Harrison2604

Honestly mate, through my experienced on Arbtalk, It's probably completely pointless asking me. I've given advice before and hamadryad corrects me not long after, which he will probably do shortly after this post, guarantee but whenever I see a Ganoderma on a tree that isn't looking so healthy, I weep and recommend removal or pollard, depending on where it's located and where it would fail. I don't have access to any decay detecting pieces of kit, so I'm unable to test for the percentage of sound wood or xylem functionality and such like!

Are you saying that this one didn't look like a yeti?

COME IN!! The more the merrier.

oh my goodness. Brushcutter, you've opened my eyes

I know of 1, and she's useless. I think if there is to be good female arborists, which I'm sure there may be some, they'd be proper yeti looking so it wouldnt be very pleasurable working with one. Ha! One thing me and a mate brought up in the pub the other day (and I know it's really random) was japanese arborists...? do they have arborists over there? I just can't get that image in my head. not meant to be racist in any way, if you're a japanese arborist, and you take offence... im sorry.

Lordy lord. Do both of you still make mistakes at identifying these two Ganos? I honestly cant see much of a visual difference. All G. adspersum brackets grow differently, and they look like G. applanatum! and vice versa! It's hair pulling stuff, fungi.

Evening, as some of you know, I'm a novice with fungi... I know the odd one here and there and I'm trying to broaden my knowledge Could somebody PLEASE tell me, the major differences between G. adspersum and G. applanatum? They both look the same to me.

This veteran tree handbook has a lot of interesting information in! It's gonna take a while for me to get through all of this, take it in and remember it! It has a lot about pollarding aleady, on the first page!

Fancy linking me some studies that you think are read worthy?

Will call you early next week if still available

I bloody enjoyed this thread. Stephen, you're one hell of a bloke

Cheers mate, I'll have a look about for that now

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2 years, I know... I'm still young, new and learning. I have never seen or heard of this type of pollard, and neither have Arborists I know that have been in it for 10 - 20 years...I can't find any research on it either so I'm struggling to see a major reason for doing it Yeah I read his post, but again... just because I and many others aren't aware, must mean it's not something you need to do? I was never taught about this teqhnique and as far as I'm aware they aren't teaching students this today as something which is important to do to encourage and support new growth I'm not here to be big headed and think I know exactly what I'm talking about all of the time, I'm not like that... AT ALL! I love trees, I love the job I have and I wish to follow it through for as long as possible. I'm here to learn, thats what I signed up for mate and you along with many others are teaching me a hell of a lot & I appreciate and take in everything you all say

Oh absolutely. But I've never seen anything like this before and neither have the Arborists I know down here so this obviously isn't something widely known which should mean that this type of pollard doesn't have much, or any real need or value to the tree over the usual full pollards that we know? Soo, why was it used here? Thats if he was intending to do a 'giraffe pollard' and not some sort of reduction haha. Theres also a young dryads saddle in the middle, can you see it?

I've just read through the whole thread again and made myself like a complete tool. I was on the complete other end of the stick

Oh blimey haha. I know my image was G.pfiefferi... I got it off the fungi directory!! I was posting it because I thought it was the same Ganoderma spp! Wrong... again! I'll get there one day.

Can't say I'm for it though ha ha

Haha. Well, when hamadryad said that it was a G. pfeifferi, I thought he was referring to your picture as well as mine.

How much is it to get in? Sorry

I'm in Daventry

Interesting! I'd like to know as well

Oh well! No harm in putting 1 picture up.

You didn't get the ident wrong, It is a G. pfeifferi

I have removed it, you're right! I don't want to step on peoples toes. I just don't understand why they decided to do it like that?