Matthew Arnold
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Matthew Arnold replied to Tony Croft aka hamadryad's topic in Fungi Pictures
What you recon to this then? Fagus sylvatica with obvious ripples in the bark. We have one peice of deadwood soon to removed with Clustered Bracket. No signs of die back in crown but fair amount of deadwood soon to be removed as over busy footpath.
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Should have said. In the last pic The tree in question is the one on the right of the picture. The tree of the left is its neighbour. Just to give a comparison.
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Found this one on a small leaning Ash on a nature reserve we have just (last week) taken on. The plan of action for the site is any standing deadwood will be made safe (fracture pruned, coronetted,etc) into a habitat stick and the branch wood left around the fall zone as a dead hedge. Any living trees will be ivy banded to see any defects and we will react accordingly. We will give the site a general tidy (any partially fallen trees tidied up, deadwood stacked into heaps, recoppice old hedgerow trees). There is a small amount of scrap metal that we will be clearing around as we have already seen a Grass Snake basking under a tin sheet on the site.
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Ive noticed that one of the Beech trees in our avenue doesn't have a really happy, healthy crown like the others. It is one of the first to come out and the first to drop leaves during autumn. No sign of fungi but has a good lean on it and one of the roots has adapted to the lean. There is a small black lesion on the tension root but only think its bacterial flux. Any ideas what is causing the thin crown?
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Will be doing that on the dorset section. taking a load of pasta n sauce stuff.
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Here are a selection of pics. The last few pics are of what i had to eat most of the time i was on the walk. It doesnt look very appetising but it was food.
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We have a novelty sticker on the L200. "If you insist on riding my ass atleast pull my hair". A bit wrong with 4 blokes in the van but we also have a legend for "tea drinking" that is bolted to the gate at our office.
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Sir Patrick Stewart?
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I was gonna say Clint Eastwood but not so sure now.
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Any idea where i can buy mower blades?
Matthew Arnold replied to Matthew Arnold's topic in Landscaping
cheers. will see if they are on the council vendors list on monday. -
As the title suggests does anyone know where i can buy two 21" blades for a DR finishing deck? As ours are beyond sharpening with the special blade sharpener.
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I'm back guys. I did 22 miles in a day and a half. We did 11.5 miles on Tuesday afternoon from Westard Ho! to Higher Clovelly. Then 10.5 miles from Higher Clovelly to Stoke Camp site on Wednesday. We had a rest day today as our legs were aching like mad and we were waiting for a friend to take over from me. Pics too follow soon.
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Just to help a good friend out with moral support and got some holiday to use up so thought sod it may as well go for a long walk. He is doing it as a fundraiser for Cancer Research UK and Marie Curie Cancer Care.
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Be one hell of a pub crawl lol. Sober up between pubs. From what he has said the bit at Bude is the most challenging with big hills.
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Cheers mate. Looking forward to it. Never been to Cornwall before. The most west i have been is to Exeter.
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This week starting tomorrow i am walking with a good friend and ex colleague the South west coast path from Westward Ho. He has been walking with a friend from Minehead but he had too pull out as he dislocated his knee cap. I do a fair bit of walking but this will be my greatest challenge as i have never walked the S.W.C.P. We are hoping to reach Lizard Point by Friday. When i shall be swapping with another friend of his. I shall join him again for the Dorset section from Lyme Regis to Poole.
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Johnny Vaughan?
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Penelope Cruz
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You've informed them so now the ball is firmly in thier court. If the tree fails then its the site managers ass on the line not yours.
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Jessica Alba?
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I've been up to Westdown Camp when they were night firing. One of my friends invited me up there. It was both amazing and terrifying. 155mm tracer rounds going across the ranges looked like fireworks. Hoping to go up to the Plains next month.
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Next excursion will be the world famous Salisbury Plain M.O.D Training area. Only sticking to byways that we know we can drive. Did one we have never done before today and almost ripped the bumperette off.
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3 English Spring Spaniels all working stock. Charlie (Scraggy one) 12 years old Mother and Father Field trial champions Bramble (Leggy, whiter one) 4 years old (5 in August) Mother pet Father FTc. He can vault 4 ft stock fences without a problem. Bracken (Stumpy one with "saddle") same age as Bramble Fourth one on it way currently known as "Bruiser" as biggest one and looks to be clone of Bramble. N.B In fourth pic dog sat on step below is mother of Brambles litter. She is known as Fizz. Not our dog but they work like a pack in a woodland
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It is a stunning area. shame we had to tow one of the guys back at 4 though. His prop shaft went and being a 2wd-4wd is nackered him so towed him back from Corfe Castle to Puddletown. Took us an hour and a half but we had a towing bar so it was ok.
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Help on fungi ID please and a bit of advice
Matthew Arnold replied to detritus21's topic in Tree health care
I would reduced the weight in the limb leaning towards the road and so th same to its opposite number as Dryad's Saddle is an agressive white/soft rotter and judging by the size of that bracket the decay probably extends down to union already so may be making that unstable. So i would reduce it by about a third see how it reacts. If it dies off then reduce to unions to have a habitat stick.
