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  1. Matthew Arnold
    Had a phonecall about a seriously overgrown footpath that was impassable. Most members of the public overegg the pudding so to speak so when we turned up with just a strimmer and realised we needed alot more my colleagues left me to strim a path down the middle as they shot back to town to get the hedgecutter and a pitchfork. It was cleared in an hour and a half from getting the phonecall.
  2. Matthew Arnold
    Have you had any strongish gusts (25mph +) in the past 24 hours? How high is crown above the other trees and is it exposed in comparison (i.e wind tunnel effect)? The double swelling may be just growth belts but it may the early signs of a brown rotter (chicken of the woods,etc) having a play IMO.
  3. Matthew Arnold
    Big old brute with a full healthy crown with the odd bit of deadwood and lots of body language at the base. Plenty of years left in the old girl yet. Does it have an active Badger sett around it?
  4. Matthew Arnold
    Got a BCS Flail ready and waiting in the workshop for a serious maintenance session. It needs stripping down and degreasing. We lent it out with it all working and it came back only able to go backwards and a horrid grinding sound when engaging the PTO for the flail deck. Also now have a sick HL100 hedgecutter. It runs fine on full throttle but as soon as it goes to idle it dies or is searching for idle as if it is starved of fuel. Got a fuel filter for a brushcutter so will do a swap and see if that is the problem.
  5. Matthew Arnold
    Got some nice shots of some Six spot Burnets feeding on a Greater Knapweed flower during a breif sunny spell between the showers.
  6. Matthew Arnold
    Sorted cheers Steve. Well earned pint at the APF!!
  7. Matthew Arnold
    Looks like Ganoderma australe but may be Ganoderma lipsense only way to find out is through a microscope. Got any pictures of the crown and base?
  8. Matthew Arnold
    Same problem here but not fazed by it just a couple of extra clicks to get rid of the box. Cant for the life of me remember my password ha ha
  9. Matthew Arnold
    Our latest addition to the clan. Bought locally at 12 weeks old yesterday. He is called Deisel and is a lil porker at 7kg. We saw the mum and dad yesterday and dad is about the same size as Floyd so things are looking promising. He has settled in a treat which is always a bonus.
  10. Matthew Arnold
    Cheers m8. On bottle number 4 at the mo. Working tomorrow so may need a breakfast baguette in the morning to clear my head
  11. Matthew Arnold
    Cheers Lee
  12. Matthew Arnold
    Cheers guys. Having fillet steak for tea tonight. Got a black and white springer to add to the group.
  13. Matthew Arnold
    Perenporia (spelling) fraxinea by the looks of it IMO. Difficult to judge by the pics but the shape is right for it.
  14. Matthew Arnold
    Got another little terror now called Deisel. Normally have Liver and White but now got a Black and white.
  15. Matthew Arnold
    Might be getting another one on Monday evening... Got 3 of them already. Would like to put it back upto four as we can alternate the two youngens during the week and leave the pup with the old boy n which ever one is left behind for the day.
  16. Matthew Arnold
    Its on a floodplain but on the higher point so the water doesn't hand around for long. We only put a scattering of mulch around the base not a bag full like we did on the original planting. The soil line is the same height as the pot mark. We shall be spraying a weak round up mix around the base to kill off the grass around it.
  17. Matthew Arnold
    There is a local event near me on the grounds of a Deer park with some very very nice old Oak trees. Its only a little event but you can get taken around the estate in a tractor and trailer or horse drawn trailer. Its on the 25th August. I went a few years ago and was impressed with what they had on offer there. Oak Fair
  18. Matthew Arnold
    Ha ha i won't be doin the killing. Our inhouse tree team may be reducing it by a third, maybe more if the rot is extending that far. Our cut off point for reducing is the lowest limb on the trunk. Tt would still survive with that bit but for the past 2 years it hasnt shed bark or grown new needles. May need to get the county arb officer, district TO and head of the tree team to probe this tree like its never been probed before.
  19. Matthew Arnold
    Hornets were in there two years ago but nothing in the cavity except beer cans n possibly needles after the entire towns junkie population camped there for 10 weeks and left the site in a right state.
  20. Matthew Arnold
    Potentially yes. The lean is towards a side stream off the river and the back of rivate gardens which are left wild at the river end.
  21. Matthew Arnold
    Just put one in as forgot to. You recon its savable or have it dropped in half?
  22. Matthew Arnold
    I have been watching this Scots pine for the past 5 years. In that 5 years the base has bulged out more and it has leant twice as much. There is an extensive cavity which had Hornets nesting in there two years ago. We may be taking the site on so we are making note of any trees with faults or defects. We have a tree we can cable brace it to but it may be a bit too late as the root plate looks like its trying to lift. There isn't any FBs around the base or up the trunk (yet) but there is signs of brown rot. Is it savable or turn it into a monolith?
  23. Matthew Arnold
    Some shots of fung i saw today. 1-3 - Inonotus hispidus on self veteranising Ash 4-11 - Gano on Crack Willow.
  24. Matthew Arnold
    When i did a load of ferreting on a local big (9000 acre) estate we did it in 3 hits. Ferreting and netting the first week, smoking and netting the second week. Third week we used a modified "Warren Destroyer". It still has the firing sensor but we use Propane and Oxyactelene mix. It has a slightly bigger bang than the standard warren blaster but does the job more effectively. The most we got targetting one warren (about 800 metres of hedgerows on either side) was near 400. We use the "Warren Detroyer" in the final week to collapse the tunnels when the least amount of rabbits are in there to keep suffering to a minimum. Any that get away can be let on its merry way to keep a fresh bloodline.
  25. Matthew Arnold
    Very nice m8. All ya need now is the Goodyear Wranglers on those rims and away you go. TDV8 by any chance?

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