crane tree
ArboristSite Lurker
working a small overgrown pine commercial timber with a few other wild trees here and there. We cleared out a walking path 1/2 mile long ,9ft wide, weaved in and out of good trees of all types, cleared out the brush,trash took down less desirable trees, cut em all up,let them dry a week or two then burned with some cured pine for heat. in the course of burning, we got a small pile of dead limbs too close to one 8" oak tree about 30 ft. tall and with a really nice spead out canopy. in a case of mismanagement( mine), allowed one of the fires burn the lower 6feet of the trunk to the point where the bark delaminated and popped out away in a small area, not girdleing the tree, but about a patch 5"x4". climbing vines on this tree had already been cut months ago, and were dry, the fire walked right up into the canopy--that doenst appear to have hurt too muchother than some whithered leaves.
---now i notice quite a few of the canopy leaves are turning brown-and these are not the ones scorched by the burning vines--it doesnt look good. im thinking the intensity of the heat for an extended time cooked the juices of the tree and that was that.
---Any chance this tree will lose its leaves, but then recover down the road a few months? in the big picture its just one tree out of a thousand we spared by way of detoured extra work and due caution and care, but jeeze, its really a nice little tree with alot of shade potential,if it lives.
---we managed the cutting/clearing/burning to create a really nice winding path without collateral damage to surrounding trees other than this particular 8"oak, the client is a very nice lady who is amendable to common sense, but ifIF this tree aint going to make it anyway, i am inclined to take it down and place flat in timber floor before final walkthrough.
any feedback appreciated
this is south alabama
---now i notice quite a few of the canopy leaves are turning brown-and these are not the ones scorched by the burning vines--it doesnt look good. im thinking the intensity of the heat for an extended time cooked the juices of the tree and that was that.
---Any chance this tree will lose its leaves, but then recover down the road a few months? in the big picture its just one tree out of a thousand we spared by way of detoured extra work and due caution and care, but jeeze, its really a nice little tree with alot of shade potential,if it lives.
---we managed the cutting/clearing/burning to create a really nice winding path without collateral damage to surrounding trees other than this particular 8"oak, the client is a very nice lady who is amendable to common sense, but ifIF this tree aint going to make it anyway, i am inclined to take it down and place flat in timber floor before final walkthrough.
any feedback appreciated
this is south alabama
