Gotta love Jarts. Bought a set (mint condition) on ebay and introduced my kids to the death darts. They banned them along with real washing machines years ago. If a kid throws them up in the air high and doesn't know enough to get outta of the way, that's natures way of natural selection ensuring stupidity isn't passed down.
Fun fact. My neighbor found an old set when they moved and cleaned out 30 years worth of stuff. Brand new in the box and I figured he could get a good chunk on EBay. When looking them up we found that they are legal to have being grandfathered in but illegal to sell, even on the second hand market. Like anything many things there are fan groups that will skirt the law by selling the individual components legally. And what you do with them is up to you.
100% they didn't have a central lead so they always would split from any ice or heavy snow. Builders used them, grew fast and during storms you would see them coming down, breaking half apart etc. Garbage tree. Builders are now using Cleveland Pears as they have a center main trunk but still not a great tree either. The wild version of the Bradford is the Callery Pear which is invasive and everyone should kill them.
That's Ok, the family just lets him think that he is in charge.
that would be true of anything planted in those conditions, gotta punch through that stuff. fun job. NOT!
You need to come up to Gilbert after a storm and you will see them uprooted. More palo verde than mesquite but there are still some. They are all in subdivisions or streetscapes. Horrible trees for that.
yeah Palo Verdes are not very sturdy anyway and tend to grow in rocky spots so roots aren't like mesquites. I think it's like Matt said, the mesquites aren't grown/watered correctly. where they grow naturally they don't fall over unless the whole bank of a wash collapses.
