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I missed that--is this a James Bond kinda picture or a Dueling Banjoes kinda picture?

Just sticking your gaff in a decayed tree will tell you a lot about how far gone it is. /but /brian, shouldn't the climber want to know how far gone it is BEFORE putting the gaffs on? "The decay starts on the tree surface and works it's way in," In an uneven pattern; highly unpredictable...

Brian and Butch must have missed the huge pictures and the written part about the big patches of hypoxylon wood decay fungus. ISA members might recall the Terrible Tar and the Bumpy Blackness, 2 Dendro articles about it. Housers might recall Blinky's posts about climbing up a tree with black...

Nice work, Gary, and nice pics. I tried to see how much rot there was behind the hypoxylon and did not see much. Would be great to cut some cookies at the points where the cankers were largest, to show this for future climbs/climbers. Did you see any tan dusty patches? re deadwooding the...

There ya go; the scientific term works for all regional dialects. ;) Once there was a letter to the editor about usage of "tulip poplar" in an article, saying it was the wrong common name to use. :? I thought wtf 2000+ words go out to 20,000 people and this is all the response we get? Why...

Re the tuliptree damaging others if it were pulled back into them--i doubt this is a great concern, as the wood is so brittle, especially decayed. The trick is to tie it off in a way and place so the trunk does not break. but then again it is leaning away from those trees so maybe the tether...

the black shiny stage is the young stage. tan dusty is the reproductive look. black and bumpy is advanced--watch out! Blinky can tell you about that. :\: Hypoxylon is a global rotter--it's been a big part of 2 dendro stories, attached. o dam no pdf's here; o well

the flat black stuff may be hypoxylon which is considered endophytic which means that it was in the plant already and spread after extreme stress aka strain. this means it is not infectious or pathogenic to other trees. they look like they have lots of other problems but won't be infected by...