26/07/2018
After responding to and making safe the second "storm damaged" (quotation marks due to the lack of any storm) tree in as many days I wanted to share this to shed a bit more light on the problem.
Summer Branch Drop is a poorly researched phenomenon broadly characterised by long branches breaking from large mature trees with no obvious visible defects, following extended dry periods in summer. There has been little scientific investigation into the failure mechanism, but there is an accumulat...