Oak with multiple problems

[treemandan]

Sorry my camera is full o dust, the client is working on getting some pictures of this situation and I am wondering whether it might be good to actually cut one side of a large, mature red oak codom that has developed some sort of wound or mutation that seems to now be a host for shelf fungus. The wound with the rot is on one side of the codom, each lead it close to 3 feet dia stemming from a 5 foot trunk that has a unopened cracked. What to do? What to do? Chop it out now? I can't remember the last time I did something like that.

 

[treemandan]

What is firewood going for this winter?

cash?

 

[NCTREE]

A couple of words stand out to me; codom, mature, and fungus. If you cut the codom out will the mature red oak have enough reserves to defend itself against the wound. Also cutting the the codom could lead to stability problems with the standing leader. Without proper id of the fungus who knows what the cause is and how it will effect the rest of the tree after you cut the codom.

pics please!

 

[BlackOakTreeServ]

Pics??

Beemandan, 'bee'lieve it or not, we need pics 'bee'fore we can add our 2 cents, so bee a good sport and post em or I will buzz off and 'bee'gone....LOLOL

 

[flushcut]

If the one half goes what is at stake? (house, cars, lives) If it is in really bad shape I would go for the removal of the one stem in a effort to save the tree for a while and a removal down the road.

 

[treeseer]

A couple of words stand out to me; codom, mature, and fungus. If you cut the codom out will the mature red oak have enough reserves to defend itself against the wound. Also cutting the the codom could lead to stability problems with the standing leader. Without proper id of the fungus who knows what the cause is and how it will effect the rest of the tree after you cut the codom.

pics please!

+1

 

[treemandan]

Beemandan, 'bee'lieve it or not, we need pics 'bee'fore we can add our 2 cents, so bee a good sport and post em or I will buzz off and 'bee'gone....LOLOL

No no, good fun! I just had pics sent to my email. They were taken by HO from the ground.

 

[treemandan]

This is the fungus on the one side of codom.

 

[treemandan]

 

[BlackOakTreeServ]

No no, good fun! I just had pics sent to my email. They were taken by HO from the ground.

Dan lol,
nice pics, I see what you saying now.
Its hard to say if there's punky, rotten wood behind that fungus...I've seen this on black oaks up in the sierra nevada mountains, some were fine and other's had a lot of rot, enought to break when snow and winds wip up.

You might want to take a hammer or back side of axe and hit around that fungus area seeing if its soft and punky.

If it is soft tell the HO to get that codom down...looks hazardous near that pool.

 

[NCTREE]

the beginning of a sap rot is what it looks like to me.

 

[treemandan]

In the last pic the under lead to the right is the effected lead. In the pic with the fungus on its trunk the malformation has been there for some time. If I cut the lead off I will slice through the effected area to see how many years its has been effected or some #### like that I guess. Taking off the one side still leaves a pretty decent tree, I could have the one side down pretty nice with a cut or two . Its not as close to the pool as it looks and its aimed away from it.

 

[treemandan]

A couple of words stand out to me; codom, mature, and fungus. If you cut the codom out will the mature red oak have enough reserves to defend itself against the wound. Also cutting the the codom could lead to stability problems with the standing leader. Without proper id of the fungus who knows what the cause is and how it will effect the rest of the tree after you cut the codom.

pics please!

Yup. Good thinkin