Rip, twang, kipper-bang

[geoff]

That's an impressive fracture David, is the rest coming down?

[David Humphries]

I don't know Geoff.

 

Just came across it this morning.

 

There's a construction going on next door, but not much sign of life at the oak property.

 

I'll update it if it gets felled

 

 

 

 

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[geoff]

Probably not viable, but it would be nice to let it do it's own thing.

[RobRainford]

Double hazard beam on willow

[David Humphries]

looks tricky Rob

 

 

 

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[RobRainford]

Luckily its in a low use/hazard area but there's a group of willows in various states of falling apart so any failures like this will be tidied and then they can be left to their own devices to an extent. Most of them have dipped into the riverbank and supported themselves.

[David Humphries]

Oak root plate failure from last weekends winds.

 

reduced and then winched out where it was resting in a neighbouring tree.

 

Then winch cleared everything into the surrounding brambles.

 

Trunk staying as it is now that the path is clear.

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[RobRainford]

Out on my travels. Seems willows are the most creative with their failures

 

 

[David Humphries]

Fair observation Rob, as the species lends itself readily to delaminating, it would make an interesting case study to see if the majority of the lateral fractures they suffer were at the exact sweet spot of tension and compression within the branch structure ie; toward the top of the branch (most probable I'd imagine) or relatively random as photos of such appear to show.......

 

 

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[RobRainford]

Fair observation Rob, as the species lends itself readily to delaminating, it would make an interesting case study to see if the majority of the lateral fractures they suffer were at the exact sweet spot of tension and compression within the branch structure ie; toward the top of the branch (most probable I'd imagine) or relatively random as photos of such appear to show.......

 

 

 

 

 

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I'll do a bit of an observation as I am coming across dozens of hazard beams in all shapes and sizes and near enough all are willow.

 

Without seeing the trees before the failures, it would be difficult to ascertain the exact sweet spot. I'm finding lots of fairly fresh ones, most likely due to the recent winds.

 

I'll start taking the camera out to get better pics of some of these and others I've come across.

 

I have seen plenty potential hazard beams and some that have cracked slightly but since occluded. It's the strong upward curve in most willows that seems to attribute to the number of them that I'm finding, aswell as the readiness to fail.

 

 

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