Matthew Corran

Come on then let's see everyone's final efforts! Here's mine, I've had enough it's got to go now!

I hope I didn't put you on the wrong track by saying you didn't need all those books, our tutor was very good and any info not in the workbook he provided, and you just needed to learn it parrot fashion!

Ha ha it keeps scaring me every time I look in the mirror and I've forgotten it's there!

Not sure about that, my wife reckons it's the best form of contraceptive ever!

I'm in! The wife is away for the weekend and will go nuts when she sees it, but all in a good cause!!

Just done mine last week with Chris Simpson, I thought he did a really good job and I learnt lots, don't know if I have passed yet tho! Hopefully get the results on Monday! There is a long list of books you should take with you but I found the Arb associations fungi on trees the best book for all the fungi, I put little post it's with all the colonisation strategies, rot type and relevant info on for quick reference A good tree id book, and most of the info was all in the workbook provided on the course, and that was all you needed.

We had a time limit of 1 hr for the 20 questions, 40 mins for 2 tree inspections, and I think it was 30 mins for the four fungal indents.

I'm sure I was taught that Conifers will lay down wood on the compression side of a leaning tree to push itself upright. Broadleafs will lay down wood on the tension side of a tree to pull itself upright. But when it comes to lateral limbs they will all lay down extra wood on the compression side against the implied force.

Looks like a tree pruning method called Shredding where all side branches are removed leaving the main trunk and top growth. Harvested for firewood and animal fodder. I'm probably way off!

Good man! I wimped out and didn't run after as I have got a bit of a cold hanging over me! Looks like u had fun!

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[ATTACH]138146[/ATTACH] Here's one I came across last week, there's a good bit if info on it on the kew website! http://www.kew.org/plants-fungi/Sparassis-crispa-.htm

We have changed the brake bands on our 550 about 4 or 5 times in the last 12 months and even the new design band only lasted about a month!

Yes it was quite an impressive display, although the photo is poor quality! with last years fruiting body in the cavity behind.

Yes a very large London Plane.