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Re: Failure Potential of Dead Trees

Subject: Re: Failure Potential of Dead Trees
From: Scott Cullen
Date: Mar 14 2012 21:51:18 

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: antony croft 
  To: UK Tree Care 
  Sent: Wednesday, March 14, 2012 3:27 PM
  Subject: RE: Failure Potential of Dead Trees



  There is a dead oak near my mothers house that has been dead all my life, 
it still has all its limbs! im 40 in june!

  SC Indeed.  I've seen Quercus alba rock hard after decades.  The sapwood 
rots and sort of flakes away.  The heartwood just stands there.  Even 
branches.


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