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The two sketches on the left in Fig. 6 show trees whose butts are unnecessarily loaded by bending, because the centres of gravity of the crowns are not over the root stocks.
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Mattheck, G.C. (1991). How the Tree Minimizes Its External Loading. In: Trees. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-58207-3_3
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