How very, very sad...
How very, very sad...
I've gone to find myself. If I get back before I return, make sure I stay here.
When I see lovers' names carved into a tree, I don't think it's cute. I think it's strange how so many people take knives on a date.
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This is a terrible thing. Big trees can provide a very deceptive sense of security. We had a maple tree about 4' in diameter. It was so badly rotted I wouldn't even lean a ladder on some of the branches.
The bigger in diameter a tree gets the more risk there is for internal damage. Next time you are in the woods and find a down tree of a good size look at it carefully. You will probably find signs of internal damage. I feel for the family.
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This is just awful, my prayers go out to the family.
"Over the mountains of the Moon, Down the valley of the Shadow, Ride, bodly ride", the Shade replied, "If you seek for Eldorado!" - Edgar Allen Poe
Horrible! 10' tall and 5' wide? That's one fat stocky tree!
Lots of sad news lately. It hurts to hear these things even more around the holidays.
Sometimes you can tell and other times not at all without special testing. I live in Fl also and removed every tree on my proper that I thought looked suspect. A year or so later we had a large tree fall (blessed that it caused no damage to life or property. The tree looked completely healthy on the outside and was fully green. Inside at the base turned out to be hollow with only about an inch thickness on the wall. I have a picture somewhere as it seemed so amazing to me, will post if I can find it. My heart goes out to the parents for this loss.Originally Posted by Xtrm tj
No way to tell most likely if that tree was a danger. It's one of those cases, wrong place at the wrong time.
This family will be in my thoughts.
A tragic event that will be with the family forever. I am saddened for them.
This past Summer I was with a friend who hung his new hammock from a beetle killed lodge pole pine about 10" in diameter. I heard a loud thunk and looked over to see that the tree broke off at the ground and had come down on my friend as he was hanging in the hammock. It was a double whammy as he hit the ground hard, and then had the tree come down and hit him in the head. At first it seemed funny until I realized he had really taken a hard blow to the head, where a knot was quickly beginning to grow. This event really drove home to me the importance of carefully checking the trees you hang from, as well as overhanging widow makers which can easily break off in a wind storm.
How very sad indeed. I would be devastated to find my child, or any child like that.
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I used to live in FL the oaks there are especially fragile to rott and bugs, remember winter there doesn't kill off these bugs and if it does get cold at all they just burrow deeper into the trees. But even just lots of rain storms can cause a tree to come down in FL. I have seen big oaks split right in half.
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Of rocks and trees, of skies and seas--His hand the wonders wrought.
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