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  1. Matthew Arnold
    Cheers Hama. Is it common to have Flamulina velutipes growing on Elder? Or is it not species specific and will feed on anything?
  2. Matthew Arnold
    I sure do. We get the rejects. And then after about 2 weeks we find out why they were rejected as volunteers elsewhere. lol
  3. Matthew Arnold
    I spotted these cool lil guys growing even after the frosts weve been having. The first two pictures are of a shroom growing on an Elder. We had a limb cut off as it had split out due to the ivy and there was quite extensive white rot around the centre. The other set of pics are of a dead Oak stump. The tree was felled last winter as it was leaning over towards a hospital car park, it was heavily clad in ivy and in July it had Honey fungus growing in the base. These lil critters came up last week. I thought it was another batch of Honey fungus but it has sprung up all over the stump and on surrounding dead roots. I'm wondering if its Sulphur Tuft gone mad.
  4. Matthew Arnold
    One of our guys after being told not to chip up rotten fence posts even if all of the metal has been removed put a 6 inch straining post through our TW150. We just had the blades sharpened up and they were trashed within 5 minutes of use as the muppet put the straining post thru with the wire n staples still on the post. His excuse was "I thought it was a shredder. I thought it could take metal going through it." He helped me put the sharpened blades on the prune. Needless to say i was not amused and neither was the boss. I had to use bolt croppers to remove the wire from the feed rollers and a big chunk of stock fencing wire from the axle of the flywheel. A few F's n B's were thrown his way during his rollocking.
  5. Matthew Arnold
    That would have been a really nasty accident. Did it come out of the chip chute and end up in the wood chip heap?
  6. Matthew Arnold
    That would have been nasty. Was the chipper running when it happened or did it just break?
  7. Matthew Arnold
    Working through my ND in Countryside Management and sticking with my college work placement. And asking the big boss for a job every couple of months. Only took about 18 months of vol work and i was promoted to field worker.
  8. Matthew Arnold
    We didnt have much snow over night just enough to make the grass white but not enough to cover it.
  9. Matthew Arnold
    We got three of em. Charlie is our eldest at 11. Then we have two brothers Bracken and Bramble. Charlie is the ragged looking one. Bramble is the tall,slender one. And Bracken is the runt and has the "saddle" on his back.
  10. Matthew Arnold
    I've got some more nice pics of Sycamore and its compartmentalisation of fungi. The first pic is of where the main fruiting body in this case being Dryads Saddle an intense white rotter entered the tree. It was a multi stemmed coppice stool that had 3 big "hazard" beams removed due to the stool starting to open up. The next 4 pics are showing the rot just making its way into the remaining stems. The fifth pic is of a very small Bleeding Canker lesion that wasnt found until the day of removal. Picture 6 shows the size of the coppice stool and clearly shows where the rot was entering the heartwood. The next three pictures are of rot on the logs that had come from about 15-18 ft up in the tree. Feel free to use and annotate.
  11. Matthew Arnold
    If it sprays out it might be where the vapour builds up and it is only released when you press down on the spout to get fuel out. We normally depress ours for a few seconds just to let the pressure drop. But i can fault either the fuel or oil spout. No leaks, No spills, No problems.
  12. Matthew Arnold
    Haha. The big boss (the one in charge of money) has said that the wheel clamp is a complete ass to remove. He has tried it and it took him about 5-10 mins to remove. We are going for a wheel "bar" system that effectively locks the back tyres together so the chassis acts as part of the locking system. It is locked to the trailer with a 1 inch thick chain and a big hardened steel padlock and it has the barrel lock in the tow hitch.
  13. Matthew Arnold
    Thats strange i have some cousins living on the Devon/Somerset border in the north of the counties and they've had 3 inches or so. Ive got some more relatives living just inside exmoor national park and its blowing like a gooden and they are having 2 ft drifts piling up against their rear windows.
  14. Matthew Arnold
    Haha. Sadly knot. But have learnt my lesson. 1. Remove wheel clamp first before moving chipper back. 2. Don't let the muppet who put the chipper on my finger go anywhere near it when removing wheel clamp. And most importantly... 3. Quicker reflexes. The wheel clamp takes about 5 mins to take off n put on as you have to slacken it off with a flat head screw driver which is the time consuming part. Might have to buy a new wheel clamp.
  15. Matthew Arnold
    We got a pretty good dea lthe other day from the council tree team we use for highway tree works. We borrowed their TW150 DH chipper for a week and at the end of the week they phoned us up as said feel free to keep the chipper we have just bought a new one. It is now our own chipper to use and lend out to the rest of the ranger service. The only trouble is only me and my boss can use it as we are the only ones in the service with tickets.
  16. Matthew Arnold
    Enough of a lever to pull it over. It had the 3 worst things for a tree to deal with. 1. Strong winds 2. Heavy persistent rain 3. Fungal problems. Although i have seen big leaning trees in the middle of summer just randomly fall over.
  17. Matthew Arnold
    If the TO had seen the Merip it would have been a 25% reduction and monitor each year for die back. Mother Nature helped everyone out as it removed a dangerous tree.
  18. Matthew Arnold
    Now that would make me yelp n swear. The last injury i had at work was a 3 corner cut in my shin when i walked into the edge of an Oak rail. I didn't pay much attention too it until my foot felt damp and my white sock was red. Quick scoot to the local A n E 30 mins later came out with 6 stitches and a big dressing. But my god did it sting when they put those sterile wipes on it to clean it out. I sadly did let a few F words fly around.
  19. Matthew Arnold
    Cheers. My dad did offer to clean it out with those alcohol free wipes. I did warn him that he may end up with a bruise or two lol. He knows im only joking but i got loads of sympathy from the guns today as i was meant to be shooting but gave the place to my dad. lol.
  20. Matthew Arnold
    Not a great pic coz of the saw dust but it looks suspiciously like Merip. Not sure which one tho. Might even been Griffola.
  21. Matthew Arnold
    Now that one makes mine look like a graze in comparison. Needless to say my dad was not amused that it had been 999'd. He did say to my colleague that it was very stupid calling it in as my colleague could have driven there. In future unless it is life-threatening (pouring blood, open fracture,etc) we will drive to the nearest A n E. We have two trucks easily big enough to lay some one down in the back in relative comfort and under cover. And both trucks are washed out every month as a minimum tyo prevent build up of nasties (mud, woodchip, rubbish bag effluent, etc).
  22. Matthew Arnold
    Snowing again in Blandford. Hopefully this lots will settle
  23. Matthew Arnold
    Snowing like a gooden in Blandford. Ands its settling on the roads.
  24. Matthew Arnold
    Been clear n cold all day. Just startin to see the first flakes falling outside.
  25. Matthew Arnold
    Sheep crap is better smelling than Chicken crap or Pig crap any day.

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