Summer limb drop .

[Stubby]

Was walking in the woods with my dog today when something caught my eye to my left . There were 6 or 7 fallow deer watching me . As I clocked them there was a loud crack and the deer shot off . A beech limb fell from directly above where they were stood . It hit the ground and bounced up a bit .  . I suppose it was 7 or 8 inches in diameter at the point of separation and 15 or 20 feet long .

[nepia]

Makes you feel privileged to be there doesn't it.

 

I'm going to be a bit of a Johnny Two Shits here I'm afraid...  Two weeks ago today we had friends for lunch.  As Graham and I sat outside in the glorious sunshine putting the world right we heard prolonged slow cracking of wood.  I thought 'SLD of one of those oaks yonder'. As we looked towards to source we saw one of the biggest limbs (6"dia, 15' long) on a 40' pop slowly sag and tear off, hanging in the adjacent hornbeam and horse chestnut (it's made it to the ground now).

What are the odds?

[Khriss]

Clearly started now, passed one on saturday , roadside oak had let a limb go , union on trunk looked sound , lot of meat to it judging by the cleared , stacked timber K

[Toad]

Had a 15"ish diameter limb drop off a neighbours tree into our field a couple of weeks back. Managed to end up stood like a tripod on a fairly thin limb. Couple of cuts and a tug with the landrover and it was nice and safe on the floor.

[Patrick goulding]

4 hours ago, Stubby said:

Was walking in the woods with my dog today when something caught my eye to my left . There were 6 or 7 fallow deer watching me . As I clocked them there was a loud crack and the deer shot off . A beech limb fell from directly above where they were stood . It hit the ground and bounced up a bit .  . I suppose it was 7 or 8 inches in diameter at the point of separation and 15 or 20 feet long .

It’s a good job you want stood under it mate 👍 

[Peasgood]

Local road blocked this morning

 

 

[Peasgood]

There have been two more within a very short distance of the above Must be a dodgy spot for trees.

According to FB there's a whole tree down tonight.

[difflock]

We had that on our only decent Beech tree a few years ago, a limb fully 10-12" across fell across the lane, no signs of wounding or decay, and let go close to the bole.

It came down overnight though, which was a bit odd.

[Stubby]

Just heard from a friend of mine that a local farmer was mowing his lawn and a limb fell and killed him out right . His land was next to the land I keepered on . Not seen the fella for a number of years but fcuk . Bit of a shock .

[MattyF]

We dead wooded some large beech years back , I don't think I was even a climbing back then so over 27 years ago .. any way having our lunch break on the park resting in the shade on the other side one of the beeches we had been working on an hour before collapses right over a children's play area , we ran over to kids and people screaming expecting the worse , luckily some how apart from going through the play area perimeter fence no one was hurt... in the same month another killed some one in another park 10 miles away so the council felled most mature beech in the vicinity of any major public areas .. maybe a bit knee jerk!