Rip, twang, kipper-bang

[David Humphries]

held on by a midges baw hair as we say up this neck of the woods!

 

Kinda depends on whether you're confronted by a west coast teradactyl type midge or one of those pesky little east coast gnats

 

 

 

 

 

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[David Goss]

Kinda depends on whether you're confronted by a west coast teradactyl type midge or one of those pesky little east coast gnats

 

 

 

 

 

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Yea thats true, i was forgetting where i was for a moment there

I am no longer a west coast wino but now a nice polite east coast softy!

I should go back home every now and again and stand outside for a few hours with my top off just to harden myself up again

[Gnarlyoak]

Wasn't alot holding that chunk up on the tree

 

 

 

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Nope and you never would have guessed it either, limb was situated about 30ft up the stem, in full leaf and looked nice and healthy. Situated right next to estate yard we working out off at the time. Left a nice clear yard at 4pm one afternoon, returned at 8am the following day "Eh, where'd that tree come from?"

 

"ahhh"

 

"oooh"

 

"bugger!"

 

"Right, we'll park the van over that side today then, shall we....."

[Pat Ferrett]

One of the trees that got damaged in the mini tornado we had in Sussex a couple of weeks ago.

[Pat Ferrett]

The Oak was only a matter of time before it failed.

 

The other picture is of a shard of spilt wood 4ft long laying 40ft up in the canopy of an undamaged Beech.

[Matthew Arnold]

A ticking time bomb waiting to go off. Already had 2 trees fail due to the weight of the fruit. We generally wait for them to fail before dealing with them as it gives chance for members of the public to remove the fruit. (I've already taken a bin sack full).

[marcus_arb]

big pine failed in Calveras big tree park, Cali.

[RobArb]

Twist and snap:biggrin:

 

Sent from Rob's GalaxySII

[David Humphries]

Still weather, but relatively wet summer & mast, combined with brown decay lead to this non too trivial failure.

 

Nothing obvious externally to indicate that this limb was imminantly about to detach itself.

 

 

 

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[likeitorlumpit]

Do you now fell or is it big reduction for habitat?