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  1. RobRainford
    ive seen that birch! i should go back to ness, been 2 years since i was last there!
  2. RobRainford
    All sat here in rings. Range of sizes 6" up to 12" and 10" thick to 22" thick. No sap running out. All pretty dry timber. Some nice early spalting in the base too by the looks of it Can deliver if reasonable distance
  3. RobRainford
    I would LOVE this position. Shame it's so far away! Plus ive got commitments up here
  4. RobRainford
    We have a 10ft one for sale. Fixed angle and will fit on tractor loader euro fittings. Rubber blade along the bottom. Bought it last year but never used it. Bit of rust but in good order. Was on eBay last week.
  5. RobRainford
    I'm taking one out today. It died a couple of months ago so is already drying. It's about 20" at the base and is about 25-30ft to the first branches. In St helens. Any offers?
  6. RobRainford
    I have a portek log master. It's great. I put my 660 with 20" bar on and set it right out. If you can lift it on it will cut it! I can't fault it, it saves time and also saves your back and saw chains!
  7. RobRainford
    do they come in type C? i think i may go for a set if so!
  8. RobRainford
    I saw a fistulina occupying a chainsaw cut too, looks like a fisty anyway, it was on a carved log! On second looking, it could very well be where one used to live but someone poached it!
  9. RobRainford
    What's this? Is it another pholiota? It's on a beech log. Its immature so I was unsure.
  10. RobRainford
    Some pholiotas and hypholoma from today not much honey about because of those! this wet weather has brought the blighters out in force!
  11. RobRainford
    There's a couple. But nothing as significant as croft or whip. Dunham is good but it was still too 'managed' for my liking. I'll go back to Dunham Massey and have a good walk. They had a large area of vets blocked off because of deer rutting. The weather wasn't brilliant so it didn't make it too nice to be walking around so I'll go back when it's drier. I'd go to croft just to retrace our steps to shoot some of those castaneas again and have another look at the mega oak I'll see what I can do, are there any other areas of whip we didn't go through that would be good 'fungting' grounds?
  12. RobRainford
    glad to hear it it was at a national trust place not sure how to do that? I saw it and went ooooo I know you'll like this! I'm thinking about a revisit to croft castle to get some images of the fistulinas we saw. They should be well developed by now. Plus there's a lad on my course who has asked me to let him know when I'm going on any more trips, another one for the army? could do another day at whip if your free over the next couple of weeks.
  13. RobRainford
    And what I believe to be a Hericium sp.? And also is the second one an Exidia sp.?
  14. RobRainford
    Couple more from the outing. Closer shot of the fistulinas on the oak
  15. RobRainford
    Hama: you turning me into a nutter. Went out to Dunham Massey and the girlfriend thought I was crazy when I got all happy over this particular oak
  16. RobRainford
    The way we do it down on the docks is get them to supply the salt and we will do the rest and just charge them for machine hire and time. Our pickup mounted machine had an issue with the rotor but it was replaced under warranty and was fine after that.
  17. RobRainford
    Oh sorry. I rushed and read the message earlier. I read the bit about it being American but it didn't register in my head! Never mind
  18. RobRainford
    Buy cheap buy twice!
  19. RobRainford
    oh yeah i was referring to A. mellea but that may still be wrong, guess i should have been more specific!
  20. RobRainford
    i used a 365 for a few months last year, i had a 15" and 24" bar for it, i mainly had the 24" on it as i had a saw that would cut on smaller bars. it was a good workhorse, a bit heavy and afaik its a semi pro saw, but i never had a problem with it and it always ran a dream.
  21. RobRainford
    go as big as you can afford, your productivity isnt hampered by a chipper that isnt up to the task and then your left thinking ' if only i had another inch on the feed this branch would go in' id vote for the turntable greenmech or a timberwolf 190 if you can go for it.
  22. RobRainford
    Its odd, how poeple have only taken notice now that the trees have been felled that the whole village wants them back, if they had enough super glue, they are stood on the pile of woodchip, something to keep them occupied. surely this makes the story irrelevant, a company wanted some trees taken out that they owned and were not protected, so they were felled, not illegal, no toes stepped on, no point complaining now! Thats as simple as it gets, the guy is trying to earn his living, we dont go into their shops and businesses and ask them to stop what they are doing because we dont want them to! If the trees were so important to the village, why didnt they have a TPO on them already?
  23. RobRainford
    Well armillaria produces enzymes that fool the tree into thinking it's a mycorrhizal fungi and then colonised that way (thanks Hama for that one!). I personally dont think the digging of the path would be such an issue for a large tree and there are other factors that attributed to this, such as the wound on the side, fungal spores could have colonised there. With the older path being there already, the bulk density of the soil beneath would have been difficult for the roots to grow in, so very minor, if any, roots would have been damaged during the digging.
  24. RobRainford
    Bleeding canker doesn't necessarily kill the tree though, it weakens the tree and is a vector for other pathogens and creates colonisation sites for decay fungi to enter and lead to the trees demise. We've got a young (less than 20 years) chestnut and it's got bleeding canker, some bark necrosis but it is still vigorous. I believe that's right anyway.
  25. RobRainford
    Or even worse, old dry dead conifer, that's given me a few sore fingers!

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