Are you sure you know about trees and risk???

[daltontrees]

2 hours ago, Peter Sterken said:

Wonderfully said!! The following article is not as complex as the Nature one, and it also analyses some tree risk assessment methods: article tree risk assessment

I recall the article, but I would observe that there is more to tree risk assessment than tree hazard assessment, one has to take into account target presence and severity of harm or damage in the event of failure. But yes, it's a subject where some like to hide behind the impossibility of seeing inside every tree while others, the ones you'd like to have in your corner in a fight, can take quantificatoin usefully quite a long way. 

Recently a (remaining nameless) static load testing guru told me that if the tree passed a static load test the risk from it was zero and if it didn't the risk was unacceptable because it will fail. I think that was taking it a bit TOO far.

[Khriss]

Good that it was tested in a 'storm' of fixed velocity and direction, once, maybe twice 🙄 good fr years that 😉 K

[daltontrees]

10 minutes ago, Khriss said:

Good that it was tested in a 'storm' of fixed velocity and direction, once, maybe twice 🙄 good fr years that 😉 K

Well, the guy is a leading light in static load testing so I didn't want to be too hard on him.😉

[Stubby]

17 minutes ago, Khriss said:

Good that it was tested in a 'storm' of fixed velocity and direction, once, maybe twice 🙄 good fr years that 😉 K

The only thing I remember about palms is that in some species the sap can attack the aluminum parts of your chainsaw . 

[Billhook]

The first thing you must know about palms is "Don't take my Coconuts" !  It will not be safe for you!

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uM7HlfrqHH4

[Khriss]

56 minutes ago, Stubby said:

The only thing I remember about palms is that in some species the sap can attack the aluminum parts of your chainsaw . 

I have had a few nice evenings under palms - non of them involving chainsaws. K