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  1. David Humphries
    The host & number of brackets would lead me to think it's Inonotus dryadeus but I also think that it may be worth considering Perenniporia fraxinea which can also be found (though fairly rare) on oak. Both have a light coloured flesh and slightly darker tube layer What oak species is it? Do you have any images of the pores from under the bracket? .
  2. David Humphries
    tut, tut, tut...........one week out and you've forgoten the fundamentals already .
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    Apart from the obvious colour, the pores are quite different in shape & size .
  4. David Humphries
    not as 'frilly' as I would associate with C. p but from the (pink/purpleish) images, I would think Chondrostereum rather than Bjerkendera Did you consider looking at the pores with your hand lens? .
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    a golden oldie in terms of views, but one that has always stuck in my memory in terms of thinking outside the box to acheive a positive outcome for a tricky dismantle. so Reg, 6 years down the line..........with the benfit of experience & hindsight, would you have done this job any different to how you approached it back then ??? not that it wasn't the best option for this particular tree, just intrigued to hear if you ever ponder on past jobs or just bag the experience & move on ? .
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    I would of thought you should be getting on with some propper work.....no? There's an app for this type of query .
  7. David Humphries
    Which thread(s)? Some (like the employment threads) are set up for the opening post only. .
  8. David Humphries
    more a case of the whole heard taking the shade today probably looking over to the creatures with 'mad human disease' running around after a bit of leather and cork .
  9. David Humphries
    Great shots and great looking location Simon. Any specific dysfunction associated with the removal? are there any plans for a replacement going in? .
  10. David Humphries
    Just a nod toward someone who the majority of us would never heard of but who's discovery has probably saved many lives in this industry (and others) Stephanie Kwolek, inventor of the super fibre Kevlar, dies at 90 | World news | theguardian.com Easy to take for granted the work of people at the forefront of the research and development of the things that we don't give more than a second thought to. Kevlar is 5 times stronger than steel (ounce for ounce) .
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  12. David Humphries
    small job releasing an SBD over a woodland desire path .
  13. David Humphries
    but they are magnificent trees that should remain accessible until they are decrepit. Again, its the public at large who need education in common sense. .
  14. David Humphries
    They do indeed Dan nice collection of trees, but very exposed to wind & snow load .
  15. David Humphries
    did you see that Andy found a new species (for the UK) whilst conducting a mycology report for us at Hampstead. .
  16. David Humphries
    and his job being...........to stir things up perhaps Will be interesting to see what the context of the reported comment was really about. .
  17. David Humphries
    Not at that time Paul, perhaps if we did something similar along these lines now, we probably would have to put a buisness case together. budget was there and we tied into the contract for another tree/fence issue...... http://arbtalk.co.uk/forum/tree-health-care/6986-trees-failing-so-move-target.html .
  18. David Humphries
    I wonder if either/both Mr Barrell & Dr Lonsdale will be free to talk about the Kew & Stagecoach outcomes. Would be very apt & timely .
  19. David Humphries
    This old oak (Nick knows it well) used to have mown grass up to its 630cm diameter trunk with benches immediately around the trunk. We moved the benches outside of the drip line and had the metal fence errected & then left the brambles to grow unchecked. No one goes under its canopy now. .
  20. David Humphries
    The Amanitas? we were with Andy recently looking at the Hericium at Hampstead I posted in the Fung hunter thread, but we didn't talk about these Amanitas (above) which are in Newmarket. So must be different fungi .
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    yes .
  22. David Humphries
    Proper tight spot Benn, Nice rope work. Why are the buckets in those rigs so small, they look ungainly and not particularly robust. What's the Swl on them? What's the main reason for removal of this one? Cheers .
  23. David Humphries
    Would be a shame if the tourists were from Mongolia I like it and think its a good management technique. Although it's the liability angle on this type of management, you are conceding that there is a real perceived potential for failure, and as such are you doing all that is reasonable to manage people in the vicinity of that risk? Lots of children as well as Mongolians struggle to read english .
  24. David Humphries
    No significant basal issue, but perhaps left this one a little too long above a crossing, but its now down toward where we leave it as monolith with no dramas. Stopped the traffic while we felled out the indiividual main limbs. Agent-Arb managed to get the majority of them both up & down hill along the verge. The last one shattered on to the kerb but all in all didn't cause too much disruption for the traffic & pedestrians. will take another meter or so off the top to leave it within a safe falling distance of the crossing. .
  25. David Humphries
    the decline has steadily increased year on year. this is the tree earlier this week. .

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