Trees, Shrubs and Conifers: 50+YO Modesto Ash trunk splitting?, 1 by Twincol

Twincol wrote:
OK, folks, what do you think here? Many many many years ago (30-or-so, I think) a similar specimen on the west side of my house split and was removed by the city. As I sat there at a street-side yard sale under the tree I could hear it screeching back and forth in the breeze and then saw the split. And it WAS split. What an experience THAT was!!

Keep in mind that these trees are generally infected and dying throughout town of some kind of species-specific disease. So they would be vulnerable to failure. This tree is infected. Note also that there are several large wounds where branches have broken off.

Now this tree appears to be splitting. This photo illustrates the apparent beginning of that splitting; a "dent" up the trunk on the south side of the trunk. This "dent" is relatively new.

Linda