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    Back in the old days they would have put a few steel straps around it to keep it together. Not proposing you do that, but many an old tree has been saved with steel straps. Potentially many killed that way too in the end.
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    is it honey bees that are living there? If not do you know what species it is? I have started creating some honey bee hives in the Orchard on the estate I manage. Great fun looking after bees and they are quite self sufficient. Quite a fascinating subject.
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    How are your bees doing now? We have a very large old oak with a perfect size hole in it. A colony of bees have lived in the tree for years. Its a great thing to see. The more bees the better I say.
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    Hi Ben, Thank you. I hadn't got to finding out what each of them were so your input is much appreciated. I am working on self teaching mycology and have bought a number of books recently. Do you have any books that are your main go to books for reference? I have Jordan encyclopedia, Phillips and the Collins fungi guide. All of which are good. Though they don't all say what the fungi does. I find it a fascinating subject that we don't yet know enough about. I normally take a few photos of each to show the gills and stipe, I will see if I have others of these. I try to put up as many as I can work out on the irecord website then you get expert advice on your upload which I find very useful. But welcome to the fungi hunting team on arbtalk, if I may be so bold in saying. I did see your post the other day.
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    That’s a nice saw indeed. I recently got the larger 572. As has been said. Sugi bars are a lot better. I just retired our MS230 too.
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    Early flowering
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    Fair point and I suppose realistically if it’s one tree and one job it’s no great odds. Besides the suckers will want cutting back yearly to keep them under control
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    Nice bit of DOF there mate, what is that pear or cherry?
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    I haven't seen it fruiting on Tilia myself in my area, but lots of Kretz on Tilia.
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    An old post, but great tree.
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    Good find I would say. Any more pics? Did you get to take a look inside?
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    To be fair. It is best to cut them back in the dormant season otherwise you do promote further growth of the suckers. Very common with Common Lime The hybrid, Tilia x europaea. I have done it in both growing and dormant and when done in growing you promote further growth and get an even bigger mass of leaves. I would say do it as early as you can.
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    Very good indeed. And yes very funny was laughing out loud. Probably due to the very wet winter and little sunshine over the last 6 months. The only thing that is just in flower are the Chanticleers in the car park and even then not much out yet. Buds are just about to pop but not quite there. Sorry to put a dampener on it. Will see if I can find something in flower.
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    Great looking work! Want to get into some hedge laying myself just need time Nice weather by the looks too
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    Thanks David.
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    East Grinstead
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    Small bracket on what looked to be an old willow of sorts. Ganoderma (I believe), but which one?
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    A pair of greylags flew into our pond this morning and left fairly quickly. A quick iphone vid IMG_1120.MOV
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    I believe with money anything is possible... well almost..... I probably could, its up to the bosses..... LOL!!!!!?
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    If I had the kit, I would mill it. But for now, I have some lumps of beech, fairly good size that are up for grabs if anyone wants them. The base section is pretty rotten, the other two sections both measure 9' or over and are about 2.5-3' diameter. The tree had fallen across a slope so could only get it out in 3 sections despite the 14 tonne machine and chain.
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    Great log grab on the Avant. Am jealous.
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    A few bits and pieces this week. Some jelly ear (wood ear) and rot within a large beech that came down in the recent storms.
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    What were the results of the Picus Steve, if of course you can tell us.
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    Was thinking sessile as a guess. Or a hybrid again. Initially thought the leaves looked a bit like Q. cerris. But may be combination of a couple. Oaks are pretty amazing in that the leaves on one tree can all be different sizes and look quite different.
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    Nice, what about some photies

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