Drought taking it's toll

[thughes]

Looks like I'm WFH until the city shows up in the morning to get their damned tree out of my driveway. At least there's no property damage.....glad my daughter parked the truck up by the house last night to leave me room to get the bike by.

I just talked to the city forestry service guy (apparently he lives around the corner from me and stopped in when he drove by and saw the mess), he said this type of tree is susceptible to splitting during prolonged periods of drought. I'd say he's correct.

Told him I want a nice maple tree to replace this POS.

[WARFAB]

Hoping we get enough rain to help a little this week. I've never heard of trees splitting in dry conditions.

On the bright side, the people living close to lake Ontario are probably happier this year.

[Cgrutt]

Wow glad nobody was hurt and no damage good luck.

[Norm DeGuerre]

yowser ..!!
good thing you have the dial in option for work

soooo ..
where's the split ..?
i the photo, all I see is one contiguous trunk ..??

[thughes]

The middle limb in the photo was actually a crotch which apparently rotted and split off the trunk, if you look closely at the trunk above where that middle branch appears to be "connected" you'll see that the main trunk above that branch appears white....that's the exposed wood (the split was @ 6 vertical feet long). The lower branch was just a branch that snapped off the main trunk, looks like it was rotten where it attached.

[Norm DeGuerre]

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I just talked to the city forestry service guy (apparently he lives around the corner from me and stopped in when he drove by and saw the mess), he said this type of tree is susceptible to splitting during prolonged periods of drought. I'd say he's correct.

Told him I want a nice maple tree to replace this POS.

well, you are far better off than me ..
around here all they want to do is destroy my trees
we are on Round #3 today, as a matter of fact