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  1. Matthew Arnold
    Here are some pics of its neighbour. The bank has only been there for the last few years but kept it low past the tree as not to affect the butresses on the car park side. It has a bit of die back in the top and in between a couple of butresses it looks like the bark is going underneath the tree.
  2. Matthew Arnold
    Polyporus squamosus (Dryad's Saddle) is an intense white rotter. I have felled a large Ash with it. The tree was a twin stem with a big (35" DHB) leaning heavily toward a busy footpath. The original plan was to just remove the leaning limb but as i was rotten in the middle we decided to drop the rest of the tree. The TO had also given us the go ahead as we hit the butresses and it wasnt the nice high pitched noise we wanted. I have attached pictures of the stump from last year. It panic fruited like mad as i had removed over 70% of its food source. As the tree went over it split the stump (left enough holding wood for a hinge after boring in both sides to find base was mush).
  3. Matthew Arnold
    Although the picture showing the fungi is a bit poor. I'm going to say Dryad's Saddle. It has the tiers and the fairly fresh single one at the top of the rot column.
  4. Matthew Arnold
    Taken 13/6/11 Dryad's Saddle on a multi-stemmed Sycamore stump. Jelly ear on an Ash cut and a desicated Dryad's Saddle on a twin stemmed Sycamore (Marked up for removal next winter)
  5. Matthew Arnold
    We have a 2009 Kawasaki KVF 750. We run a flail off the back and use it for dragging/towing logs out of the woods. Brilliant bit of kit. We have a sprayer on the back loading cage for doing the trailways.
  6. Matthew Arnold
    Some of the HC's in my county town are going to be felled as the roots are lifting the footpath and road surface. They have small yellowing leaves, black lesions around the base and a couple of them have brackets at the base. The local people have gone up in arms about the plan to fell them but they dropped a few limbs during the last batch of strong winds and two of them fell over.
  7. Matthew Arnold
    Teacher says to Johnny "where's Pakistan?" Johnny says " out in the playground with Pakisteve." I was at the doctors last week, and told him my recurring delusion: that i kept thinking that i was a moth. He told me i should be down the corridor in the Psychiatrist's office. "I know i should," i replied "but you light was on and i just had to come in..." Roses are Red Violets are Blue I have Alzheimers Cheese on Toast.
  8. Matthew Arnold
    One of my colleagues lives in Broadstone as well. He has a small green Fiat.
  9. Matthew Arnold
    I think the bbc got their figures wrong and i just posted the figures they put up. At the time i posted it it was more like 740sqm rather than 740 acres.
  10. Matthew Arnold
    Yep the fire is out. Might be a few hotspots in the middle but this rain should sort it out. The rain will erode the sand alot easier.
  11. Matthew Arnold
    I hope so too m8. The fires that are started down there have a pattern (3.15pm onwards during term time) (7am-4 am half term/summer holidays). I've helped the crews out with creating fire breaks in the past. The boss sometimes isn't happy but just recently if the heath fire extends beyong 100sq metre i got down there.
  12. Matthew Arnold
    Nope just unburnt fuel coming out of the turbines. I've been in both our local Police and Air Ambulance (both down hill biking accidents) and all i will say is the Air ambulance was a much smoother ride than the police helicopter but the police one got me to the A & E quicker. Nothing serious just a fracture, dislocation of the right shoulder, a concussion and badly bruised nuts. Second time was more serious. Broke my femur in 2 places on my right leg but didnt need plating and had a punctured and collapsed left lung. Glad they had just dealt with a L.O.B car crash about 1/2 mile away.
  13. Matthew Arnold
    I've been in the one of the local A & E units when the coastguard Sekorgski has come in to land. There was a notice over the tannoy asking people to vacate the A & E behind doors as the downdraft from the blades blew the automatic doors backwards on themselves. It stinks of Aviation fuel soon after when it is winding down.
  14. Matthew Arnold
    The 40 ton of road planings on site soon filled the hole in and highways soon had a nice new road surface as they were filling in potholes weekly on that stretch. They had to put an anti-skid surface on the corner it was on because of young lads driving too fast around the bend and getting caught out on the lump/jump on the exit of the apex. My old man and i have gone comfortably round there at 80mph so if anyone goes off there my dad always says the same thing "You can only drive like a prick on this road if you know it, and have the car to do it!":thumbup:
  15. Matthew Arnold
    I used a modified version of the rodenator on a rabbit warren a few years ago. We forgot to contact the local police HQ that there was going to be a "small" explosion with the removal of a rabbit warren on a field boundary. We informed highways who shut the road off for us with two 20 ton lorries full of road planings. The road dropped by 4 feet and we had half the police force arrive because someone from the nearby village phoned up about a large and loud bang from a local road. With clouds of dust extending approz 40 ft into the air. The police saw the funny side of it luckily but we didnit expect the road to drop 4 ft:001_rolleyes:
  16. Matthew Arnold
    Unless you want an endless supply of kindling for the next 5 years.
  17. Matthew Arnold
    Nice place and the same helicopter Dorset Police use as an air operations and serious injury transporter. Its made by a company called Augusta Westland and isn't too far from me. Very quiet (at 1500ft) and very very quick.
  18. Matthew Arnold
    My words exactly as well a few others not suitable for human ears or eyes on here. The boss was going to charge but once he saw the devastation for himself i am now doing it for free.
  19. Matthew Arnold
    Taken 11/6/2011. The haycrop or lack of it. Hopefully the rain will help us a bit.
  20. Matthew Arnold
    Taken 10/6/11 First few pics taken on a deadwood Ash that we fracture pruned with a tractor a few years ago. I have seen Honey Fungus, Trametes versicolor, Polyporus squamosus, Bjerkandera adusta, Ganoderma applatanum growing on it now a new species to add Dead Mans Fingers.
  21. Matthew Arnold
    It has really hit home on my part on how hard the fire has hit the local wildlife. It is the peak of bird and reptile breeding season as well as mammals. Although i was meant to be at Download Festival this year i gave the ticket to a friend of mine and went to help with the clear up and pick up the injured animals. I had to dispatch a very badly burnt Roe deer this morning. She was shaking and her skin was charcoal so dispatched her on site as nothing could have been done. No more than 50 metres away i found a dead fawn. I am a shooting man but what these people have done is just barbaric. I hope the police find them and then lock them up for a long time. The police have the facilty to access every social networking site and check everyones details and comments. Here is the latest link: BBC News - Upton Heath fire 'destroyed eco-system'
  22. Matthew Arnold
    Sounds very redneck but ive tried it with propane mixed in on a very extensive rat burrow around a load of pig huts. Made a very very big bang but got the job done. We moved the pigs first for saftey reasons incase the floor collapsed (which it did in a few spots) but was good fun. Now we just use propane as the oxyacetylene was a bit too potent and blew some of the rats out of the holes
  23. Matthew Arnold
    I've heard of bunny boilers but never bunny burners lol. Might make a small fortune on a few bits of land i shoot on. I shot 38 of the little critters on a freshly sown maize crop in a couple of hours this evening.
  24. Matthew Arnold
    The desicated bracket looks like Inonotus dryadeus. Might have some Honey fungus milling around in there too. I recon deadwood and reduce dying back limbs with coronet cuts where possible. The other option is to fence that area of the field off and let the tree get on with it.
  25. Matthew Arnold
    Here is a link with some pics of the heath fire. The BBC didnt put any of mine up and the computer has decided to delete the ones i took. Not very helpful. BBC News - Dorset fire: Your pictures

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