Jim B
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Is it damp in the bunker? Have you resplit and tested the inside of the log?
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WCMT Link has been on here for months. Joe Alsop has written a shorter article for the RFS journal this month.
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No one has actually stated practical reasons why they prefer the 880, just two that just 'like' it. Forums are very good at destroying a brand, business or reputation just through people's personal dislike.
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I have a brand new 3120, 36" and 56" bars with ripping chains for sale plus Alaskan mill and lots of other bits. PM me if interested.
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Ash not looking good here now more seeds than leaves on some. Worried clients beginning to call. I do fear that an ash will saturate the cordwood market. Firewood merchants round hare not taking anymore wood at present as firewood not shifting and yards full. Another warm winter, low oil price and chalara then we may have a storm outside of the teacup!
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We had the same thing four three to four years ago but over the that summer the growth died of chalara and the seeds with it so they have never dropped and I presume are not viable. It's another symptom if the seeds are still on your trees next spring. We have had a drought in Norfolk over the last few months which may cause heavy seeding but I do believe like apple trees that have one good year before dying I feel chalara maybe more the cause.
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The main reason I have said get out and look is because it makes the tree sector look very daft when the public asks questions and the tree surgeon struggles to answer. I am increasing seeing reduction work being carried out on 50% dead ash trees when the tree will be dead within two years. What a waste of customers money, the tree surgeon should know better than that it's their job to be informed and up to date.
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I just knew you would get involved. Thanks arbtalk see you around.
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Another observation beware when felling these ash even when hardly infected. I am finding the hinge will fail or shear if trying to fell other than with the lean. Before you could fell ash around corners of any size and the hinge would hold strength has been lost and they will no longer barber chair.
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Because this has hit our mature trees without anyone noticing, I have ring samples for Norfolk showing first infection in 2002 and possibly 1997 but the symptoms on young trees only appeared in 2008 ish. The thinning crowns are far more important than the diamonds look back through this thread. The report by WCMT and one by Gary Battell SCC very important that you look. And yes only one ash with with a full in damaged crown in not an under statement. In France the survivors can be up to 5 km apart.
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Excellent stuff John you are right on all fronts. It is dire here and the prediction is now a 5% survival rate so basically if you haven't got it you will have and as bad as here. The most obvious symptom are the thin crowns I've had years of people trying to tell me it's drought. Drought dieback starts at the top and works down as in stagheaded oak, chalara thins the whole crown leaving vast numbers of buds un opened. It's not just the public the tree professional should be taking far more of an interest. The forestry sector is far more clued up on this than the tree surgeon which is a very sorry state of affairs. Get out of your truck on the way home everybody and goddamn look!
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Not really perhaps you under estimate what is to come.
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100% chalara.Tree to right in picture is classic thin crown we are now in June trees should be in full leaf. You will not find diamonds on anything other than a sapling. I have seen one un affected tree in the whole of Norfolk.
