Australian skyscrapers in the SoCal desert.

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Doesn’t get any better than 5’ DBH dead dry hard and full of bolts!

I started trying to figure out why some stay up and some fall.

Noticed the stump and the dead one next to it are connected. Weird.
 
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Anyone live there?
Yeah. In a mobile, not that shack. The one that fell crushed the “garage” and just brushed the porch.

The dead one leans E toward the road and will reach well across it if it goes. Prevailing winds are from the West. Maybe next winter I’ll get it…it has a twin down the road too. They scare me. (Not to take down, but for them to fall on someone)
 
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Incredibly brutal images.

And no regen? That's it?

Once they're gone they're gone?

Where I live there would be seed and sucker regen up the ying-yang.

Rad!
These pics are what’s pretty common down here. I should have pics somewhere but will probably have to take more. That is something I have wondered about a lot. There are quite a few trees that one limb or most of the tree seemingly died but then new “fuzz” will sprout from the trunk. Looks pretty weird. Always wonder what almost killed them.
 
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@gf beranek here is some regen. Almost all have significant damage down low from fire. I don’t know if it was intentional or not. I believe that plays a big part in them staying standing or not…somewhat obviously…

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Not a lot of chainsaw skill around…
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So reading online it seems river red gum is a 3-15c tree. 37-104f. We get freezes here a few times in the winter and summers are well over 104 for long periods. All summer…

Water might also be an issue. Pretty dry here and they probably mostly depend on irrigation canals which can be on or off for whatever reason. Then this winter we got a lot of rain and wind, hence the toppling scrapers.

A couple years ago I removed some smaller eucs that beetles got but I haven’t seen them since. They were drought stressed.
 
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I have been driving by this stand a lot for years. There is one down right through the middle of that mobile home you can barely see in the back right. Local college ag training area I think.


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Whittled a fallen and stood back up stump yesterday. Got lucky on the face cut. 36” .404 square skip got through two tanks before it really lost feed and started cutting curved. Probably ate a nail or two.

Sposed to take the dead one down next. The big job with all the monsters got pulled from me and given to a “real” tree guy.

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Kilt a yard Euc today and looked at trimming some country ones. Also tree sightseeing.

This ancient monument is probably 4’ diameter. Might stand forever (probably), might fall tomorrow. Check out that grain…hard. The axe rings.

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