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  1. David Humphries
    the birds that rely on the wee crawly things in trees would love that .
  2. David Humphries
    Been out there a while, but only just seen this. [ame]https://vimeo.com/41870429[/ame] kinda takes the human risk element outta tree work, climbing wise !? .
  3. David Humphries
    Big tree Tim, smart fell. I think the tree came down due to your big saw more so than the kretzsch and Armillaria at that particular point in time Plenty of strong adaptive growth at the base with the buttresses. Was the kretzsch into those or still in the heart at this point? No appetite (or funds) to consider reducing? .
  4. David Humphries
    I was born in Germany but happen to like it here more. Haven't been to Berlin since about 1990 when things were quite different to how they are now. Don't particularly remember it being strewn with green things, but then I was playing football and propping up the bars .
  5. David Humphries
    Berlins urban and peri urban greening is a whopping 43% compared to Londons meagre 10% .
  6. David Humphries
    Slick .
  7. David Humphries
    If your suffering from insomnia, the transcript to yesterday's debate can be read here.... House of Commons Hansard Debates for 10 Dec 2015 (pt 0001) The upshot being that "the 'House' has considered protection of ancient woodland and trees".........then the sitting was ajourned. . .
  8. David Humphries
    he lives literally 2 minutes away from them and I guess that out of the 590 trees in the park he happens likes the seasonal changes of that specific group. .
  9. David Humphries
    From observation I would say copper beech are less likely than common beech to host Kretzschmaria duesta, but that doesn't mean it can't be colonised. The spore of Kd will everywhere, so as its Colonising strategy is 'Sapwood (roots/buttresses) exposed' the key will be keeping whatever tree goes back in the hole, free from stress and mechanical damage. Replanting with a tree that big will quite possibly lead to some broken roots during transportation/planting. Worth considering why the first tree became infected .
  10. David Humphries
    Todays House of Commons debate on the 'Protection of ancient woodland and trees' at Westminister Hall Parliamentlive.tv - Westminster Hall .
  11. David Humphries
    cheers for the follow up Ian. Something's better than nothing I guess, but wouldn't topping it in half and leaving it in situ not have been similar in price/time? and dealt with the risk. Doesn't look to have been a particularly high foot fall area. What's happened to the main trunk, any decent timber left in it? .
  12. David Humphries
    We planted a memorial oak yesterday with the family of the Head Garden from the site from way back in 1900. The family had a tree planted for their Grandad and his son (who was born in the park office) in 1990 but that sadly didn't survive The new tree was planted within a line of veteran oaks (that Albert would have seen looking pretty similar to how they still look today) as a long term replacement for a couple that had fallen over in recent years. First shots are of Albert William Thompson from a hundred years ago and a few of yesterdays planting. .
  13. David Humphries
    That's a whole heap of biodiversity disappeared Ian. No appetite to even leave some of it on site as habitat? .
  14. David Humphries
    Fine piece of work hope it gets out to schools .
  15. David Humphries
    I tend to agree with Kevin and Ali on Id. I think you have two separate fruiting bodies of the same species at different times and taking different form. In terms of being fan shaped and 'brilliant white' the fruiting form of Laeti really can vary a great deal. The below example (Laeti on oak) shows both features you have seen on the top fruit body on the cherry. Is that a void of slice that you've taken in the first image? If so, do you have a shot of it? .
  16. David Humphries
    Unstable hollow willow pollard that was on too high a foot fall target area to leave or reduce, so we pulled it over........ [ame]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xF-2KEbh3ag[/ame]
  17. David Humphries
    I suspect Ganoderma spp Would be very interested in seeing both a wedge of the fruit body and a cross section of the trunk decay if you get the chance .
  18. David Humphries
    Inonotus hispidus innit ! .
  19. David Humphries
    No wedge........amateur ! Did you learn nothing .
  20. David Humphries
    Give me a call during the week Chris, If your up for the travel, I'm sure we can arrange for you to attend a Resi PD400 session at work. (Hampstead) We often use ours post failure and during various basal and aerial investigations .
  21. David Humphries
    Perhaps not as much diversity as there needs to be .
  22. David Humphries
    we use a similar version to Gefa that Treeworker have developed, more often to be used as tethering system at work, but conventionally as well as you say, checking and replacing when necessary is key [ame] [/ame] .
  23. David Humphries
    Some removals, but certainly not all. I've been to Kew a few times since the fatality and have been looking at the work they are carrying out to mitigate risk of further branch/tree failures since the incident and have specifically been looking out for bracing removal. I was there on a seminar last week and there are still braces (old and more recent) in a number of trees close to and above footpaths. Not sure where the 'fact' that you mention came from. .
  24. David Humphries
    Sparrowhawk that decided to land in front of me with its meal. .
  25. David Humphries
    Certainly Ganoderma but difficult to ascertain which one between applanatum/australe without looking at spore under a microscope. It 'looks' to have the morphological characteristics of applanatum to my eye. .

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