Interesting Biomechanics

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

So........did ya waffle ya way into the wallet

 

 

 

 

 

Nicely put together

 

 

 

 

 

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Are you joking, Mr Clark never even bothered to pass this on, i wonder why? they was friends of the family too.

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

torsional fracture (old) common in "edge" trees due to wind loading along/deflecteddown wood side, nice example of it.

 

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[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

Chestnuts are notorious for limb failures, can you spot the iminent failure here?

 

 

and i can almost hear him saying it, Matthecks "Stazi ears!" nice example.

 

[David Humphries]

Chestnuts are notorious for limb failures, can you spot the iminent failure here?]

 

 

 

 

Yeah that piece of small dw on lhs of central stem, couldn't of been long for this mortal coil

 

 

 

 

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[Bundle 2]

From another forum of eminently educated and knowledgeable arboriculturists...I bring you the following nugget of wisdom.....

" If it is arguably imminent then it is...if it is not arguably imminent..."

I think you get the point" ?!

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

just last couple of weeks a poplar fell across a main rd, it was the main road into chesham from a41 and berko. i had badgered the owner for 3-4 months to do something about it, it was riddled with rigidiporus, one day 3-4 weeks before it fell i saw that it had moved a tad and was distressed enough to really argue about this with the (petrol forecourt manager) and i told them it would fall within a week, well i was three weeks out, thats good enough ability in assesing a trees hazard potential if you ask me. and that is not a lone example, another I said would fail did so that week. but the worst was a beech south bucks wouldnt allow me to pollard or fell, 3 weeks it was on a collarado, a very flat one, the guy got out of his car walked up to his flat and as he filled the kettle for a brew saw his car flattened before his very eyes. i wanted to sue, was subbing and they didnt want to push it.

[David Humphries]

posted these along with other wintry woody wonderland shots earlier today, but took them for this thread so no appologies for duplication.

 

 

couple of fibre buckles, visually enhanced by a dusting of snow.

 

 

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[Bundle 2]

Nice angle David.....!

 

Quite impressive buttress roots going on there....?

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

See the torsion in the left image also, nice double buckle on the right

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

Im waiting for consent to do some work on this beautiful old beech, reduced hard about 15 year ago, vigorous response and now needs some tlc to reduce end loading and poor inner form. little growth internaly due to density going to encourage some retrenchment hopefully, not a lot just get some light in to the crown and get some options for later. its getting embrittled in its old age so options for later reductions needed