Happens every year

[gf beranek]

Here's a couple of pics of the storm damage in and around the russian river area. It happens every year. Personally I couldn't stand to live under those trees.

[rumination]

Wow!

[wiley_p]

Every year is right. Build a house in amongst large trees, and wake up with a smashed house.

[MasterBlaster]

I've always wondered what would happen if all those trees were cabled together.

[rumination]

Dominos?

[MasterBlaster]

Or, each would help to hold the others up.

[Brian]

Whew! Like a hot knife through butter

[vharrison]

What a shame.

[TheTreeWiseMen]

You pays yer money......and you takes yer chance!

[Banned by Squirrels]

That's an incredible failure...

Musta been a hell of a storm.

[Che]

Was that top tree hollow at the base? I'm looking at the discoloration.

[gf beranek]

Yeah, there was rot in the base of that fir, and it wasn't hidden from the trained eye either.

[Bounce]

I see this quite a lot myself. During one of the big storms last winter, trees fell on every house on my street except mine.:D It's not that I don't have lots of big trees, I just cleaned them up - took out the dead wood and thinned them a bit. I also applied mycorhizal fungi to the soil and did some aeration. It cost me about 3 days of work on a dozen firs, but saved me tens of thousands. This cobblers children don't go barefoot!

[sotc]

This cobblers children don't go barefoot!

:lol: :lol:

[gf beranek]

Looks like we're in for another one. There's people still out of power from the storm we had last week.

It's times like this I'm glad to live in town.

[Frans]

we were out of power for a day. My 3000 watt generator sure comes in handy

[sotc]

wow, they're calling for 3 inches of snow here tonight!

[Husky385]

Nothing but storms of late, I feel sorry for those folk

[Paul B]

Welcome Husky

[squisher]

Welcome!

Check it out, tell us a little about yourself. Only Paul bites and I think it's the Dutch in him that causes that.:D

http://www.gypoclimber.com/showthread.php?t=4564

[Paul B]

bollocks! I said hello first, 7 minutes before you did !

[sotc]

chuckys blowdown in another thread reminded me i wanted to post some pics of a job i bid last week. my buddy in these pics is over 6 feet tall for perspective. some of these are the same tree from different angles but they had 10 go down. i think this is just 3 or 4 of the trees. they had a pole with 3 transformers land in the back of a pick up!

[olyman]

question--with a tree that big, id think the root ball would be MUCH larger?????seems mighty small for such a tall and big tree.

[MasterBlaster]

Pines don't have much of a root ball at all.

[olyman]

never noticed that before,butch. even on dozed stumps and trees. half that tall oaks around here would have twice the root ball. at half the height of that pine---

[sotc]

those really are large root balls for a pine. that was saturated soil and hhigh winds combined.

[Cobleskill]

It's amazing pines hold up to the wind as well as they do with the little root ball.

[Underwor]

Pines hold up because they are packed in together tight enough that only the top few feet of the tree gets the high winds. That is why the edges of many clear cuts are surrounded with a lot of down trees. They are definitely part of a plant community, all helping each other.

[TC3]

I couldn't view the pix ? >>> but can just imagine.
BobOfTheUnderWorld, I never thought of it that way... a bunch of pine planted together would certainly provide a stability that one standing alone could never endure.

[OLD PUP]

We had a customer, said he went to his backyard & watched his huge Pine slowly fall onto his garage. He told us you could watch the root ball/ like in slow motion. This all happened on a perfectly calm day.Pine was 34" dia. x 85-90 ft. tall.