Matthew Arnold
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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Does this look like Ringless Honey Fungus?
Matthew Arnold replied to Matthew Arnold's topic in Picture Forum
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? -
Does this look like Ringless Honey Fungus?
Matthew Arnold replied to Matthew Arnold's topic in Picture Forum
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. -
Attached to my trousers around a belt strap but in my back pocket with enough slack to get it to my mouth
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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.
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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.
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Fungi photo competition- win hamas camera!
Matthew Arnold replied to Tony Croft aka hamadryad's topic in Fungi Pictures
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. -
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.
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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?
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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.
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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"!
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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.
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PA1 & PA6 Pesticides advice please
Matthew Arnold replied to blue beastie's topic in Training & education
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 -
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.
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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.
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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.
