{"id":1862,"date":"2014-10-28T01:00:23","date_gmt":"2014-10-28T05:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/?p=1862"},"modified":"2014-10-28T12:39:01","modified_gmt":"2014-10-28T16:39:01","slug":"are-your-trees-hazardous","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/2014\/10\/28\/are-your-trees-hazardous\/","title":{"rendered":"Are Your Trees Hazardous?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Is a hazardous tree lurking in your yard, ready to fall on your house or car?\u00a0Take a few minutes to\u00a0inspect\u00a0trees on your property. Peek over the fence at your neighbor’s trees as well.<\/p>\n

Some property owners\u00a0have an unnatural fear of trees. Well-shaped landscape trees with no dead wood, good growth rate, and a\u00a0full canopy (top)\u00a0are rarely a risk.\u00a0Yes,\u00a0it’s true that\u00a0the healthiest of trees are likely to be injured in a “category”\u00a0hurricane or tornado.<\/p>\n

Tree care goes along with tree ownership. Tree health, like people health, changes as they age. Middle-aged trees are less hazardous than mature trees. Age plus a category storm may inflict enough damage to render a tree hazardous.<\/p>\n

Location is another factor. A tree deemed hazardous, but not growing\u00a0near people, houses, and autos, is\u00a0unlikely to inflict serious injury when it falls. Your insurance company may never hear from you.\u00a0Trees in a public park, along streets,\u00a0or\u00a0in residential\u00a0zones should be inspected, then pruned or removed.<\/p>\n

Trees may show decay or cavities along the main trunk(s) and branches, and timely pruning usually cures most ills. It\u2019s like going to a dentist. A cavity represents wood decay and branch weakness. Decay can be slowed by cleaning out the wound and spraying a pesticide to prevent wood boring insects from habitating.<\/p>\n

Different tree species possess different mechanical strengths and decay mechanisms. Weak wooded species considered\u00a0potentially hazardous include silver maple (Acer saccharinum<\/em>), cottonwood and hybrid poplars (Populus spp<\/em>.), willows (Salix spp.<\/em>), boxelder (Acer negundo<\/em>), ornamental pears (Pyrus calleryana<\/em>), and tree-of-heaven (Ailanthus altissima<\/em>).<\/p>\n

A certified arborist can measure the extent of the tree decay using a Resistograph\u00ae. A hollow tree cavity is not always hazardous. Tree cavities that are surrounded by at least one inch of solid wood per six inches of tree diameter are unlikely to fail.<\/p>\n

Hire only a certified, licensed and insured arborist. Certification is awarded\u00a0through the International Society of Arboriculture (ISA) following extensive study and testing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

                    Is a hazardous tree lurking in your yard, ready to fall on your house or car?\u00a0Take a few minutes to\u00a0inspect\u00a0trees on your property. Peek over the fence at your neighbor’s trees as well. Some property owners\u00a0have an unnatural fear of trees. Well-shaped landscape trees with […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[783,9,616,721,953,1174,601,630,7,1078],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1862"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1862"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1862\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6894,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1862\/revisions\/6894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}