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Matthew Arnold

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  1. Matthew Arnold
    Ha ha. I'm planning on having a BBQ a week saturday with some work colleagues. I hope i stays reasonably reasonable this weekend as want to sane down and repaint my picnic table before then as it hasnt been done all winter.
  2. Matthew Arnold
    Its been gorgeus all day sat on the tractor mowing about 8 miles of bridleway. Saw lots of equine students from the college i used to go to. Mostly sporting the tight jopper and equally tight top.
  3. Matthew Arnold
    Grumbling and flashing like a gooden at the moment to our south west (where weather is coming from). It dumped about 2 inches of rain in 30 mins before it started to rumble.
  4. Matthew Arnold
    Our little office. Its a 13th century leper chapel. It would have been twice the size if the builders didn't knock down half of it when they were building the houses around it. The floor is lower than the water table which is interesting when the river level rises and you can see the flag stone floor getting damp around the edges.
  5. Matthew Arnold
    Sounds like the bearings may be going. Which belts are wearing quickly?
  6. Matthew Arnold
    Find you could use a piece of tight strung string wedged into the bore. Make sure you have a length left out to retreive it. Centre punch (but not one with a point) and a hammer and give it a good wack. It is a left hand thread (same as brushcutter head).
  7. Matthew Arnold
    Nothing too exciting just a sunseeking limb failing when a pair of amorous pigeons were getting jiggy on the end of it. Hoping to leave the natural coronet for bugs, beasties n fungi. The tree is already hollow but has a very strong union where the two main stems branch off.
  8. Matthew Arnold
    I know i am jumping to conclusions but if you look at the epicormic up the trunk and the rot on the chain link side ofthe fence but i don't think it was an overly healthy tree depsite the healthy crown. BBC News - Boys hurt by falling tree at Wandsworth cricket ground
  9. Matthew Arnold
    Cool. I have some chicken on a Cherry plum and a Cherry. I am waiting for them to fail as they have a heavy lean and are on a SW facing edge of the wood.
  10. Matthew Arnold
    Got another couple of shots of the fung on the log. It was turning into a sticky slime when you touched it with your fingers. [insert inuendo here:lol:]
  11. Matthew Arnold
    Any pics of the stump or timber as it was felled?
  12. Matthew Arnold
    Dads 110 has developed a starter motor problem. It is just clicking as if the batery is flat but we have had a new battery put in and it is still doing it. We are thinking along the lines of a tired solenoid or a dodgy earth. We just put a new starter relay in as the old one was being very tempermental.
  13. Matthew Arnold
    Fung or slime mould? On an old pine stem.
  14. Matthew Arnold
    The massacred site still has life. Common Spotted and Green Winged Orchids are showing their heads:thumbup: but no sign of the Lesser Butterfly Orchid.. Can anyone tell what the last flower is?
  15. Matthew Arnold
    Cracks in the crown or at the base. We had a poplar fail last year down to squamosus and that was sheltered by the beeches. They are the the tallest trees around and get hit from all sides. The trees have has kretz for about 10 years so how they can still monitor is beyond me. I suggested Picus testing or Resistograph but apparantly they are too expensive. But whats more expensive a Picus test or law suit for several crushed cars or a 15th century pub across the road.
  16. Matthew Arnold
    The trees are still standing. One of them doesnt have fresh FB's but his neighbour does. They survived the Jan wind and the recent battering and according to the local TO they will be inspected every 6 months for any serious structural issues. As soon as the issues arrise then the tree(s) will be dealt with. As it is a district council site and we are county council we have to go through the TO who is all for monitoring trees despite the fact they are beyond knackered. Here are the latest FB's on the tree nearest the garage.
  17. Matthew Arnold
    Same set ofPolyporus squamosus just another 48 hours on. Sadly someone knocked the larger rack off and damaged the next set up.
  18. Matthew Arnold
    Oi slug. Get off my fung. I wanna see it grow.
  19. Matthew Arnold
    Two Kretz related failures caused by the recent winds. I only got a picture of the Sycamore stump as the rest of the tree was stretching through 4 gardens. It isnt our site (yet) but talking to one of the residents all they heard was this very loud bang and saw their shed and greenhouse flattened by this monster. The wind was actually blowing the opposite direction to which it fell.
  20. Matthew Arnold
    Shall be having a post storm walk about in there tomorrow. So be prepared for some big failure shots.
  21. Matthew Arnold
    In a local wood. It was the only casaulty in the entire wood. Will be checking one of our sites tomorrow for any more damage from last nights winds as haven't checked it yet. And also checking another wood.
  22. Matthew Arnold
    The Sycamore is completely hollow and was rotten well into the crown (according to the farm who cleared the tree from his field for us). There is about 4 inches of wood at the top and 2 inches at the base with nothing in the middle. We are in two minds about the remaining stem. Leave a pollard or fell.
  23. Matthew Arnold
    The new toy. Got lots of bits to go on it including a post hole borer, post thumper,back actor (back hoe) and a beast of a flail.
  24. Matthew Arnold
    A nice rack of Chicken and a panic fruiting Dryad's Saddle after the top of a sycamore let go last year.
  25. Matthew Arnold
    6 trees in one gust. 5 Cherries and a scrawny Ash and all on a main road into town. Could have dealt with it but don't have keys to the shipping container. So got hold of the tree team to deal with.

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