I've been through about 9 hurricanes, starting with Frederick in 1979, and while I've seen pine straw slammed into a treetrunk, I've never seen anything that big through a tree.
That happened in Jasper, Alabama during the super tornado outbreak of April 3rd, 1974 but it was a 2" X 4" through a utility pole. I cannot imagine what types of physical conditions/properties were present for this too occur, but I'd prefer to be in deep hole when it is happening. I am not sure if it is still listed, but this incident was in one of the "Ripley's Believe It Or Not" books back in the day.
Palm trees are in the grass family and ape shit tough. When removing them, you use a chain saw strong enough to run a 20" bar/chain to cut 10-12 inch palm with. When you you get into the tree a bit, you have thousands fibers putting the brakes to the chain. Palms are basically big giant, wet, compressed ropes. Afterwards, you need to disassemble and clean the saw because palms are very acidic and will eat holes into your crank case and/or oil tank.
Palm trees (family Aracaceae) are not grasses (family Poaceae or Gramineae). Typical of trees and most flowering plants, palms have apical (located at the tip of shoots) meristems while grasses have basal (located at the base of the plant, or root crown) meristems, one of the defining characteristics of grasses.
I've been through about 9 hurricanes, starting with Frederick in 1979, and while I've seen pine straw slammed into a treetrunk, I've never seen anything that big through a tree.
ReplyDeleteThat happened in Jasper, Alabama during the super tornado outbreak of April 3rd, 1974 but it was a 2" X 4" through a utility pole. I cannot imagine what types of physical conditions/properties were present for this too occur, but I'd prefer to be in deep hole when it is happening. I am not sure if it is still listed, but this incident was in one of the "Ripley's Believe It Or Not" books back in the day.
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ReplyDeleteAfter Hugo in Charleston I saw about 30ft of telephone pole stuck in the side of metal building, the pole came from 200yrds away.
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Palm trees are in the grass family and ape shit tough. When removing them, you use a chain saw strong enough to run a 20" bar/chain to cut 10-12 inch palm with. When you you get into the tree a bit, you have thousands fibers putting the brakes to the chain. Palms are basically big giant, wet, compressed ropes. Afterwards, you need to disassemble and clean the saw because palms are very acidic and will eat holes into your crank case and/or oil tank.
ReplyDeletePalm trees (family Aracaceae) are not grasses (family Poaceae or Gramineae). Typical of trees and most flowering plants, palms have apical (located at the tip of shoots) meristems while grasses have basal (located at the base of the plant, or root crown) meristems, one of the defining characteristics of grasses.
DeleteI'll stick with spruce, tamarack and popple over that crap.
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