tree-fancier123

is this discussion about gaffing out and sliding down the stem?

three 12" specimens here for £15, can't grumble at £5 a go, that's if they are not duff. Wonder if they were seed grown or from cuttings. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/3-Araucara-Arucana-Monkey-Puzzle-Tree-12-3-plants/222837303530?hash=item33e22368ea:g:mfIAAOSwknJXxXNX looking at some of the ones on ebay its gonna take forever to get something worth looking at from cuttings - even these 4 year old ones are small.https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/2-Monkey-Puzzle-Trees-Araucaria-araucana-2L-Pot-4-Years-Old-Perfect-Gift/182182337814?hash=item2a6ae9dd16:g:CtUAAOSwYVlaH9M6 Hope your customers arent in their 80s

another one thought to be 800 to 1000 years old 'Queen Elizabeth Oak'. By pam fray, CC BY-SA 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=13672536

Why dont people keep to posting these sort of threads in the lounge? An interesting topic, but not directly related to tree work.

Agree - even if she does work for the vampire squid her ideas make perfect sense to me. Good on her. As for Sam Harris all he seems to say is 'follow me I know the way' - like a pseudoscience Jesus. I'm an Athiest too, but I wouldn't give Sam Harris the skin off a bucket of cold piss.

Yes, guns killing everyone - Someone said after the last school masacre about arming the teachers so they can return fire, if a teacher heard shots down the hall they may have time to take aim at the doorway to their classroom. also the Times has 'Ready meals and cereals linked with rise in cancer'. A million ways to die.

our taxes will help feed them so they can come over here and take our land too. I did vote leave but was reminded the other day weve had peace for 70 years. Wonder how long before the next war? Hopefully not yet, worst thing i can imagine getting a conscription letter land on the doormat

So if someone came up with a fungus killing medication for sick trees it wouldn't be worth it, better not to interfere with natural selection. Bring on the genetically modified triffid trees

I didn't think I was - just seems to me certain dippy hippy types think tree biology and fungi is all 'circle of life' organisms co-existing in the ecosystem for mutual benefit, symbiotic rather than pathogenic fungi? possibly, but beyond a certain extent - 70% cited below in an abstract from Biological Letters, the hollowing definitely leads to failure. 'A survey of previous research of the effects of trunk hollowing on the structural failure of trees found strong agreement across studies, involving a broad range of different species and broad range of tree sizes, that there was a critical amount of hollowing above which structural failure was considerably more likely [13]. This critical point occurs when the radius of the inner hollow region is approximately 70% of the total radius of the trunk. Hollowness less than this critical amount involves very little cost in reduced structural stability. This 70% critical value is broadly used in the management of trees, and in particular is a very widely used criterion for the removal of trees considered to be structurally at risk [14], although its theoretical basis is an area of still-active discussion [15].' the author hypothesizes that trees dont expend energy fighting heartwood decay because the energy is better spent growing and reproducing - you seemed to suggest that in some way these hollowing fungi were doing the trees a favour http://rsbl.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/10/11/20140555

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.