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I do not follow. Driving there (on the clock) and excavating and examining the infection took an hour, assessing the other factors and recording the history from the client and chatting with them another hour, and some light research/calling around and writing the report another hour, 3 hours...

Some overly cautious authorities think that dumb careless arborists can't remove funky rot without tearing through boundaries, codit walls. I don't think decay can be assessed without looking into cavities, and ya gotta get the rot out to do that. And I don't think we are dumb or careless...

snarf that's a fearmonger/removalist's favorite line; way beneath you I thought. :|: Yes, i got higher-risk trees hanging over my children's bedrooms, and yes we all sleep very well. Yes i did a risk assessment and yes pointed out targets...but clients do not need me to point to where they...

Fair question. Answer is, calling for removal based on the sight of mushrooms cuts out an essential step in risk management--assessing the risk! :roll: Finding out how much rot there is seems to be important in most cases. Sure, if you recognize the shroom on a spruce and you have seen 100...

So it's cut first, and ask questions later? ID ing the fungus is only part of the job--how extensive is the decay? If you cannot answer that then you are ignorant of the core criterion for decision making. OM, skerl, if you recommend removal before exploring, you may be crazed by sawdust...