Was busily typing a PM to our very own Jim yesterday when my partner yelled out 'Look!' I turned in time to witness a part of a tree in our garden come crashing to the ground. It cut our garage in half and made a pancake out of one of our cars. We're very well insured so it's not a disaster.
The tree itself is a Eucalyptus Regnan...the tallest growing species I believe and I would guess it's around forty metres tall. Ours has grown three trunks out of the one root mass and only one of these trunks has fallen. I'm conservative when I guess it weighs around seven tons...we now have firewood for two lifetimes and mulch for a football field.
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In this pic, the three trunks that are roughly the same thickness are all a single tree, the fourth is a branch. It's the trunk on the far left that has fallen.
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From a different angle you can see that the far right 'trunk' is actually a branch. In this pic, it's the far right trunk that has fallen aross the shed you can see. We have a car parked inside. Well, it
was a car.
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I took this pic standing under a pine tree that was just grazed by the top branches of the trunk that fell. In the approximate centre of the pic you can see another pine that had a whole fork sliced off where the scar is. The Elm to the left has been halved by the pine fork. Our view of the city at night is greatly improved...behind me as I stood to take the pic.
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And finally, the bole. The ladder is a standard six footer or thereabouts. Our main access is just behind the trunk and we've had to crawl underneath the gap you see. Makes the hair stand up on your head. The tree crew was here all day today (Saturday) and they won't finish until Tuesday. I hope that the whole garage will be written off and I can build a purpose built study with proper lighting, plenty of shelves, a huge desk and an extractor fan.
The whole neighbourhood is fine for firewood for next winter too.
Peace.