Yes been out there today, plenty of pics coming.
I even spoke to a guy who was there when it came down. He had a pic in his cell phone and no fence plus the green bin was tipped over.
The news report here is wrong with the time.
Tree fell Tuesday 12 February 2008 between 3pm and 4pm.
Also some important notes to read here,
I bolded them, imagine that, get a consultant arborist who says "they're old" ... and that's it, they're dying of old age. Wow.
And more tests and greasing to take place. Even though to now it's been a lay down misere that there's nothing conclusive and lots of guess work.
Geriatric jacarandas keel over | The Courier-Mail Quote:
Emma Chalmers
February 13, 2008 11:00pm
THE mystery of New Farm Park's falling jacaranda trees has been solved after consultation with an aborist? they're old.
An independent arborist's report prepared for Brisbane City Council has revealed the trees are the jacaranda equivalent of "geriatrics" and are coming to the end of their natural lives.
Fresh safety fears were raised yesterday when council officers discovered a large tree experts had previously declared "safe" had crashed to the ground on Tuesday night.
Despite the diagnosis, it will be at least another two weeks before council decides which of the seven suspect trees it will remove, with Deputy Mayor David Hinchliffe calling for a fresh round of testing in the aftermath of the latest fallen tree.
"The seven trees that were earmarked for investigation don't include this one here that's already come down," he said. "That causes me to doubt that the experts so far have got it right."
The arborist's report said the trees were planted in 1914 and, being a relatively new species to Australia from their native Brazil at the time, their life expectancy was unknown.
In the past 16 months, four jacarandas have fallen, including one that fell and crushed a car in July last year, and three have been removed.
"We want to preserve every jacaranda we possibly can, we love the jacarandas in New Farm Park, but at the same time for this park to be useful and usable, this park needs to be safe," Cr Hinchliffe said.
Inspections of some of the trees found that there was a little decay at the surface, but their roots had decayed more as they became deeper.
Testing will continue on the suspect patch of trees with an ultrasound-like exam in which a microdrill will bore into the tree to record the stages of its decay.
Council has planted about 100 new jacarandas in the past 20 years as part of a replacement program and Cr Hinchliffe says that project needs to be accelerated.
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This is the pic that was with the paper article, thought I'd grab it for this post as they tend to disappear.