g'day,

sadly this is the end resuts of the stupidity of council regulations
and "the save the trees" campagne (as far as i now this has been
policy down sydney way for a very long time). not even in brissy can
you remove dangerous gum trees (and in suburbia they are all
dangerous, just look at recent storms here in brissy).

and in the case of brissy the mayor has said there will be no relaxing
of the policy only trees that they deem pose a risk will be removed,
even with all the evidence that at least 80% of home damage was from
falling trees and major limbs most of them being gum trees.

so i guess the advice is if you don't want to live with the danger
these trees pose, then don't buy a property that has them or is near
them.

the minimum safe distance from these trees is their full grown height
+ 50%, so for a tree that reachs 50 meters heigh then you need minimum
of 75 meters space, for me 100% is the minimum. i lived in rural and
even at that there are no guarantees.

the sad fact is gum trees and suburbia don't mix.

when will a gum tree fall over or drop a major limb?? when nature
chooses for it to do so! as many do this when there is no storm or
wind involved.



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len & bev

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