gf beranek
Old Schooler
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.
Happens every year
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rumination
Migratory Hippie Arbolist
Wow!
wiley_p
Climbing Up
Every year is right. Build a house in amongst large trees, and wake up with a smashed house.
MasterBlaster
Administrator Emeritus
I've always wondered what would happen if all those trees were cabled together.
rumination
Migratory Hippie Arbolist
Dominos?
MasterBlaster
Administrator Emeritus
Or, each would help to hold the others up.
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Brian
Guest
Whew! Like a hot knife through butter
vharrison
Island Girl
What a shame.
TheTreeWiseMen
Redneck Limey
You pays yer money......and you takes yer chance!
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Banned by Squirrels
Guest
That's an incredible failure...
Musta been a hell of a storm.
Musta been a hell of a storm.
Che
Treehouser
Was that top tree hollow at the base? I'm looking at the discoloration.
gf beranek
Old Schooler
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Yeah, there was rot in the base of that fir, and it wasn't hidden from the trained eye either.
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Bounce
Guest
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.
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!
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
Dormant hero!!
gf beranek
Old Schooler
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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.
It's times like this I'm glad to live in town.
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Frans
Guest
we were out of power for a day. My 3000 watt generator sure comes in handy
sotc
Dormant hero!!
wow, they're calling for 3 inches of snow here tonight!
Paul B
I dig hammocks.
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squisher
THE CALM ONE!!!!
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.
http://www.gypoclimber.com/showthread.php?t=4564
Check it out, tell us a little about yourself. Only Paul bites and I think it's the Dutch in him that causes that.
http://www.gypoclimber.com/showthread.php?t=4564
Paul B
I dig hammocks.
bollocks! I said hello first, 7 minutes before you did !
sotc
Dormant hero!!
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!
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olyman
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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
Administrator Emeritus
Pines don't have much of a root ball at all.
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olyman
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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---
