Windblown!

[Minotaur]

Wind blown - 75-80 ft odd Beech. Root plated had all but completely rotted away - very lucky that this tree fell where it did. Any other way and it would have hit one of the surrounding properties, and as it came down in the early hours it would very likely have crushed the occupants in their beds!

Edited January 31, 2012 by Minotaur
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[cousin jack]

Whoa, lucky escape for someone there!

[Graham]

Very lucky but you'd have thought the owners would have noticed some decline in the tree well before this.

[Riggerbear]

I dont mean to sound like a know it all but that looks like a Horse Chestnut ?

[Matthew Arnold]

I dont mean to sound like a know it all but that looks like a Horse Chestnut ?

 

[defenderjack]

 

ditto + 1

[RobRainford]

Yep that's a HC! The bark is the orange/brown that's characteristic and the correct thickness on the branches.

 

Certainly ain't no beech. If it is then the literature has some 'splainin to do!

[Minotaur]

Hands up didn't look at the photos in the album before posting them up - wrist slapped.

[Mark Bolam]

That would have been a hairy stuntfell between the concrete posts.

 

Is it just me, or do most windblows tend to fall 'luckily' and not do the damage they might have? Obviously some are catastrophic, but I see them again and again where I think - lucky it fell where it did or....

[nottsarb]

I dont mean to sound like a know it all but that looks like a Horse Chestnut ?

 

looks like a lime