Gary Prentice

I'm not suggesting that that you take your bat and ball home, I just can't really get my head around you. I'll admit I may be aiming at being a purist but sober?

Jomoco, sometimes, IMO, you post some really informative answers, sometimes I think you just post to troll and sometimes I think you must be drunk or on drugs:biggrin: Hopefully, one day we'll meet and I'll finally be able to work you out:lol:

Nope, I'm a newbie- since around about 1985:biggrin: Loads to learn yet

Damn I said I was done with this thread. I'd look to the works, over twenty or more years, that were published on the lapsed beech pollards at, I think, Burnham beeches. Is it a justifiable arguement, or just smoke and mirrors, to say that (true) pollards are longer lived or bringing lapsed (original) pollards back into management is all the same thing as topping? Pollards are created, as a planned form of management intended for the the life of the tree for a particular purpose, begun when the tree is just taller than the height that the pollard heads are wanted. It's quite clear and included in BS3998. Edit. Dealing with a lapsed pollard. Consider species, location, vitality and the trees regenerative abilities as a species. Then, prune back to beyond the boll/pollard head, considering stem diameter in the relation ship to the retained stem length. Can (some) topped trees become pollarded trees- yes IMO but should they really be or should it be more the case that the right tree for the right place would be the better move?

Paul said, and I hope he will correct me if I'm wrong, that new AAACs were reporting that the costs involved in creating and maintaining accreditation were enough to mean that they could no longer be competitive in the cheapest, lowest end of the domestic market. I took that to mean things like easy hedgecutting maintenance, smaller pruning and felling jobs, bread and butter stuff that you use to fill an odd hour.

Anyway whose interested in the benifits and disbenifits of becoming an AAAC only has to give techie Paul a call - he don't bite! Any can attend the free workshops about the scheme, without obligation, to get up to speed on the scheme. But if you're a small company, doing smaller domestic jobs, you'd better be prepared to up your game, because he'll tell you that you'll price yourself out of that market. The workshops are really informative, worth going to even just to see if the schemes for you

There's some days that I really want to run over my phone!

That's a lot of (cheap) talking.

Having lived and worked near Hebden Bridge, West Yorks - the Yorkshire Hippy Capitol of the 60's and 70's, I'm confident in saying 'none of them!' But they always wanted the firewood:lol::lol:

I'll do what I can, it's bugging me now. I'm glad you're not convinced, I'm not either, but to question your (and Kveld's) idents feels like answering (mycological) God back:lol: Anyway, the sites near Wolsley Woods/Old Warke Dam, a site with loads of old beech and lots of Gano's, so a morning out is in order. Every time I drive around the M60 I wish I could spare an hour for a wander but I'm always at work.

So you're both saying that Picture 1, of post 4, is Laetiporus sulphureus? Sorry, I should have labelled everything to avoid confusion. I would be really surprised if it is that. I know it'll lose colour with age and the photo may not show it, but it's bone white, under the algae covering. It's really resupinate and crust like, with no indication that it ever grew as a bracket. I couldn't lift it away from the tree to see beneath at all. I have been looking at Lati onthis site Laetiporus sulphureus, Chicken-of-the-Woods, identification which doesn't show anything like. The site's twenty odd mile away and was only visiting for a tender, If the weathers fine over the weekend and I get time, I'll go back and try to find it again.

Name and shame. Who actually thought this was a good idea?

This one: [ame]https://www.amazon.co.uk/Collins-Tree-Guide-Owen-Johnson/dp/0007207719/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1484932325&sr=1-1&keywords=collins+tree+guide[/ame] I've copies on my desk, in the car and at home. And while you're at it, download our David Humpheries Fungi App

Sorry OMC, I disagree. 3. Target for Car Cannons on Top Gear!

Police warn over new HMRC lawsuit telephone scam

Send it to spud and get it ported, oh no! Wait.....

Repsupinate, that's it. Overslept and waiting for the kettle for my first coffee. New rule, don't post before coff.

We're surviving, ya know how it goes:biggrin: Take care

Last one on a long dead Horse chestnut. I should have known 5. As I've seen it before Pic 4, the 1st pic of post 4 was flat to the bark, can't think of the term, so I couldn't see the underneath- more like a layer on it. Thanks Chris

You've lost me, but it's been a long, long day.

That chain needs tightening!

Luke it's pretty rough when you're whole life changes in a heartbeat, but good on ya for moving on. Can't offer you much more than best wishes and success in your new venture. Stay strong and keep that positive attitude.

Think I'm just old and jaded. If you're a good climber you just get told by the client how easy the job you've just sweated blood on is.

Chondorostereum purpureum?