Gary Prentice
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I wish I'd known that, I needed information about installing services below a tree root zone last year
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I don't think I've ever seen a reversion in Crimson king. And the habits atypical for a CK- not that you can see what's happened to the crown in the way of pruning. ive seen a couple of maples, driving past, similar to this which I took for autumn colour. But again I don't think that that photo is. any more photos?
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Psychic bloodsuckers that know when you're going to be passing before you do. Do they sit round a little table holding hands
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Is that from the Anne Summers bondage range?
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It is, a bit pricy but something you'd probably pick up to research something in ten years time. The missus asked last week why I needed more tree books (around 200 and counting), but I just keep finding ones that I 'need'.
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Definitely, I only commented because the original post had asked about ID books specifically Not an Id or disease book, but I read 'Trees' by Roland Ennos recently. A very good read for £15
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Yep, Bob Watson is a good tree book, I don't think it's much use for identifications I'll have a look for the Collins one, I don't have that. Sinclairs book is a goldmine though, with a CD Rom include just for references to other articles and papers. Buy a botanical/zoological dictionary with it, it's very in depth.
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Collins for identification, Collins tree guide by David More & Owen Johnson. <£20 Tree pests and diseases, an arborists field guide. And Fungi on trees- an arborists field guide. Both from the Arb assoc £15.95 each Or Diseases of trees and shrubs, second edition by Sinclair, Lyon and Johnson. @£70 really good book
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Have you any photos? And are you in the UK or elsewhere. regarding regrowth, you'll probably get some epicormic shoots, but these will be dissimilar to the original branches and will grow vertically, parallel with the stem.
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The furthest edge from the house may have subsided, the cracked edge appears to be raised by a couple of mm. so it looks like the slab has cracked in half and the distal half has tilted. I couldn't find any roots adjacent to the damage and wonder if this settlement. The properties on made ground, a former mill site. The garden was lawned before the slab was laid. geological maps are devensian tills over pennine coal measures
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I possibly would if I could find it again but until I do, I don't think the ANSI standards are available free of charge.
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Ordinary memberships less than three quid a week. For that you get access to all journal articles FOC, reduced fees for workshops and seminars, and entry to the arb show. All the Other downloadable risk assessments, method statements and business stuff is another bonus. I don't really understand why more people don't join. And the British standard (3998) is, I think £180. Is that really beyond the reach of businesses whose main occupation is arboriculture? PS. I'm not getting involved in the discussion about where the BS Offices are or the fact that the authors work for nothing, that's a different topic altogether
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http://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:indexfungorum.org:names:112728 http://www.first-nature.com/fungi/clathrus-archeri.php Saprobric - decomposes organic litter. Apparently edible in the 'egg stage'
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I'm pretty sure mine now loads faster, even the threads with lots of images, on the laptop. The i-phone doesn't seem any different than previously.
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I was trying to comment and explain some of the photos, but as I uploaded them altogether adding text was swopping the order around all the time. The size and age of some of the ganoderma is surprising. Second last photo, the largest was @600mm across
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We did some work here a few years ago and I've been wanting to get back for a while. I didn't find anything rare or unusual but because the woods are maintained in a fairly natural condition, there's lots of failed trees, VTA examples and lots of fungi on the beech monaliths dotted around. Not to sure on this juvenile FFB (on oak). On the same stump, below. Recent works here, with construction traffic, parking and site cabins seems to have affected the mature trees near the roadway.
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Not geotropism, or is it? The older bracket looks to have been broken away but the new growth appears to be trying to save it (it interested me anyway)
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Get him a log for this weekend in St Albans. Haven't you read the opening post?
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Should I have replied? I live in Manchester but used to work in Cambridge, so even then those companies are a bit far. Work it out. Discount all the forum members who can't help due to geography. Then discount everyone who hasn't been on in the last 24 hrs. If you're lucky there may be half a dozen people overall who could help and you're complaining that they haven't answered! have you asked the person who could help if they know anyone else local who could? or rung everyone in the St Albans phone book?
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It's all about moving or supporting mass. Imagine the u configuration the other way up and the apex is a pulley. A hundred kg mass is tied to one end, and the other end is used to lift the mass. Each leg leg is supporting/taking 100 kg , but the load at the pulley is 200 kg.
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You're a bad man Bob
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To knock the wedges in?
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Ya gonna push it over?
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Similar to Spaeths, A. x spaethii, a hybrid of Caucasian and Japanese, Collins states the leaf size as 15x6
