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it seems to me the main thing with rustic furniture and garden tree trunk derived features is finding a buyer. I've seen stands for outdoor pot plants made with three or four trunk discs arranged around a pole like steps on a spiral staircase 200 quid wtf. those upmarket out of town garden/home stores with a coffee shop seem to get people to part with a lot of money for not a lot of wood I worked with a gardener of 71 last year, he'd kept one last customer, nice 2 acre plot, couldn't top the hedges himself anymore. He's bought himself a lovely big bungalow, probably £450k worth and told me he bought out his daughters house for her when she divorced. Apart from the money I expect the exercise does him good. Why not do tree cutting 2 days a week and potter about arts and crafts for the rest?
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ivy in a deciduous hedge, or a mixed hedge is a nuisance, the evergreen part of a mixed hedge can cope, but the deciduous part gets shaded out by ivy, made worse by any top growth from the hawthorns etc getting removed with a hedgetrimmer. Quite a few ivy hedges about now that were once something decent. Leaving the ivy on that ash tree is like seeing an elderly person being mugged in the street and crossing to the other side to avoid getting involved - the tree is being mugged of daylight. Just don't cut into the trunk
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If someone invented a systemic fungicide and a cost effective way of getting into the xylem, and it was found to be effectively disributed around the tree killing the pathogen and halting the spread of decay,you could argue it wouldnt be ethical to use this new fungicide to save a nice tree, because pathogenic fungi evolved simultaneously with trees. One could argue saving a tree from a pathogen, if it were made possible would be wrong, as its only natural for trees to suffer pests and diseases, any intervention would upset other oranisms that thrive on wood decay. The best thing for ecosystems is if man doesnt even get near enough to photograph them?
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I have read a good few tree books myself, maybe not the all incunabula you've had access to, but the core texts. I wouldn't say it is ignorance to think ivy kills trees - the increased drag leading to windthrow and the smothering of buds leading to leggy growth only right at the tips. Ivy isn't doing a tree any favours, it's only hindering its growth and survival. The habitat ivy provides is another matter entirely. I can't believe an educated person can't see that on deciduous trees that have evolved to be bare in winter during the strongest winds the increased drag caused by an ivy infestation will increase the chance of windthrow
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do you think its chemically impossible for ecoplugs to poison the host tree when drilled into 'veteran' ivy? The phenomenon of glyphosate 'flashback' is more usual between two trees of the same species that have root connections, so stump killing a syc on the boundary could kill the one next door etc, but could the herbicide be translocated to the ivy roots and transported accross the ivy root cell walls directly into the tree roots? I wouldnt want to risk the chance on a champion tree like that.
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Of course education is beneficial - sometimes though it seems people get so immersed in the literature they begin to see people doing practical work as idiots who need educating 'follow me I know the way'
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that isn't fair - you're just looking down on people now and all because you've given up manual labour and spent some time reading books. Anyone who mows their lawn regularly could be considered a destroyer of worlds.
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tree-fancier123 replied to Mick Dempsey's topic in The Lounge
No strings attached = bring a testing kit -
was doing ivy today on an oak, shaving it gently with my 160T battery saw. If you go around the whole trunk cicumference gently shaving the thick stems until they pop at the back. Looks more fiddly with butress roots maybe cut off a ladder at 6 foot all round. Seems to take 6 months to die off after cutting. Worth climbing to clean the crown at that time imo.
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I can remember what the country side looked like before Elm diseases !
tree-fancier123 replied to Mark2's topic in The Lounge
When we get an infection we can sometimes be helped by drugs from the doctor. Whats needed is more medicines for trees and less drugs for tree workers. -
still having a last gasp up top, maybe a lightning strike?
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Agreed. A troll is cheaper than a pet (unless you cost the time involved). If a troll gets really sick there's no vets bills - just leave it in the corner to fester
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well played - the buds are just like the drawing of Nothofagus alpina in a great new book for winter ID - was recommended by Gary Prentice on here
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As Khriss said above - the ivy isn't doing them any favours
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It is like a pub in here - the one from American Warewolf in London 'Keep to the path. Beware the moon'
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So what is required is a photocopy of his birth certificate authenticated by his solicitor
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sorry to hear this - my mums friend lost her son because of it. I can see why people would have no desire to find out - lots of people die mountaineering, but that is at least glamourous
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It seems people are of the opinion that you can't just try heroin to see what it's like - a few times getting high and you have to have it all the time. Some people like a nice glass of Chateaux Neuf du crap occaisionally , others need several litres per day
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er yeah I was just about to try to remedy that after posting, remembering your ongoing battle with multiple myeloma - what I meant was I am genuinely curious as to the experience. I agree its worth staying in good shape to fight cancer, as these days the medicine can work wonders. A customer of mine looked at deaths door with a huge lump on his shoulder from leukemia, but is now completely clear. Of course its worth fighting
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I don't - I mean I've often wondered what it can do, but never tried it. Must be nice. I'll wait till I get cancer, then have a play with madness
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alleviating, although elevating may have been the unintended result
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I was bored and lonely so I took to my computer to write a load more crap , that's all
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good point - as you said earlier the trees need 2 year or older wood to fruit on.
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so you seem to be saying the cash on the street she gets given is all being spent on injections - the gifts from passers by are making her worse. If she had no cash she couldn't buy drugs, but could at least still go to food banks. Top tip for new year - never ever give cash to homeless - only hot drinks and tinned food and corrugated iron and second hand sleeping bags - dont give them brand new sleeping bags or theyll sell them for cash to buy drugs. Best thing would be cart them off the street into a special facility where they perform neurosurgery to remove the part of the brain that creates pleasure from opiates
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be good to read some of your exploits working in the big trees too , and like others have said any photos of exciting stuff. Although I understand proper tree men aren't preoccupied with photos and videos - they do the exciting stuff because they enjoy it, not to show off
