Some of the local healthy Norfolk Island Pines blown down by last year's
hurricanes had some internal cracks (wind shakes?), but IMHO not much
different from felled healthy trees. I wonder if other timbers along the
gulf coast or elsewhere exhibit a marked difference whether sawn down or
blown down.

Would someone please discuss or give a reference to what happens inside
a falling healthy tree in general and in particular species. Also the
effects of total time spent shaking before falling and how the tree
fell. I assume that trunk weight and root size are factors. TIA


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