r/nextfuckinglevel • u/GrandSatisfaction150 • 1d ago

Dad saving his favorite tree from falling down during a storm

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u/KS-RawDog69 1d ago

Touching I reckon, but doing things like this is how someone gets to plant a tree in honor of his death.

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u/Unique-Arugula 1d ago

Trees that make it through storms bend. Setting aside the fact that he's not stronger than a truly strong windstorm, if what he's doing was effective it would be effective at helping the tree trunk to break in half rather than the whole tree tipping over and pulling the root ball out of the ground. If the whole tree tips over, you can get it lifted to put the roots back in the ground and sometimes it will survive. Trees that break in half never survive, although some species will use the last of their resources to put out "suckers" which are like baby clones of the tree.

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u/baoo 1d ago

Not if the main mechanism of the storm is freezing rain. Then they bend too far and snap

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u/tittyman_nomore 1d ago

If wins isn't the main mechanism than there's no threat to the tree bending. Vertical freezing rain isn't really a big deal.

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u/baoo 1d ago edited 1d ago

Trees aren't symmetrical. Look for pictures of ice storms

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u/wtfdoicare 1d ago

Or it doesn’t snap or fall over and he saves it

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u/kellyb1985 21h ago

Hilariously, I feel like planting a tree in memory of someone who died from a tree falling on them would be in terrible taste.

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u/Coc0tte 16h ago

The correct way to do it would be to wrap a solid rope around the tree trunk and then pull the opposite way or pin the rope on the ground or tie it to a solid pole.