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  1. Matthew Arnold
    After todays showers i took another roadside walk and found another stump which was rather rotten. I don't think kretz was at play here as the wood was very soft. There were desicated FB but they were too small and too decomposed to see what they were.
  2. Matthew Arnold
    Nickelback has changed a bit from the days of "how you remind me". [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exlGc8eFXI0&feature=bf_prev&list=HL1333397441&lf=mh_lolz]Nickelback - This Means War - YouTube[/ame] Then again maybe not [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_wfoY56JGc&feature=bf_next&list=HL1333397441&lf=mh_lolz]Nickelback - Lullaby - YouTube[/ame]
  3. Matthew Arnold
    Started on the annual maintenance run today. Did a 2 mile long footpath this morning with the DR as the BCS Flail was dead. The before and after pictures are of a footpath we strimmed. It only took us an hour and 25 mins to strim about a mile of footpath.
  4. Matthew Arnold
    Some of todays shots. I don't think the sky could have been any more blue than it was today.
  5. Matthew Arnold
    Found this nice former twin stem Silver Birch.
  6. Matthew Arnold
    Some of todays shots. The light was just right for it.
  7. Matthew Arnold
    We carry ours in the middle of our van. We have a beacon which we can use to stop it sliding back and forth. we just use four straps to stop it sliding sideways.
  8. Matthew Arnold
    Robins are such posers:lol:
  9. Matthew Arnold
    A week tomorrow is when we are going out playing. So far i have for definate got our 110 and a friend of mines V8 Disco and Mendiplogs (jon). Max number of vehicles is 6. Let me know by Friday (6th April) if you can make it.
  10. Matthew Arnold
    I did wonder with the rot. Never seen it on Ash before.
  11. Matthew Arnold
    Had our in house tree team doing some roadside work on a site we manage. The majority of the trees were healthy but were leaning heavily towards the road and we had 2 fail in the January winds. Here is a pictures of an Ash stump. I don't think the black crust is Kretzschmaria deusta but may well be Hypoxylon multiforme. As you can see the rot was extensive in this tree and it showed no signs of decline. We knew some of the trees were goosed but we werent sure how goosed.
  12. Matthew Arnold
    Got an FS450 requiring a new exhaust gasket. I replaced the exhaust 6 months ago when a colleague managed to reverse onto it.No further damage just a very bent exhaust. I tightened it up as much as i could but still sounds like pit bike. Piston and bore are looking good though.
  13. Matthew Arnold
    We had a local bird reserve torched in the early hours. It isnt one of our sites but we help the RSPB with rush cutting and controlled burning. It is suspected to be arson. Not surprising as it was on fire in the early hours. Arsonists destroy nest sites at Weymouth nature reserve (From Dorset Echo)
  14. Matthew Arnold
    Coz Tremella aurantia is Golden Ear. And it looks more like a deformed jelly ear as opposed to mesenterica which looks like witches butter.
  15. Matthew Arnold
    Yup. They were circling above but they were courting at the same time.
  16. Matthew Arnold
    A growing sterile Ganoderma bracket on the base of an oak about a foot below two big I dryadeus brackets. Since last year it has doubled in size.
  17. Matthew Arnold
    Some pics of a site we manage between an industrial estate and a housing estate. It was going to be built on until one of the surveyors lifted up a piece of chipboard and found 20 Great Crested Newts. The site is managed for reptiles and amphibians as well as everything else. Here are the pics from last Friday. We had to relocate some tadpoles and frogspawn further down the ditch as they only had an inch of water to live in.
  18. Matthew Arnold
    Some of this evenings dog walking pictures. Rather happy with the way the Dog Violets and Ground Ivy picture came out.
  19. Matthew Arnold
    Not only do we fell trees but we also plant trees. We had a little competition to see who could dig their hole the quickest. I won but then found i had dug too deep.
  20. Matthew Arnold
    Common Lizard - Lacerta vivipara
  21. Matthew Arnold
    Some of my recent photo taking in the past week. I will have some corkers next week when i get my work camera out of the work truck.
  22. Matthew Arnold
    It sounds like someone letting off a firing cap and you can see vapour/smoke coming out of the air filter. Am i right in thinkg the fuel air mix is combusting under the pressure of being turned over and just causing it to blow out both through the exhaust and air filter?
  23. Matthew Arnold
    Got an MS341 which pops through the carb on warm starts. It pops but still fires. Hoping it isnt going to cause any damage to the seals inside in the carb.
  24. Matthew Arnold
    That looks very much like Honey Fungus at play. The sap is leaching out of the bark where the rhizomorphs have infected the cambium. Wont be long until its curtains. If it is reduced hard it could kill the tree and razor strop could get into cuts and rot it from the top.
  25. Matthew Arnold
    A terrace of newly thatched cottages went up on New years because of a lantern. There were several barn fires and atleast 5 "small" heath fire all caused by lanterns as the wire cage was at the seat of the blaze.

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