Tree experts

[Adgerc15]

Got home from the gym this morning and a big healthy tree branch is laying on the ground.

This is a rental, I do not know what has been done for this tree before I lived here but I have been watering it in this heat. I cut it back in mid June a little bit.
This branch was healthy as can be, is it heat stress that caused this?

-it kinds looks like its been choked out from the branch below growing over it, not sure...

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[Cajun Blake]

If a tree branch falls in your front yard and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound ?


probably just mother nature being mother nature

[Mac...]

Looks like the tree just pruned itself...
Survival of the fittest and the bigger limb is a bully!

[Randy]

Looks like it was rotten to me.

[Frawg]

It's a Bradford Pear. These trees are worthless. Very brittle but they grow fast, thats why people plant them. This is just my experience as I have 2 in my front yard and I would love to take a chainsaw to them but the wife won't let me.

Not an expert but it looks like it's rotted out??

[yaqui]

It's a Bradford Pear. These trees are worthless. Very brittle but they grow fast, thats why people plant them. This is just my experience as I have 2 in my front yard and I would love to take a chainsaw to them but the wife won't let me.

Not an expert but it looks like it's rotted out??

All of this.

[Lady Archer]

Bradford pears are notorious for this. They have extremely weak limbs. Trash trees.

[Birddog66]

They do not seem to handle drought very well either. Might have something to do with it.

[tbeak]

yea i would say that you had got some form of rot, and dont notice because it on the leaves because the trees vascular is just under the bark so all the wood is already dead. looks like you just got to much weight on that limb. plus the bradford pear tree is not a strong tree to start.

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Several other people posted the same thing before i could hit submit.

[HEADHUNTER71]

Bradford pears are notorious for this. They have extremely weak limbs. Trash trees.

wat he said ^^^^^^ my brother has 2 of em in his front yard, one is dead the other is dying !

[Humper]

It's a Bradford Pear. These trees are worthless. Very brittle but they grow fast, thats why people plant them.

^^^^This^^^^

Bradford pears are very poor. they have fairly short life for a tree and their growth structure causes the limbs to easily break at the main trunk. Most of the time, you will see them break during an ice storm when the limbs can't handle the weight. Since its rental...leave it alone. If it was your house, I'd cut it down and pull the root ball out and replace with a quality tree like a red oak or live oak.

[TexasHuntinGirl]

bradford pears will break just for the heck if it...it will bush back out after we get through this drought...

[HuntinFrk]

maybe it was tired of looking at that mavs sign and was attempting to fall on it but failed.

[18ncs]

Bradford pears do that. Grow fast, fall apart fast

[cricman]

You don't need a tree expert, but rather a physicist. This is clearly a case of a gravitational anomoly in action, drawing the limb from the tree to the ground!


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