Thoughts on weeping willow failure

[daltontrees]

Codominant failure has nothing to do with SBD; 2 different animals entirely.

 

Different symptoms, agreed. Entirely different animals? I don't think so. They both involve failures at the extreme end of perfectly normal loadings. Who is to say that the biomechanical or maybe even biochemiocal or biophysical explanation for why wood fails in any situation isn't shared in quite a lot of ways between codominant union failures, normal (perpendicular) union failures and Sumer branch drop failures? And that's even before we try to examine the similarities between the circumstances (summer, heavy rain and so forth) of SBD and this Willow's failure for common ground.

 

C'mon, you encourage open-mindedness, I would be disappointed if you don't share at least a slight hankering to understand the mechanisms of structural weakening in summer situations that seems to manifest itself in sudden failures in a slight breeze which astonish and confound on trees that have withstood screaming hurricanes in the preceding winter. Tell me one more time they are not linked?

 

maybe I am being too sniffy. Dogs and cats are different animals, but they both have 4 legs.

[sloth]

Have you seen the latent decay papers by Raynor (sp?) and Lynne Boddy? Think Schwartz has written on it. I 'd assume you have, as they're old, but I can email them to anyone interested.

 

Me too please mate

 

 

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[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

stand 8 arborists under a tree and youll get 8 opinions, often all differing!

[daltontrees]

stand 8 arborists under a tree and youll get 8 opinions, often all differing!

 

So how many arboriculturists does it take to change a lightbulb? Whoa, steady on, I mean I know the lightbulb isn't actually shedding light on anything but do we really need to change it...?

[treeseer]

So how many arboriculturists does it take to change a lightbulb? Whoa, steady on, I mean I know the lightbulb isn't actually shedding light on anything but do we really need to change it...?

 

 

OK not entirely different...but rather/quite/ a goodly bit different then.

 

 

Forget the lighbulb, light a candle!

[Andyd1606]

Thanks everyone for your views on it it's interesting so see others differing opinions. I went round to the customers yesterday and cleared the mess up. They have decided to leave the tree as it is and let nature take its course as there's nothing to get damaged if it does fail in the future.

 

 

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[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

Thanks everyone for your views on it it's interesting so see others differing opinions. I went round to the customers yesterday and cleared the mess up. They have decided to leave the tree as it is and let nature take its course as there's nothing to get damaged if it does fail in the future.

 

 

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love it, as nature intended:thumbup1: