seen three barn owls and a little owl also this last year. I guess this is more preservation than creation, but been a while since I posted anything of any worth.