Check your trees for hazards

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What are the odds?
 
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one in a million

Between bears and trees, I guess staying home is becoming an option. That is terrible.
 
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There's a reason that dead limbs are known as "widow makers". Some trees are especially prone to them. (Around here eucalyptus especially.)

Hereabouts, there is the hot day / no wind problem that literally explodes limbs off of trees due to the hydrostatic pressure of the sap accumulating in the limbs and not enough wind to transpire the water. I had no idea about it until it happened just outside my window one afternoon. It sound like a 12ga shotgun had gone off.

All the best,

Peter
 
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This nearly happened to me about a year ago, right on my own property. We have a few dozen very large oak trees in the mowing areas. I was on the Woods (diesel) mower, and made a pass close to one of those trees (which also has a rope swing attached to a large branch about 20+ feet off the ground).

Just as I passed the tree I heard, (over the noise of the diesel and hearing protectors), and felt the ground shake. I stopped and looked back, and there was a branch from 6" to 8" dia and 9 feet long, laying on the ground right behind the mower where I just mowed 5 or 6 seconds earlier.
 
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The danger is real. The timing is not :oops:. Had this hiker stopped to retie a shoe or watch a bird land or had to pee... they would be alive. I saw a video of a car driving along a roadway when a huge tree fell on the car and killed the driver.
 
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ponytug said:
...no wind problem that literally explodes limbs off of trees due to the hydrostatic pressure of the sap accumulating in the limbs and not enough wind to transpire the water...
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That's the theory for what happened to my across the road neighbor's big oak tree. It was a hot July morning, plumb still and had been hot and windless for quite a while. Water was pouring out of the cuts. Biggest diameter is about 33".
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That's sad. I don't believe in luck, fate, or predestiny yet there are some things you can't avoid; it was just her time to do.
 
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Meh... Over here, eucalypt trees will randomly 'cast' a limb/branch, especially when it's dead calm.

You can't win. We've had tent-campers killed simply by pitching underneath a gum-tree.
 
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It happened in a park or trail in Minneapolis a few years back. 2 ladies were walking on a path and a tree or limb fell and killed one of them out of the blue. Found it. Link below. 2014. I was off a bit on details, but close...

www.swnewsmedia.com

Update: EP woman killed after tree falls on her identified

EP woman killed after tree falls on her
www.swnewsmedia.com www.swnewsmedia.com
 
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