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  1. Matthew Arnold
    I've driven TD5 Defenders and Discovery's and in my opinion they are gutless at the low end of the rev meter. I struggled to tow an empty twin axle tipper trailer out of our yard last year. We normally use Defender but this one was a Discovery commercial and it was as gutless as the Defender. Just my opinion though. We now have a Mitsubshi L200 4Work and a Ford Ranger XLT 3l V6. As my boss was shocked at how much fuel the TD5 used up.
  2. Matthew Arnold
    Yep. We normally buy a pair every two years. We have to write our names in them as we have the same boot size which is a pain when there are 3 of us.
  3. Matthew Arnold
    Stihl. Very comfortable. Good ankle support, waterproof (if correctly maintained and to a point). And most importantly during the cold winter mornings Warm and Breathable
  4. Matthew Arnold
    I typed Hypholomas into the search engine and found out that they are Saprophytic and can become parasitic. Would the fungi been the demise of the tree or do you think we ivy banded it just a bit too late?
  5. Matthew Arnold
    Checked the Ringless and it doesnt look like that. the gills are a completely different colour. The tree failed this morning. Root plate and all. Bit of a pain as its disturbed a big Wasp nest that was about 3 metres away from the main stem. The boss is gonna have some of it for fire wood. The rest we are potentially gonna sell for turning timber.
  6. Matthew Arnold
    Attached to my trousers around a belt strap but in my back pocket with enough slack to get it to my mouth
  7. Matthew Arnold
    I found these lil fungi growing off the root system of a quad stemmed Wild Cherry. They look Honey Fungus (ish) but they don't have the ring under the stems. The tree was ivy banded last year to give it a better chance as the crown was looking very stressed. Unfortunately the tree didn't survive the winter and the base has started to split where the union of the four stems meet. I'm not sure if the fungi are the cause of it or if it is becuase the tree has lost its whippiness from being alive.
  8. Matthew Arnold
    We have a log processor on one of the local shooting estates i go to. It is both electronically and hydraulically powered and is mounted on the back of a large Case tractor. They can dial in the length they want cut, place the log on a V shaped feed shoot that weighs the timber. Then measures it then sends it for cutting. When the cut log drops it goes into another v shaped shoot with a high powered hydraulic ram that pushes it into a 4 way splitter. It then sends the split log up another belt into a grain trailer that is fixed in at an angle so the logs can be removed easily from the base. Its a very clever bit of kit but extremely noisy.
  9. Matthew Arnold
    Very young Dryad's Saddle(Polyporus squamosus) growing from Ash stump. Tree was felled due to large "sucker" limb growing from base and undermined root plate (Rabbits and old Badger Sett) and a 12 tier Dryad's Saddle growing from its rear. This picture was taken 2 years after the tree was felled to see how much the fungi had changed since the tree was felled. The First set of pictures are of the young fungi. The second set are of the fungi taken about 6 weeks later. The stump had pretty much split due to the size of the bodies.
  10. Matthew Arnold
    We got the same problem on our L200. It is bad in 3rd gear at 30 - 40 mph. And there is a slight hum at 60 in 5th but we had the prop shaft and ujs all replaced. All of the gearbox mounts were replaced as well.
  11. Matthew Arnold
    I found this fungi whilst out on one of my site visits. It was growing next to a small group of Hawthorns. The hawthorns are in generally poor shape but no sign of any fungi until this one. Any ideas if its parasitic?
  12. Matthew Arnold
    So far i have spotted atleast 50 on the 22 sites and long distance trails i manage. I had 2 weeks off after getting stung 47 times by the lil blighters. I don't mind em as long as they don't get angry. My boss wondered why i ran past him stripping down to my boxers and trying to find a watersource. I didn't care what it was or how manky it was i needed to get in it.
  13. Matthew Arnold
    This is our pair of work trucks that we use. If you want an itinerary of what both trucks have on them. Feel free to ask. P.S. The L200 has been upgraded "slightly"!
  14. Matthew Arnold
    It is rather amusing as whenever we do any tree work near houses on the Trailways we always get a nice steady supply of teas, coffees, various cakes and biscuits. We even had one member of the public buy us all fish and chips one day. As we were doin such a sterling job in felling some horrid trees that leant over his house. We were so chuffed with his custom we cut all of the logs to his desired length and stacked them in his woodstore for him.
  15. Matthew Arnold
    I passed mine years ago and i do the majority of the spraying on our sites. got several lances of varying lengths. the longest is 2.2 metre reach
  16. Matthew Arnold
    We have a Ford Ranger Supercab where i work. It is a cracking truck. The only problems i have with it are there is no low end engine power (so when you put in low range you have to rev the sodding thing to get it to move) and the suspension is a bit hard for both road and off road driving. With the suspension being a bit hard the axles don't articulate as much as our other vehicles which is a Mitsubishi L200.
  17. Matthew Arnold
    If there are any targets (buildings, public highway, etc) with in a 360 degree falling radius no matter if tree are in the way. Fell it. A tree of that girth could easily flatten its neighbouring trees and then flatten anything else. I am a Countryside Ranger with many urban sites with lots of targets so anything within falling radius of a target with a significant defect has to be removed ASAP.
  18. Matthew Arnold
    Another place that may take it is Bulbarrow Timber. They have a massive woodchip heap there and they used to take woodchip from a contractor we used until our contractors company fell through.
  19. Matthew Arnold
    Although not as big just as spectacular
  20. Matthew Arnold
    I just looked through the pictures of ground based fungi and found these little critters. Any ideas what they are? All of the groups were growing from rotten wood. I havent seen them growing there before. We did have a large rotten leaning Ash removed last year as it split along its length base to crown on a calm day.
  21. Matthew Arnold
    Not sure wot these are but still cracking pics taken on a Fujifilm JV100 12 Megapixel.
  22. Matthew Arnold
    Postia ptychogaster growing on Hazel stub. Or Ringless Honey Fungus growing on Multi-stem Ash stump.
  23. Matthew Arnold
    Looking through hundred of books looking for one fungi. now just type the name of the fungi and boom everything you want to know about the fungi comes up in meer seconds. the only trouble is you have to sift through the pages and pages of rubbish to get to the good stuff.
  24. Matthew Arnold
    I recon it will be resinaceum then as it wasnt there when i last checked them in june. It was there when i came back from holiday in late August. So it has grown a massive amount.
  25. Matthew Arnold
    Thank you. It was resprayed all over including the roof. With all the bits and the truck it only came to just over £7000 which aint bad for a P reg

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