snow + leaves = failure

robinia

robinia

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Montreal got 20cm of snow yesterday. This is my uncles' house and yep, that's norway maple.
I briefly looked for the "why I hate norway maple" thread because this really should belong in there!

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FYI: this tree also failed to a lesser degree during the big ice storm in 1998.
 
Hey Robinia,
do you know where that is in MTL? Looks close to my place, like NDG or Cote-St-Luc or something. Ya snow sucks, especialy since weve been hitting around 20C the last few weeks!
 
One more reason why some trees like sweet gum are not good choices here.

Quite a few hold leaves late. We don't get snow in November often, but when we do, its that tree which gets damaged that way.
 
Could start a "why I hate overextended limbs with included attachments" thread.

speciewswise, willow oaks get trashed here in early december ice cuz they are too dumb to strip by then

sorry for your uncles loss--how ya gonna restore what is left of that leader? with that wound i guess the whole thing's gotta go.
 
Looks like it maybe the city's problem and close enough to the utility wires that it's probably is a write off. They won't try to save it. The only hope is that the city might replant there.
 
It's the city's tree. They spared it after the ice storm, probably not this time!
I haven't been there in years. I'd be curious to see if the failure was related to the previous one; maybe decay or rot form an old ice storm cut or injury. Or maybe this has more to do with hydro cuts.
 
Funny, thats like a few blocks from my place. Small world!

Actualy right after I wrote that message my boss called cause a tree fell in a clients backyard. Nothing dramatic, another Norway maple, maybe 20 inches DBH, forked at the bottom, rotten, failure. Not as much materiel damage as your uncles tough.

I didnt personally see much damage around the city, but I heard through the grapevine about some stuff.
 
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