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my fat wife decided to go for a wee swim, for a good cause.
sloth replied to Daniël Bos's topic in The Lounge
Well done the Rovers :thumbup: and nicely done predator Rover, which team member am I donating to? Or is it just the whole team? -
Collibia Fusipes? In conjunction with Oak root failure.
sloth replied to Gareth jones's topic in Fungi Pictures
Could well be. Was there a deep groove running up the stipe from the base? -
Cheers for that, it couldn't have looked like a more perfect mushroom to be honest. Not a blemish on it...
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Spread a rumour about the last poster in this thread
sloth replied to Pat Ferrett's topic in The Lounge
Dan is the great great grandson of Wyatt Earp... -
Out yesterday at the hollow 'hooty owl tree' in Friday Woods (no owls in it, just a big old oak) and my not quite 3yo misheard beefsteak fungus for 'beast eggs' and wouldn't go near it, preferring the hornet infested tree next to it?! After explaining she'd misheard we got home where she announced she was going to hunt all the houseplants for roast beef and mushrooms
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Can any one help with ident of these Bleeding cankers
sloth replied to alhazzard25`'s topic in Tree health care
Very nice example of the mycelium under the bark -
Sorry scrap that, destroying angel in mixed woodland, uncommon and most frequently found in Scotland. Another option could be phalloides var alba, although I wouldn't know one from the other And yes it stank!
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Thanks to Tony for the recent bimble with Warren Hatfield didnt have much going on so we went off to Epping. I took a camera I was unfamiliar with so of the few images I took here are the most 'acceptable'! There is Polyporous tuberaster (I think, sorry Tony if that's wrong!), Gano on beech, stink horn, beech wood wart, Meripilus on beech, Amanita pantherina, and a little unknown shroomy I started the day spying while I had my morning coffee I dont know what images Warren got, but Im sure Tony will add his snaps of some lovely cuticularis, fissilis, and Laeti on hornbeam among others. One other question if I may, while having a wonder with the family yesterday I stumbled upon a pure white Amanita in oak woodland, under birch. It smelt pleasant but not very strong, and had no velum scales on the cap, which wasnt yet fully expanded (the veil was just starting to break), around 6 inches tall and fairly slender. First thoughts were destroying angel but Collins says coniferous woodland, any other suggestions?
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Lots of coffee, and sleep when you can before the job. I used to try and keep busy through the next day and sleep the next night. Knocked me back to normal quicker when I was expected to do Friday and Saturday nights on the railway then back to days Monday.
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This happens right across the country. I think lpas are a bit reluctant to do anything legally expensive in this sort of case, preferring to use their powers in cases of deliberate damage or felling. I do wonder how many tree surgeons claim all work meets, or 'exceeds' 3998, having clearly not read it, maybe even seen it.
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Is it a different kettle? Less limescale? Or maybe just the sweet warmth of wood you've cut and split yourself? Glad to hear you can kick back and relax a little now either way
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I reckon up to 80% of reductions round my way look like that. Generally the customer is happy too, 'loads more light'!
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Cheers for the replies guys, meths followed by systemic spray might do the trick then
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My first tree work misfortune involved a heavy lump of holly just a few months into my first job. It started wedged between two walls, and ended with thumb nail being knocked off. It hurt. A lot...
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Not quite. Pushing a chog of poplar from a fair height out of a mewp flattened a fence below once. I was wearing nice warm winter gloves which caught on a tiny twig, as I tried to push hard and clear the fence it tore my glove and went straight down.
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Nah, PMA. Positive mental attitude, think it well!
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Fomitiporia punctata on lovely old Ash tree in a show garden
sloth replied to twobob's topic in Tree health care
Ta muchly -
That's good to see, the fruits of your labours.
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Fomitiporia punctata on lovely old Ash tree in a show garden
sloth replied to twobob's topic in Tree health care
There was me thinking 08 was the first sighting on anything ah well. I'm only on me phone at the min, what records are on the frdbi? -
Nicely done Mr B, you should be proud of yourself
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Any ideas how to get rid of persistent woolly aphids on housplants? Had it spreading for a couple of years now its on almost all of them! Mainly orchids, also jasmine. Have had it various kitchen herbs, which we binned. We've tried a couple of different sprays, manually removing or squashing them and dipping in a tub of soapy water. They are just getting worse year on year. Please help! Thanks...
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Fomitiporia punctata on lovely old Ash tree in a show garden
sloth replied to twobob's topic in Tree health care
If you suspect you have punctatus I'd get plenty of photos and a sample confirmed. It is pretty new to the UK, and I'd imagine any records will assist in working out its prevelance, distribution, decay and host preference etc. I hear it is bad news on London plane, so I'd imagine the less durable wood of ash would be quite vulnerable to it. Depending on targets etc it may be worth seeing how a re-pollard fairs... -
Thought they may be the case, you can't win them all!
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Another vote for retrenchment pruning here, to conserve habitat; looks like very low target value.
