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Ah ok i stand corrected, again, a fungus like organism. Interesting - the wikipedia entry mentions some oomycete being used in biocontrol of plant pathogenic fungi

Gano and all the other fungal nasties. The tree equivalents of small pox and bubonic plague. Apparently it was a fungus that caused the potato famine. I cant see much symbiosis going on. Arborists have often experimented with fungicides. Why would anyone want to take antibiotics? Just let nature run its course. Beneficial and harmful bacteria in the body. Beneficial and harmful fungi on trees. Its not all good

that particular machine has been on there a while, i suppose the plant dealers get stuff offered them direct and also travel to Bightwells etc picking up stuff in the auctions to 'prepare' for resale so any hopper paint experts - does photo 4 look like 250 hours worth? I'm guessing that is more wear than to be expected after 250hrs - looks about the same as this Jensen with a claimed 759hrs https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/JENSEN-A550-DI-WHEELED-WOOD-CHIPPER-GREAT-CONDITION-LOW-HOURS-NO-VAT/222816491098?epid=17008528737&hash=item33e0e5d65a:g:iaMAAOSwnTdZ-yfI some very strange goings on in the used chipper sales - exactly the same model as the OP linked this one with only 87 hrs and similar price and more hopper paint of course https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Jensen-540-turntable-woodchipper/273058342336?hash=item3f938ba5c0:g:JPsAAOSwCMtaUjz-

thanks for reply - and I can see your point with honey fungus, but I was asking about having fruiting bodies of say ganoderma on a population of trees, a fungus not known to move from tree to tree underground (that I am aware of), so any trees with recent wounds within a few miles can only be infected by airborne spores - so if theoretically the volume of gano fruiting bodies is reduced in say a 10 mile radius then the incidence of new infections would decrease?. I accept removing the brackets from already infected trees may actually speed up decay for the reason you stated.

Increasing biodiversity sounds like a noble persuit - but I was wondering if every human being in the world was ordered to spend all their spare time walking around parks and woodlands and removing any fungal brackets found on both standing trees and deadwood, would this make it theoretically possible to wipe out ganoderma and all the other specimen tree killing nasties? Like hunting them to extinction, as they can only release spores from the fruiting bodies? Of course this wouldnt be achievable in practise coz peeps would want to do other stuff instead, just wondered if it would be theortically possible to make fungi extinct - maybe doing so would cause the biosphere to collapse. At least the big trees wouldnt get eaten alive. I only ask as encouraging dead wood seems to be helping the tree killing fungi.

is typing your other hobby?

I think they have been quite reasonable in asking if anyone local to them wants the job for less money than the quote - pity no ones offered. I work for a farmer and before I had my tickets and gear just doing hedges and lawns remember well them shopping around when they had to have trees removed high £3k , lowest £1k. I thought there would have been helpful posts from people local to him.

have to agree - if someone in this day and age thinks god made man and the Earth their other ideas are probably a bit backward too

looks like you mean business with those big chippers have you ever used a log splitter on the sections and/or rings so you can chip oversize bits of poplar, lawson etc?

yes - Labour always seem to think the national debt doesn't matter, they want to enjoy being the benevolent ones

https://youtu.be/Ad4zMZHwjRk PCB effort

as evidenced by this graph - Mogatron obviously likes his genitalia sensations, but its mostly foreigners overdoing things

if time is not important janey could send you some seeds off his one

Scary stuff indeed. You may have seen the latest Mad Max, not that far fetched - a warlord controls the only water for miles. Wee outside to save flushing the bog. Just dont get caught by the homeowner

https://www.barcham.co.uk/

If the bosses couldnt get away with brushing off a few crumbs for the thickos they wouldnt bother doing it. The whole point of being a boss is to make absolutely sure you get so much more than everyone else.

More gaps than anything else. So havent done enough homework, sorrybud pic poor, was embarassed not knowing this tree, customer said good autumn colour. ?

nice job, looks as good as it gets to me, and worth it for the customer, none of this 1.5m nonsense, may as well pay someone to go up there and dust it

I'd unbrick the front wall of my lounge put up an rsj and some acros, then buy 10 ton of copper on the London Metals Exchange and get it delivered on wheels so I could stuff it in my lounge and brick the wall back up. Some years later there would be a price spike and I would send it back to the LME.

my initial thoughts are would it clamp tighter if you used Duck tape around the carbon fiber shank a couple of times before clamping it? I guess worst case is the Duck tape adhesive could degrade the resin, but I doubt it, anyway spikes are dear but not ppe, so even drilling is not the end of the world. Different diameter bolts have different torques before the thread strips, maybe even a 2 mm stainless bolt M2 off ebay would be enough to stop it sliding up, in addition to the clamp and perhaps Duck tape too, belt and braces. I guess with the Duck tape there is a limit to how tight you can clamp it without crushing the carbon fibre, but from what I've seen of carbon fibre it can take some considerable forces On seconds thoughts - no I don't think its best to use the smallest diameter bolt if you do decide to drill it off - if the clamp slips with it bolted all your weight will be on a very small diameter so increased pressure on the carbon fibre - a bolt similar size to the spike ones better, personally I would try the Duck tape first Interesting about the kiwiclimber spike sender, didn't imagine it would pop out, was on my wishlist, looks like the Arbpro is a better option

I enquired about a ro ro a few years back for a line of conifers, it was a skip firm with their own waste transfer site, if i only put wood and chip in hed do a bulk green waste at 10 a ton, plus 120 for haulage for each trip it needed emptying. I thought £ 10 a ton cheap even with the haulage, lower cost overall on a big clearance. The Biffa Amey commercial local one is 4.4p kilo Amey or about 55 a ton Biffa, green waste only, also no stems over 8 inches.

If a big leylandi hedge is removed i can see the wood being acceptable for biomass chip, what about the foliage greenery conifer chip, how is that processed and moved on in quantity?

Yes the tuckpoint guard and m class extractor i have done without, however im asthmatic, and dust extraction really helps my breathing. The extractor will fit my other Festool stuff circ saw, planer, sanders, bit of Festool fanboy, really industrial top notch gear, rebuilt some wooden garage doors, tracksaw helped enormously, with extraction power tools you can also potter about indoors too without making a mess, fitted a new kitchen door for a lady. i had a small extractor but the new one is m class dust, self clean filters, can do wood and masonry. I dont have money to burn, just like having good quality gear, saves a third being lopped on tax. Just got a nice mobile welding set to patch up my tipper. The thing i want that i cant afford is some land and a unit, must stop splurging on tools i dont need

A good glug has always done for me. Cool, no need to be too anal about it, I suppose

so if there is only one groundy and a tagline is needed to pull stuff clear of a roof for example, snatching the piece using a stub, or even having a small portawrap sent up could be worth it. There must be hardware maybe from rescue gear like the Petzl ID that could be attached on a sling inboard of the cut to allow fishing pole style dismantling of large branches - some gadget that can withstand the drop force on the rope when locked, then lets the climber control the descent with a lever? The ID looks like it would wreck the rope, but the ISC D4 looks more like something that could be used as top friction in self lowering http://www.iscwales.com/Products/Descenders/RP880-D4-Work-Rescue-Descender/16614/