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Eric Frei

Imagine how much attention I would have drawn if I wore a turban!

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playfordtree

What's your name son?

"Ekka."

Sounds a bit foreign to me!
you haven't been taking flying lessons have you?
better lock you up for a couple of weeks.

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Sean Freeman

Yep, probably would have been something like this The Chaser's War on Everything - Terrorist security response • videosift.com

Eric Frei

Oh that was a cracker!

Hows the reactor one and they show him in. lol

Sorry, I gotta go to AS and razz a few yanks up.

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playfordtree

The Chasers war on everything should be compulsory viewing for school children.

They are keeping the aussie tradition of sticking it up authority alive and well.

I just hope one of them doesn't get shot one day

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JohN Dee

Lol thats great stuff there...

A few months back now, me and my mates were down at the Sydney Harbor Bridge - luna park side at 2 in the morning... From the time we walked down from where we parked the car to the water we already had the security guard following us... We ended up doing 3-4 laps with him following us before we left lol...

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Eric Frei

They get under Johnny Cowards skin too! lol

Dressed like rabbits they harassed him on his morning walk to see if he could pull a few more outta his _ss! Rabits that is. lol

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Eric Frei

Cleared the footpath and wires.

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Eric Frei

And fixed the rest up!

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Ace Master

A good clean up makes it a fantastic stand out centre piece tree.Hate picking up those seed pods.

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newguy18

Nice pics Ekka and a job well done.

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Sean Freeman

Nice job Eric

ropensaddle

Hey Ekka over here yanks have a different meaning or at least
I think they do

Eric Frei

Like what does it mean over there if some-one calls you a Yank? Or does it matter who calls you one, like if a Kiwi or Aussie called you one that'd be way different to a Polish calling you one right?!

Is it like a southern thing ... Yankees etc

Do elaborate, over here means you're an American, that's all, not derogatory or anything.

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ropensaddle

Yeah northerners are called yanks still in some of the south
but I have a lot of friends that are yanks just funnin!!!

Eric Frei

Couple befores and afters on the tree across the road.

Jim1NZ did the work, right out there on some small wood.

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Eric Frei

Root pruning on a development site. Any roots over 15mm dia had to be cut and treated.

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treeseer

what did you treat them with?

Eric Frei

I made a solution of hormone rooting powder and added silica

Clonex Red Gel - Growth Technology

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Therrin

Ekka,

those mangroves look pretty dirty, what kinda chain did you use on them?

Sean Freeman

It would be more effective to have the specs for cleancutting before the excavator makes its presence felt. Once the roots are torn and fractured it is very hard to find sound timber to clean cut....hydrovac along the outermost line of the excavation then clean cut (if it retains sufficient root and soil volume for the tree)...then all excavation inside that line can continue as normal, you won't get the fractured roots.
Also I would most definately be applying Trichoderma in solution or better still in a water saving gel and sugar solution.

Eric Frei

Decided to not climb/ block out this topped pole left by some fool ... went for the drop but had to cut high.

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JohN Dee

Good call on the felling there Eric, rotted like a MOFO! Hey wheres the hinge pic?

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Ace Master

EKKa
That's the shot,no mucking around

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Eric Frei

LOL, no more pics coz it was starting to get dark, the groundy was leaving, I had stumps to grind, load to dump and pick the kids up from after school care before 6 (it's dark here at 5pm these days you know)

However, here's the deal.

The hinge was nice and parallel, maybe 3/4" hingewood, text book stuff. (had to be due to potential insurance claim)

The entire cambium (sapwood) was compromised, like honeycomb ... however the heartwood was 100% good.

So, it wasn't like the typical scene of termite but rather some borer infestation feeding on the cambium.

Stump grinding, roots were good, I'd say 100% in tact.

So from a VTA point of view it was really UGLY

From a structural engineers point of view, OK

Moral of the story ... well there's two.

1/ Better to be safe than sorry.

2/ Never assume more than you can see, a drill test would have confirmed integrity. Just think if this were some significant tree and you felled it, no hollow, no decay, no termites..... Ooops, egg on your face.

I have mentioned this a lot before but I will say in a consulting capacity I'm starting to drill them all where there's any VTA that tells me possible decay.

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Good drop!!

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JohN Dee

That's a well written clear as crisp post there mate, I can imagine all the aspects you mentioned very clearly - good job mate

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newguy18

as always a good tight drop.I would have climbed and taken one chunk out myself but then again i wasn't there so i couldn't see the playing field up close.

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Eric Frei

You've surely heard of these terms.

The axiom of uniform stress.

Trees are self optimising structures.

Well, some just grow till they bust! Might be a case of leave trees to themselves like these were and watch what they do, self destruct.

And not just one limb but many, not just one tree but many.

Now this happened in the cooler mild winter here, days maybe 24C and not much wind.





This one gives you an idea the size of it.


Notice the darker cracks inside


Looking closer at those cracks and there's no bark in there, they're cracks that have discoloured due to a fungi in there, found some hyphae.


And another on different tree, ends have been cleaned up.




And there's a lot more to come as there's many trees like this with many branches like this.

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JohN Dee

That 2nd last pic looks to me like it was done by the wind... Just my opinion from the pics.

There is a Euc a few blocks over from where we live, that in the Christmas Summer Storms has slits all upp the trunk from where the wind was blowing it as if it was trying to wind the tree up like a clothesline. I keep saying to myself everytime I drive past there I gotta get photos...

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