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Oh right. Due to the lack of fungal activity down under in the dryer areas the trees don't become a hazard as they do here when they die. Eucs are also an extremely dense wood, this combined with their large sizes and huge amounts of polyphenol compounds seem to create this concrete like structure. Spiking dead Eucs is a nightmare! I've done a fair few where we rigged massive sections on itself with no issues, bar the shite sloshing around my shorts obviously [emoji849]. I'd chog down sections that had been dead for 5 to 10 years with no decay in the main stem. Theres a dead forest out there called ghost forest or something like that, arborists from all over go climb those giants and they've been dead for a century.

In the uk I'd never climb something that's been dead for a decade let alone rig on itself.

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Oh right. Due to the lack of fungal activity down under in the dryer areas the trees don't become a hazard as they do here when they die. Eucs are also an extremely dense wood, this combined with their large sizes and huge amounts of polyphenol compounds seem to create this concrete like structure. Spiking dead Eucs is a nightmare! I've done a fair few where we rigged massive sections on itself with no issues, bar the shite sloshing around my shorts obviously [emoji849]. I'd chog down sections that had been dead for 5 to 10 years with no decay in the main stem. Theres a dead forest out there called ghost forest or something like that, arborists from all over go climb those giants and they've been dead for a century.

In the uk I'd never climb something that's been dead for a decade let alone rig on itself.




Interesting. How high do you recon that euc in the Tahune airwalk video was ?
I only ask as it looked a lot higher than 100’.
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