Tree fail in real time

[Tom Dunlap]

@moss you are so fortunate to be in many of the right spots at the right time

 

[evo]

My favorite tree fail happened 3 years ago. I was out in the woods sleeping in my tree hammock, around 3 in the morning heard a cascading failure, one tree broke and took down two others. I tried to find it in the dark (with my headlamp) but couldn't. I was mystified, it was so loud, it seemed pretty close. When I got up in daylight I found the site further away than I thought by the sound of the cataclysm. Dead standing oak tipped over and took out a couple white pines. The oak had a nice array of oyster mushrooms on it which I had for breakfast. I went back later the same day to collect some more oysters and a white-tailed deer doe had given birth to a fawn and stashed it under the downed oak. Later the same day she had a second, I've since watched those twin fawns grow up.
-AJ

Sounds like the oyster mushrooms weren’t the only ones you ate that day.

Bliss

 

[moss]

Sounds like the oyster mushrooms weren’t the only ones you ate that day.

Bliss

Can't say I've ever consumed psychoactive fungi but yes nature can make you feel that way sometimes ;-)
-AJ

 

[JD3000]

Evo's makin omelets again...

 

[dunderpaps]

i wouldn't believe this if i didn't see it but i watched a squirrel take a crazy jump from the top of the tree i was in to the top of dead tree that was probably about 40ft high which then keeled over,just as it was about to hit the ground the squirrel jumped off and scurried off but it taught me a trees breaking point could be the weight of a two pound squirrel

 

[New2trees]

i wouldn't believe this if i didn't see it but i watched a squirrel take a crazy jump from the top of the tree i was in to the top of dead tree that was probably about 40ft high which then keeled over,just as it was about to hit the ground the squirrel jumped off and scurried off but it taught me a trees breaking point could be the weight of a two pound squirrel

Funny you mention squirrel's, yesterday I was looking at a tree and boom something smacked into the ground about 6 feet away so hard I could feel the impact...looked down to see what it was and there was a squirrel not moving...about 2 seconds later he got up staggered sideways a few feet, then ran full speed and straight up the trunk!