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08-05-2024, 04:19 PM | #1 | ||
DIY Tragic
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I think the area’s poor soil/subsoil is harder for trees to get a grip into, then they are forced upwards by needing light from overshadowing buildings, the built structures also channel/deflect breezes. Less buildings and more thickets of trees would be the ideal - but it won’t happen. Limb drop from redgums and bluegums seems to happen more after heavy pruning (large limbs, back to the trunk) in hot summers, I can’t quite work out the correlation but have seen it happen enough times.
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08-05-2024, 06:08 PM | #2 | |||
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When its wetter than normal the trees are good but after continually hot, dry conditions they will drop. That's why up along the NSW coastline over Summer with the regular rainfall, cutting grass happens more often with no leaves on the ground, whereas its the opposite here, the heat tells the trees to take all the water and shed bark and leaves. The ground is left with no grass because of this, so I'm left with picking up leaves and not having to cut grass in Summer. $ydney's sandstone layering should allow plenty of bite for tree roots to hook into but being sedimentary rock, it will easily part under high wind stress due to the cities well known southerly busters particularly along that funnel strip of Pittwater. Sailing in that body of water can be super sketchy at times.
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08-05-2024, 06:42 PM | #3 | ||
DIY Tragic
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It’s typically late December here. 35°+ day, no afternoon breeze then at about 4:30-7PM (DST) “CRAAACK!”…
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NSW Upper Hunter in October can be brutal working outside. There's a reason why we head for NSW after it's Summer and before the Vic one truly begins.
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