#traq

Looking for structural failures in trees has been a recent hobby i’ve picked up this winter. The first two photos are tridominant structural failure with a red oak, included bark and lean occurs in codominant leads commonly, Included bark at a narrow crotch is not structurally sound and with growth and lean spreading can be fatal at a certain size. Usually this occurs in trees that have been openly grown but are not adapted to that growth patter, forest grown trees  are often subject to failure if the tridominant is a product of an old stump suckering back from logging campaign, non managed pollarding on old properties, Or just having similar species growing close enough that they naturally graft forming weak connections(multipithed at the base). It’s hard to say how this happened but each dominant lead has begun falling in different directions and a few fallen trees have fallen within the crotch. 

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Did I mention that Traq is beautiful and I love her