charlie6

Thanks for the advice. It seemed a waste of a lot of potentially good looking timber to leave  on site. I was surprised how light the timber was, It was dead though. 

Hi, 

Looking to try and find the value of timber.

Large Wellingtonia. 

1.8m diameter @ base cut. 20m of timber. Tree was 27m. 

Good access road side, location Dumfries. 

I have used Icade and had great results. It's on a stewardship but still easy to buy.

Dogwood. Tear leaf and see if the latex strands are there.

Yes, it could be Umbellularia californica, and there is a test you can do. Crush a leaf and take a good sniff. If you get an instant blinding headache, that's what it'll be. It's strong stuff, apparently.

 

Or wait for the flowers to come out and do the ID by them, if you want the boring safe option.

I have asked them to to the sniff test. From what I was reading it should have a peppery smell. It's giving me a headache trying to I'd it.

It reminds me more of a willow than anything, particularly the bark and overall form. Not sure about the leaves though, but the Salicaceae is also a large family.

It's a evergreen. Everyone thought it is a willow without realising it kept it's leaves over winter. To me it looks similar to a bottlebrush with a few differences. The flowers should help which should happen soon.

Interesting, not something which seems obvious to me, the form and bark look very much like Callistemon sp. the leaves and buds don't fit in with this I.D, but I'd say it's something similar to Callistemon/Melaleuca from the Myrtaceae family, so probably an Australian native?

I was thinking the same and said that but Myrtaceae is a large family. Thankshe for the reply.

Can someone help Id this tree from a family members garden in Christchurch New Zealand.

Sorry about the low quality images.

Thanks Charlie

We have a product at the moment that we use on beds where grass takes over from the ground cover. A fixing agent is needed but it does work. I will get the details when in work tomorrow. Another option is to spray with gly in late winter with chikara to stop re growth of weeds.

I took a gamble and went secondhand and has been a great bike. Using strava is a good way to find trails but isn't good when your competitive, it makes you go faster than you should. Here's a picture of what happens when smash ur knee into the frame thankfully bike still ok. Have a look at some of the other trail centres there are plenty around Scotland.

I have got back into mountain biking after a good few years off and can't get enough of of it. Gone for spds as the bike came with them and really like the control and power gained from them. Living in Scotland we have tracks everywhere, I prefer natural trails but do a bit of everything. Looking at doing the West Highland Way and possibly the Caringorm Loop in the near future.

Drift are good. A good bit cheaper than gopro and a better design

I like my drift hd. I've had it almost two years and have no complaints. It comes in a case and remote which saves on the editing and battery I can send a link of a couple of vids if you're interested. I paid £150.

The Scags are very reliable and good to use. I have used a 36, 52, 48 and zero turns. The mulching kits slows them down and not always as good cut but leave a great finish if not too much grass. The mulches really struggle with moss.

Mine are active and feeding now but they are big and greedy. Feed only wheatgerm until the water temp gets into mid teens.

Think this would do the trick[ame=

Is that where i left my loppers

Is that soil built up around the base? It looks like it completely lacks any butressing if not!

It is. The developer levelled out the area 10 years ago and looks to have raised the soil around the tree by about 500 mm. Interesting to get a exact time scale.

Here's one that failed

Going tomorrow morning to price clearing one up about that size where the trunk snapped in the high winds. Will put a picture up tomorrow.

What does the smaller genny do?

 

It seems all the stumps lately are near gas and electric boxes!

It generates a signal for the cat. For example you can connect to street light when not active and trace cable.

The new cats are calibrated by plunging into your computer done by the manufactures program on line. Everything is recorded from gps to correct usage (no swinging) and can be taken off cat to prove area was scanned. The cost for cat and gen is about £1100 depending on what package. I recommend the one day course even just to give you an idea of what's underground and what they don't pick up.

Hi mate I live in Falkirk and have recently done my tickets after climbing for a while without. If your down this way over a weekend and would like a go let me know and we can get something sorted.

Charlie

Most likely they will be fine.

Because they are of sentimental value ,your best bet is to get some rootstock and graft them with wood from these trees and pot them up as a safeguard.

If you send me some wood I will do them for you and send them back.

I will commence bench grafting soon so it is no hassle for me do it.

Thank you for your kind offer but I'm going to have a crack at a bridge graft on the tree in the last picture. My mate understands that it might not survive but I like the challenge of trying something new.

Fresh wood chip.

Not good for the tree

There is a layer of compost followed with newspaper then the wood chip. My understanding is the paper will stop the weeds and allow the wood chip to decompose within its self.