@go-tazz wrote:
@eol-products wrote:They say the odds of being killed by a tree are 1 in 10 000 000.
If it's a Gumtree then those odds are a lot lower as they say a Gum tree will drop it's branches sooner or latter
and that's why they call them widow makers.
There are gum tree forest in our area and there are enough fallen branches that people can get from certain
areas to keep the entire region in firewood and a lot more is sent elsewhere.
I used to walk through one area and in that half hour walk there was many times I heard the groan and then
crack as another branch came down.
Presently with the lack of rain here there could be more trees coming down as it has been windy of late but
the trees are drying out and splitting and that doubles the danger.
The golf course here in the last two year has lost a fair number of trees and they were all Gum trees with one
section losing five in one hit due to a bank caving in as it dried up completely due to the creek losing all of it's
water.
We used to have a Gum next to a flat in Portland and I used to trim it and eventually a heavy branch started
leaning on our roof and one had destroyed a veranda area next door and a few months before we moved out
they cut the whole thing down as a heavy branch took out the fence so it was finally deemed dangerous.
I am confused as to why eucalypts would be considered appropriate in built up areas. Eucalypts drop bark (and limbs), not leaves, so they don't provide sunlight in the (shrinking) winter. Whereas deciduous trees provide shade in the hot months and let the sun through in the cold months. Pertinent if they are planted on the north of the property.
