Rip, twang, kipper-bang

[David Humphries]

There's going to be many branch failures all over this autumn, that's for sure.

 

Shame there's not a national database already set up to capture and compare these occurances.

 

We certainly had an alarming number of heavily loaded branches the last time we had a big mast year in 2011

 

http://arbtalk.co.uk/forum/ecology/33281-mast-year.html

 

 

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[Hedge hunter]

There's going to be many branch failures all over this autumn, that's for sure.

 

Shame there's not a national database already set up to capture and compare these occurances.

 

We certainly had an alarming number of heavily loaded branches the last time we had a big mast year in 2011

 

http://arbtalk.co.uk/forum/ecology/33281-mast-year.html

 

 

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thats probably true..the trees are heavy this year...

[mdvaden]

Seems virtually no other tree can fall and splinter like a Coast Redwood if it lands a certain way.

 

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Edited September 15, 2013 by mdvaden

[David Humphries]

Seems virtually no other tree can fall and splinter like a Coast Redwood if it lands a certain way.

 

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Oh I don't know Mario, didn't you see the beech on the first page of the thread?

 

That redwood failure looks cataclysmic though, do you see many like that?

 

 

 

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[nepia]

I posted some pics of a beech failure on page 2 of this thread. Three years on almost to the day and the fungs are busy busy busy. As expected the tree's been left alone and that is likely to continue; I hope so.

[David Humphries]

ah, so it didn't become a Phoenix then and rise from the ashes of destruction

 

Thanks for posting Jon, always interested in seeing big hulks left to rot down naturally and the succession of saprophytes that come to feast.

 

 

 

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[geoff]

Couple of pics from a willow, old defect, & nice failure.

 

DSCF0003 by geoff321, on Flickr

 

DSCF0005 by geoff321, on Flickr

[David Humphries]

Great delamination in that last shot Geoff

 

 

 

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[Matthew Arnold]

Drove past this one twice today and both times could see it was moving slowly. So closed the path and watched it come down with a resounding thump. Had the MS362 with a 20 inch bar in the back as just cleared another tree off a local bridleway. The wood was mush in the middle.

[felixthelogchopper]

Couple of pics from a willow, old defect, & nice failure.

 

DSCF0003 by geoff321, on Flickr

 

DSCF0005 by geoff321, on Flickr

 

The boss is back on Sunday so I'll find out if he likes his willow pollards on Monday morning, mate.