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  1. Matthew Arnold
    Blowing a hooley at the moment. About 30 mph most of the time and occasional 50-60 mph gust. Had a 71 mph gust at about 4.
  2. Matthew Arnold
    Yup. Bloody stuff is a pain in the summer and winter. Will be going out in an hour or two to check our main site about 300 metres away from me. But will be checking a local wood with some full leaf, Kretz infested splittting Beech and lots of Armilaria damaged sycamore in full leaf too.
  3. Matthew Arnold
    A small hawthorn which failed up a railway embankment. It was still creaking and cracking when i was taking pics.
  4. Matthew Arnold
    The first casaulty. A good sized lump of deadwood. Wind was only blowing to about 20 mph but it was enough to snap this lump out still with twigs on the end.
  5. Matthew Arnold
    Here are the shots of the more interesting Limes in the avenue. 1-7 - Next a main road. No salt from road as on 3 ft bank. 8-11 - Next tree up. Nice open union. 12-14 - Not much room to grow but still healthy. 15-17 - Large co-dominant stem branching out but adapting well. 18-24 - A well fluted tree with another nice open union and very healthy crown. 25-32 - Damage to butresses on south west side of tree. Also has damage caused by bin wagon/lorry to large leading stem. 33-40 - Very little growing room and a far reaching limb with adaptive growth to counter act large sail at the top. 41-46 - Smooth bark with lots of crack but no lesions. Suspect Armillaria at play due to smooth bark and slight sink. Food for thought with all those pics.
  6. Matthew Arnold
    Ha ha. Day off tomorrow due to the rain so when there is a break i shall be checking one of the local woods as it has alot of heavily kretz covered Beech in full leaf. Very exposed spot in a south west facing valley.
  7. Matthew Arnold
    May have some fallen tree and branch pictures with the winds we have coming in the next 24-48 hours. 50-60 mph doesn't sound much in the winter but it gets the old ears perked up in summer.
  8. Matthew Arnold
    Yes. Best people to talk to would be your local county council rights of way dept.
  9. Matthew Arnold
    It would be visible from most of the hills on the wilts/hants/somerset and devon borders with dorset. Only on special occasions. It may be lit again in 2 years but will wait and see. That thought did cross his mind when he climbed into it. [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=73w5I5cSzJ8&list=HL1338918391&feature=mh_lolz]Okeford Hill Beacon lighting - YouTube[/ame]
  10. Matthew Arnold
    Here is the beacon we lit almost going at full speed. Nice that it is the first picture of the dorset celebrations. BBC News - In pictures: Diamond Jubilee celebrations in Dorset
  11. Matthew Arnold
    Not sure but the trees in the avenue are between 150-250 years old and all different shapes and sizes. No kretz in any of them.... yet but the ones nearer the main road have fairly substantial epicormic at the bases. There is an acess road to a small car park which would explain the butressing on the other side of the tree. There is alot of fresh orange bark on show this year and in some case the butresses look like they are splitting internally to give two for the price of one. I shall get pictures of the entire avenue this afternoon when i am out with the dogs. One of the trees has a fair bit of butress damage thanks to a local boyracer driving over them last year but it seams to be callousing nicely.
  12. Matthew Arnold
    We've got the same clunk in the 110. All the UJs have been changed as they were well worn but more so on the front. We topped up the diff oil as both were low. Whilst we had it jacked up to identify a loud clunk when off roading (trailing arm hitting steering guard) we rotated the offside front tyre and had about 2 inches of play before the prop turned. We have a judder at about 40-50 in 4th and 5th and a slight groan from the front on full lock left and right.
  13. Matthew Arnold
    Some nice fluting on a roadside Broad-leafed Lime. Nice healthy crown with no tight unions. No hint of agressive fungi anywhere at the base just the odd bit of Coprinus sp in the butresses but nothing major.
  14. Matthew Arnold
    The same Dryads 24 and 48 hours on. Got some nice droplets underneath. The last shots are of another saddle this time on an Elder.
  15. Matthew Arnold
    We were tasked with lighting the local beacon last night. We were anticipating 400 people at the most. We ended up with over 2000. The district council had done the risk assessment and had massively underestimated the resources that would be needed. We fenced off an area for about 250 cars but that was filled by 8.30 so had to use the overflow and overflow of the overflow car parks which hadnt been mown so the grass was about 2 feet high and very thick. Still was a good evening. We did wonder at one point if the beacon was going to ignite or not but luckily the wind fanned it enough to get it going really nicely. Will be a video later on.
  16. Matthew Arnold
    At this time of year you would have to be very very careful of nesting birds. Blackbirds, Wrens and Thrushes love bramble as they can get in but not many predators can.
  17. Matthew Arnold
    On the plus side we planted a tree this afternoon to replace one which will eventually die in a few hundred years.
  18. Matthew Arnold
    Had a bad start to the day when i had one of my friends knock on the door and tell me about our flagship site. There were some young teens having a massive party to break up for the week half term n left us a lovely mess to clear up. A very nice member of the public helped with the clear up first thing and cleared up 3 bin sacks full of bottles, cans and 3 bbq's. This is what i pulled out of the haycrop. I think when the kiddies go back we shall be paying the school a visit with various pictures of vandalism and litter on the site.
  19. Matthew Arnold
    The Dryad's are fruiting. Sycamore and Elm are hosts. Also some Field Mushrooms.
  20. Matthew Arnold
    Happy birthday you old funger. Have a cracking day.
  21. Matthew Arnold
    Got any Spindle down your way?
  22. Matthew Arnold
    They should be fine for next year providing they are kept in a cool, dry place. The only thing we put on the bank was yellow rattle. All the wilflowers were in the seed bank in the soil
  23. Matthew Arnold
    In first time:001_tt2:
  24. Matthew Arnold
    Todays job. Replace a retaining fence and make it higher than the original.
  25. Matthew Arnold
    The bank has only taken 3 years to establish. We took wildflower seed from the Ox eye daisy bank and just scattered it after we scalp strimmed it. We found that the best time to sew Yellow Rattle is just before a frost but not to do it in the depths of winter. You need to scalp the area you want to cover and get soil showing between the roots and do it in 1m2 patches.

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