Couple of close ups of the major union limb to stem of the structure over the road, and yes something i missed yesterday taking photos a truck or bus has hit the bugger!
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Hopefully they won't put in a complaint to the council
as we all know where that might end
The growth striations look normal to me and no evidence of unusal fibre buckling,
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in fact the structure above has more past activity on that front. As all you students of biomechanics will know a right angle bend like that greatly increases the likelihood of shear stress failures.
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I'll post a group of shots of another raintree just up the road from this one to show some of the more seriious problems that can occur in these trees.
SF