On Sunday, April 9, 2023 at 10:25:29 AM UTC-4, Sonny wrote:
On 4/6/2023 8:15 PM, DerbyDad03 wrote:
The tree is hollow and the top of trunk leans towards the
road.
Seems someone trimmed the limbs, as evidenced on other trunks. They trimmed the limbs too close to the trunk, hence the cut areas rotted, allowing better access by woodpeckers. A properly trimmed limb would be less apt to rot or rot so fast, but
usually heal over itself. Another aspect of limb trimming is the time of year the limbs may have been trimmed.
If the tree is in the right of way of the road, maybe the local authorities will remove that particular tree. Give them a call? If it were the local authorities that trimmed the limbs in the first place, then, yeah, drive faster.
Sonny
Getting the local authorities to trim right-of-way trees is next to impossible around
here. There are so many old growth trees - dead, alive and of unknown condition -
in our right-of-ways that that's all they would be doing, year round. Heck, the number
of trees is one of the main reasons we bought our house in this neighborhood 35 years ago.
Here's an example of the result of my asking that a right-of-way tree be trimmed.
I asked at least 4 times over the past 3 years.
https://i.imgur.com/cpGo543.jpg
That's SWMBO's car, parked where I park 90% of the time.
The ironic part was that there was a huge project to trim back trees by our electric utility about 5 years ago. The limb that fell on SWMBO's car wasn't touched because it wasn't near any wires - until it came down. It took out
the power to my house and about 4 more houses east of mine.
That's also the second of our Honda's that's been crushed by a tree. The
first one was mine when I was parked at work.
https://i.imgur.com/5q5ZCCU.jpg
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