Rip, twang, kipper-bang

[Matthew Arnold]

No sign of rot? second image does not concur, ductile failure indicating a white rot? and a strange concave area just behind the cambium, girdling third of the stem approx?

 

I was on about the Silver Birch at the end of the selection:thumbup: The others obviously were rotted but not the birch.

[Matthew Arnold]

Some of the failures from last Thursday that i found in Delcombe today.

[David Humphries]

Your shots almost supply the natural sounds of destruction as well

 

 

 

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[Matthew Arnold]

Your shots almost supply the natural sounds of destruction as well

 

 

 

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I think i am finally getting the nack of failure photography.

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

damn I am getting out in the woods next weekend, havent been out for ages what with the housework writing etc.

 

those pics got me busting to get out!

[David Humphries]

Adjacent Turkey Oak with Ganoderma resinaceum & Armillaria sp, went over in the strong wind couple of weeks back & hit the Ash & Oak next to it.

 

Must of made an almighty RTK-B !

 

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[armchairarborist]

crack doing what it does and a h/c falling to bits:thumbup1:

[David Humphries]

That willow has been subject to some mighty forces.

 

Is that Monolith in the background on the second shot retained Dead wood. or just in the middle of complete removal?

 

 

 

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[armchairarborist]

That willow has been subject to some mighty forces.

 

Is that Monolith in the background on the second shot retained Dead wood. or just in the middle of complete removal?

 

 

 

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thats a deadwood habitat stump, plus its full of old electric wires for carpark floodlights and other metalwork, let it rot:thumbup1:

[Arborator]

Had a couple go down the other week, nice big beech and a birch, will try to get piccys up. Got a couple that scare me though and the buggers are still standing!