Large urban tree failure

[David Humphries]

Lucky escape !

 

Will undoubtedly provide a great deal of focus/debate on this type of species, in this situation and the management there of.

 

Huge tree flattens cars after narrowly missing playground in exclusive London square | Mail Online

 

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[josharb87]

I love this comment

 

"I can remember removing one of these huge trees which was growing in between 3 houses, one of which was my sister's place in London. There was no way to drop the tree in a traditional way so I spent an entire week climbing up the 5 upward branches of this monster which was 160ft tall then roping myself off & cutting it into logs with a chainsaw I carried to London on the train from Cardiff which I then lowered with a rope & pulley. While working on it, my brother in law who was helping on the ground had a constant stream of homeowners offering me thousands of pounds to do the same for them because they also had a problem tree.

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[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

note the poly in the old wound!

[Ben Ballard]

Not a lot of root on it could it have ganno rotting its base is that a fruit on the old wound up the stem ? Don't look a great place for a big pop

[silky fox]

WOW!!!!:eek::eek::eek:

[Craig Johnson]

'pruned' in February, so it must have been inspected to specify the works, bet someone is sweating

[Stubby]

WOW!!!!:eek::eek::eek:

 

Yea .. that's about right silky . Was a whoppa . !

[Le Sanglier]

'pruned' in February, so it must have been inspected to specify the works, bet someone is sweating

 

Thinking that myself:001_smile:

[Rich Rule]

Glad no one was hurt. Quite a big tree there and very lucky there were no serious casualties.

 

Must admit though, there are a few muppets in the comments.

[Stubby]

Glad no one was hurt. Quite a big tree there and very lucky there were no serious casualties.

 

Must admit though, there are a few muppets in the comments.

 

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