Oak tree dying??

[Limbliner]

About 1/3 of this oak tree has dead limbs and part of the trunk of the tree where it forks out.
I noticed these insect holes. Might this be some kind of borer, and is there anything I can do besides remove the dead from this tree?View attachment 305216View attachment 305217

 

[Zale]

Tree looks to be silver maple. Prune out the dead portions and call it good.

 

[ATH]

I hope you aren't expecting anybody to pay you for tree work.

Learn to ID trees before you do. At least get the genus right.

Being an arborist is more than running a chainsaw... I know this is 101, but in the 2 posts you asked 2 very elementary questions leaving the impression you are about to take somebody for a ride without knowing what you are doing. If you are asking the questions so you can do the work for your own trees, I'll apologize in advance

 

[Limbliner]

Thank you!

I appreciate all the feedback.
I joined the site because I am eager to learn.
Thank you to all of you.

 

[ATH]

Happy to help anybody learn...I have learned a lot here myself. My point is that there is a pretty base of knowledge one should get BEFORE starting - sometimes that comes from books / classrooms / online and sometimes it comes from experience under another professional...best is a combination of both. Keep looking to learn - I certainly don't want to discourage that!

 

[B Harrison]

Yeah, maples are pretty easy to work on, keep he dead out, make clean cuts and try to angle them to shed water away from the tree, looks like that might up and out of the tree rather than out and up. If this is the case it will be a problem for some time to come. Is the tree near your home or any buildings that it could damage or out in your yard? You might take a serious look at the future of that tree if its close enough to something important to damage it.

Be quite careful with a chainsaw. It seems that experience with a saw goes hand in hand with the basics in tree ID, and cutting a limb out of a tree is in fact not part of the basics at all and can be a few kinds of tricky. I know hearing people to tell you be careful may seem odd, but many people with " lots of experience with a chainsaw" get very seriously injured.