{"id":5597,"date":"2021-11-08T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-11-08T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mechanicalmalarkey.com\/?p=5597"},"modified":"2021-11-08T06:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-11-08T11:00:00","slug":"be-careful-what-tree-you-park-under","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/2021\/11\/08\/be-careful-what-tree-you-park-under\/","title":{"rendered":"Be Careful What Tree You Park Under"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If you&#8217;re somewhere with a lot trees, you sometimes need to be careful where you park your car. You might think that the only danger a tree could pose to your car would be a falling branch, but that it usually only happens during a storm. I was doing a brake job at a friend&#8217;s apartment, and had set the car up on jack stands under a tree, because it was out of the way of the other cars parked there, and found out it wasn&#8217;t a safe spot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mechanicalmalarkey.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/2021_11_08_01.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mechanicalmalarkey.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/2021_11_08_01.jpg?w=600\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5601\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It was a windy day, and I quickly found out why nobody parked on that side, especially at that time of year. Every gust of wind would bring a shower of walnuts. My table full of tools and parts took a few hits, and a brand new brake rotor I&#8217;d set out got a nice rotting walnut hit. While they grow with a soft outer covering, the walnut inside is still very hard, making it basically a small rock falling thirty feet. I&#8217;d heard a few hit the car, but then one landed a lucky hit on the windshield. Fortunately the windshield was already cracked, so it already was in need of replacement, but this added a lot more damage. Always be careful what kind of tree you park under.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator is-style-wide\" \/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">New blog post or video every Monday, plus pictures throughout the week on <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/facebook.com\/mechanicalmalarkey\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a>, <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/mech_malarkey\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/instagram.com\/mechanicalmalarkey\">Instagram<\/a>!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCasCW0ImD3UuLeMu5RAZCXg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Watch Mechanical Malarkey on YouTube!<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mechanical Malarkey <a href=\"https:\/\/mechanicalmalarkey.com\/merchandise\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">T-shirts, hats, and stickers<\/a> are available to order!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">-Dan<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re somewhere with a lot trees, you sometimes need to be careful where you park your car. You might think that the only danger a tree could pose to your car would be a falling branch, but that it usually only happens during a storm. I was doing a brake job at a friend&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-5597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-damage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5597\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}