Treeradar.com.....an Interesting Way to See Tree Rot as it Really Is!

A short time ago, we were awakened on a warm summer day with a phone call from our neighbor. He asked us to check out in our backyard and when we did, we discovered a tree had fallen during the nighttime hours.

Later when we ventured out into the backyard after a recent summer storm, we saw all too easily what had caused the tree to become weak and ultimately fall. We discovered within the tree damage, a part of the tree that had split looked odd. It was somewhat discolored and even powdery in texture.

Immediately I was concerned with the appearance of the inside of the tree and I called my husband over to take a look. Moments after checking it out, he agreed that it did look strange and rightly so, because it appeared to him that the tree was rotting from within.

Upon checking further into the damaged tree, we could see more and more evidence that the tree had in fact begun to rot from the base of the tree, working it's way upwards.

Being somewhat curious about tree rot and what I may have to deal with in my future, other than disposing of tree trunks and limbs all over the backyard, I did some searching and came up with treeradar.com.

Upon first exploration of this site, I discovered some wonderful information in regards to tree decay http://www.treeradar.com/TrunkInspection.htm . The pictures on the "case study" page

http://www.treeradar.com/CaseStudies.html were interesting in that they showed the different types of tree decay that can occur. The pictures are vivid and they gave me a clear indication of what might have caused the tree to split and fall in the middle of the night.

Studying the site pages closely, I immediately tried to identify our damage and the closest I could find was the second picture on the right of the "trunk inspection"

http://www.treeradar.com/TrunkInspection.htm page. The only difference is our tree was much more engulfed in decay to the point of the inside of the tree being full of black crumbly decay.

Now, I realized upon first encountering treeradar.com, that this site is actually a website for a business in Maryland but I found so much information here that I felt it would be beneficial to even those who were not in this business' immediate area to check it out and learn a little about tree rot at the same time.

In fact, I sent the site a note thanking them for their informational site and telling them that they had helped someone....clear across the country! Hopefully those of you who visit this site too, will find some valuable information here that will make tree rot a bit clearer. I know I did!