Matthew Arnold
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It looks like my bosses garden when he first moved in. We spent about a week with chainsaws and brushcutters clearing it out. He did have a big Eucalyptus in the far corner of the garden but was we were pulling brambles out of the crown. No exageration half of the tree came towards us at a rate of knots. No where to run as it filled his garden. That was a difficult one to explain to the family why i had what looked like whip marks down my back from the branches. the rest of the tree was swiftly felled as the base was moving a massive amount and the roots had breached a fairly major water main that the water board worked on the next day. Had as massive fire though and got beers at the end of the day so it wasnt all bad.
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I find that with Glyphosate (depending on humidity, wind, etc) it is rain fast with an hour or so when it is put on neat. When its sprayed on it take minutes to go rain fast.
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Yep Glyphosate is Round up. We use the strongest one Glyphosate 480. It would make the bog very messy.
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I use Glyphosate where i work and although you hear lots of bad press about it. It is only harmful to plants. The only way it can harm a person or animal is if they drink large quantities of it neat (or so ive heard). I use it both neat and in a mix and we use it neat on the stumps. What species of tree is it that you are cutting down?
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I took my camera out with me as i was taking the dogs for a run on one of the sites i manage. Pics 1 and 2 - 100% Vandal proof log benches made of two pieces of Cedar of Lebanon that was cut down in a local car park. Pics 3,4,5,6 - Ill Sycamores next to log benches. Pic 6 shows ill tree next to healthy one. Pic 7 and 8 - Parasol mushroom growing in a woodland fringe. Pic 9 - View from top of site looking up the valley with a private schol on the left side in the distance. Hope you like em.
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I shall try and get some pictures of it. Its a bit out of the way on one of the drive but there is a footpath that runs about 5 metres away from it.
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We have trees like that on a local shoot my dad and i go to. We even have one known as the lightning tree as it was struck 8 times during the day. It is surrounded by crops but we know for a fact the estate left a 10 metre circle around it as not to damage the root system as it was a 450 year old knarly old thing. When it was hit it was riddled with Beefsteak and Chicken of the Woods, yet it plugged on with no problems till the lightning strikes. It is now a roosting, breeding and brooding site for Lesser and Greater Horseshoe Bats!!. I shall try and get some pictures of it.
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Thats the trouble with tight forked trees. They look safe and solid but inside they are a ticking time bomb waiting to go off. I videod a massive Sycamore split out from about two thirds of the way up the tree slowly peel apart. Unfortunately the video is took big to send as an email to put up on here.
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The split one would be an interesting one to fell. Which side would you put your hinge. lol
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felling licence?
Matthew Arnold replied to armchairarborist's topic in Forestry and Woodland management
We have to apply for a felling license each year as we fell alot of trees on our sites. We got a big telling off from the local FC Officer a few years ago as someone had reported seeing large stacks of timber on an old railway line we were clearing. The landowner had a felling license but couldn't find it. So we now have a hard copy in the office and a photcopy in both trucks just incase the FC Officer comes round again. -
Pictures taken on a camera phone so i apologise for the naff quality. Twin stemmed Oak that has split top to tail and squeaks at the first sign of a breeze. It is in a local FC woodland close to me and we have been watching it slowly split from the top to the ground. It is right next to a well used bridleway that links two villages.
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To give you an idea of how much the site is used. We have approximately 800-1000 visits a day. Which we have equated to 2 dogs per person. So there is lots of dog urine going onto the trees. The urine appears to be only affecting the Sycamores. We felled one last year as it had come down with the dreaded Phytophthora. Which our tree officer had said may have been caused by the dog urine. We do have a contractor top the areas around the trees but it is only done when required. So the soil compaction isnt too severe.There is a deadwood monolith about 2 trees down with Kretzschmaria deusta but we would have seen it on the tree that is dying.
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Hama i have also noticed the "explosion" of Honey fungus this year. Trees last year that were perfectly healthy have had fruiting bodies along most of there root plates. Would it be the damp summers and warm autumns causing this? Also we have a Sycamore in an avenue of Sycamores and Norway Maples that has over the past few years leaved in early june and then shed its leaves in early october. No sign of fungi aroundthe base. No excessive soil compaction around the base either. But it is a regular dog weeing point. Would dog wee eventually kill the tree?
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If it is I. hispidus then we would send off for it too be recorded but our tree officer has saaid it is more likely to be Dryad's Saddle as we have a lot of it in the area and only 6 ash tree and 2 sycamore with hispidus. But does D. Saddle normally grow 40ft+ up?
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I shall need to get my SLR out and get a pic ASAP. Before it falls off. It way way up in the crown. I beilve it is hispidus. Hispidus does go black after the fruiting body has finished sporing?
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Sadly some of the local oiks from the nearby (other side of the road) school have trashed them which is a pain. Got lots more fruiting bodies though. Should Inonotus hispidus grow on Limes? And how big would the bracket be, before we need to worry about it? It wasn' t there last year but it may have been in there for a little while.
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Bugs, bees and beasties- Bio-diversity matters
Matthew Arnold replied to White Noise's topic in Ecology
Thats a common Toad my friend. Latin name Bufo bufo -
I would personally use a mewp. We used one to clear an ancient monument and grade 1 listed wall in Shaftesbury. It was good fun to watch it level out on the cobbles. Not so much fun when at the end ofthe day he decided to take me to its max reach of 80ft. I dont mind heights but when it starts to sway in the wind thats when i cross the line.
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Ok cheers guys. Glad to hear its not parasitic. From the access road it looks very much like Meripilus but on closer inspection its seperate bodies rather that one.
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It is bloody horrid stuff. Chalk and clay mix. The first sign of moisture and it sticks to everything. Hence the tree work help it dry out and we are having the ditches either side re dug and linked into the deeper lower ditches.
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ok. I think we are goin up to the site sometime this week to begin the winter work as the site is extremely boggy. We got a L200 with mud terrains stuck up there in April so it need to dry out a bit.
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Nice i shall measure and take pictures of our biggest stools and our most mature trees. On the sites i manage.
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Will do. Are you measuring the stool from a meter off the ground?
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Shall get some pictures of two 1000 year old Ash stool that is mentioned in the doomsday book. Havent got any as of yet.
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And being nicely crown lifted too. Might be a bit of gnaw damage around the trunk.
