Matthew Arnold
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We had one do that in one of the wood we manage. Wot terrified us was our county council tree offficer said to monitor despite it being over a busy bridleway. 2 days later a member of the public reported a tree that had fallen across the track. The branches of the other trees were still settling on the ground when we arrived
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On the subject of strange fungi that i havent been able to ID. Any idea what these are? The first three pictures are taken from a roadside Oak. It has an infestation of Honey Fungus on the other side as well. The two last photos are taken of a wierd looking fungi growing on a Hazel stub that was cut about 3 years ago.
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Weve got loads of deadwood habitats on site. We have atleast 30 monoliths (both natural and man cut) on that site alone and several other sites have monoliths and deadwood habitats of various forms. The majority of deadwood is left to rot and fall naturally unless it is especially tall and withing fallin distance of a "major" target (House, electric/phone lines, roads, car park, footpaths, etc,etc). If Health and Safety wasn't involved we would leave any defective tree and see what happens. But we have to react appropriately to any defective tree.
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It was a tri stem but two of the stems were pulled over when the felled the Ash so they went for firewood.
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Cheers Hamadryad. We were all stumps as to what it is but now we will be leaving the tree well alone to die naturally. It is so soft it isnt even usable as fire wood!!
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A few years ago we felled a large mature Ash that was riddled with Perenniporia fraxinea and Dryad Saddle. Soon after that tree was felled we noticed a small hawthorn that was looking very sick in comparison to the rest of the small trees around that area. We notcied there was a strange carpet type fungi that covered most of the tree. The woodpeckers and tree creepers were loving it as the wood was just like butter. We have decided to leave it to fall and die naturally as there is no official footpaths within its falling radius. I have attached picture and hopefully someone can give me an idea of what it is. As all of my colleagues (one of which has an ND in Arboriculture) are completely stumped as its not in any of our ID books.
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I am hoping these images will behave themselves and stay the way i want them to. The trees with the splits will be coming out this winter due to their proximity to footpaths, roads, car parks, etc. I have put some photos of a fungi that looks very similar to Honey Fungus but there is no veil/ring under the gills. It was growing on the roots of a severely ivy clad cherry.
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I apolgise for my foul language and my poor image flipping. my computer says it has been flipped but obviousily hasn't.
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Willow stem fracture whilst looking at the tree. .
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Pic 1- Field Maple Path side Pic 2- Field Maple road side Pic 3 - Oak branch Pic 4 - Oak branch split close up Pic 5 - Cherry limb with Chicken of the Woods
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I took lots of pictures of fungi whilst walking my three spaniels. all of the pictures were taken on two of the 20 sites i manage. You'll recognise alot of them but there are a few i dont recognise. If you could ID them that would be of great help.
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Such a little bird with a massive song. They are very loud for their size. But Goldcrests sound like a bloody mouse peeping away in the trees.
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Goldcrests are the smallest my man. only by a centimetre or so. But either way they are amazing little birds. Ive seen all three of the UK's smallest Garden bird sat next to eachother in hieght order which was rather amusing. The wren was bigger than all of them even though it is given as Britains smallest garden bird.
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Nice pair of Goldcrests. The male is the top one strutting his crest to the female which by the looks of things isn't interested lol. But it is definately a Goat Willow Salix caprea. We have loads of them on our flood plain sites. The EA are forever cutting the sodding things and chewing up our beautiful wet meadow hay crop.
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that would be the easiest thing to do. We have a nice roman camp to clear. It is full of sitka and norway spruce trees which we will fell and put into suitable lengths for fence posts,etc. We also have a major bit of tidying to do on some very old ash and beech. One of the beech is riddled with Ganoderma and Inonotus hispsidus which is strange as i thought hispidus only grew on beech. The ash is gonna be a "natural" pollard. The tree split out a few years ago and the lower stems have died off.Hence the "natural" pollard. Hopefully we can get away with the boss climbing onto the remaining stub and cutting the limbs off.
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Thats a right ball ache especially with the bloody chicken wire. Is it embedded into the wood or just on the surface? I hate chicken wire although its generally not very thick there is just loads of it which blunts the saw on each tree
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Depending on wot the ancient monument is. It might be worth just ripping the trees out. out cutting the trees high then pulling the stumps.
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Very nice tyres on that. They are the new generation of mud terrain from BFGoodrich. They are called KM2. The originals are just KM. We now run KM2 on our pick ups and we have never got stuck........ touch wood!!
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I hate it when people put chicken wire or any sort of wire around trees. We felled a tree about 2 weeks ago and the member of the public had put high-tensile wire around it to "protect" it. Unfortnuately the wire had allowed fungi to get in and it had to be felled. We got some very expensive chains for our saws. They had carbide teeth so if you hit stones, wire, etc it would stay sharper for longer.
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bloody hell. It would be easier to have a big pto chipper on the back of the mog with a tractor n grain trailer lol. maybe have another tractor dragging the stuff to the chipper for someone to feed in. we did that on Castle Hill. The trouble was we had about 3 weeks of solid heavy rain and the bottom gateways get a bit boggy around the pond.
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The first thing that came up on Castle Hill once it was cleared of trees was nettles. Its taken about 2 years of continuous mowing to get it to almost all grass
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Yep. We are planning on having the pond cleared of the vegetation and we plan on clearing the brambles near the steps as we get some decent wild flowers there. And with any luck we will take a few more sycamores out on the slope to open the view even more off the top. We will be leaving the two massive ones on the hillside unless the rootplates start to give way in this rain.
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ye. ideally after you clear the monument you wait until late spring - early summer to go around and cut and treat thr stumps. We normally use neat round up to treat them. It has a 98% success rate but then give it a few years it would be worth using a forestry mulcher to get rid of the stumps n various bits. But obviousily being careful of the terrain. We cant do that on any of our monuments as they are all on steep slopes.
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we could leave the green as mulch but any of the wood arising from the winter clearance we burnt on site. On all of the ancient monuments we manage we have authority to burn in a specific area which is pretty hand. We have already got them booked in for this winters work plan. We will be borrowing some colleagues chipper for about 8 weeks. during the winter. Its mainly to catch up on what we missed last year as one of my colleagues broke his leg felling a tree.
