Remove this limb?

[soiset]

Looks like removal to me, but I'd like to get a few more opinions. This branch extends pretty far laterally, mostly over a residential garage. It's the left-most branch in the second photo. Lighting isn't great, but there is no live tissue in the top-middle of the tension zone, only on the sides.View attachment 217164View attachment 217165

ETA: Or bolt it?

 

[Toddppm]

Looks pretty small and close enough to the roof that it wouldn't hurt much if it broke off and bent over. I'd leave it.

 

[soiset]

Yeah, I think it would just be some shingle damage at worse if it broke and hinged, but if it broke and fell off, there could be a little more damage, plus it could peel pretty badly. So, I guess the question is, would it hinge? Also, what about bolting without cabling? I appreciate the input.

 

[mattfr12]

throw a small bolt through it and then you dont have to worry so much about it damaging anything a cable will keep that thing hooked to the tree atleast if it comes off.

id either take it off or cable it. because if i left and that thing fell off i know they would be calling me saying hey didnt you just pruned my tree and now i gotta fix my garage.

 

[soiset]

throw a small bolt through it and then you dont have to worry so much about it damaging anything a cable will keep that thing hooked to the tree atleast if it comes off.

id either take it off or cable it. because if i left and that thing fell off i know they would be calling me saying hey didnt you just pruned my tree and now i gotta fix my garage.

Problem is the geometry is no good for cabling.

 

[Bomber]

If they like the tree I would cable it and maybe screw rod. Like others said if it went the potential damage would not be that bad. Explain to the customer of the potential damage and leave the decision in their hands. If it were my tree I would keep it judging by the pics.

 

[Toddppm]

Don't see limbs break and free fall too often, that's the only way it'd cause much damage. If you do take it off it gives the higher up limbs more room to gain speed and really put a hurting on the garage. Maybe just trim it back to take some weight off.

 

[mattfr12]

Problem is the geometry is no good for cabling.

Ya if you cant set the cable to take the strain off the crotch its not gonna do you much good a tear is worse than just taking the limb off i would just do that.

 

[soiset]

Don't see limbs break and free fall too often, that's the only way it'd cause much damage. If you do take it off it gives the higher up limbs more room to gain speed and really put a hurting on the garage. Maybe just trim it back to take some weight off.

That makes good sense - and will be my plan. What do you think about bolting through the bad part? I'd rather avoid the damage to the good parts, but it would likely prevent a peel.

 

[Toddppm]

Hard to tell from those pics, is where your knee at the bark ridge? Does it look strong or maybe going to peel off? I don't think bolts would do much good without a cable further up.

 

[soiset]

Hard to tell from those pics, is where your knee at the bark ridge? Does it look strong or maybe going to peel off? I don't think bolts would do much good without a cable further up.

The bark ridge is hard to identify on a pecan, but if I were removing the limb, I'd cut from the bottom of the "V" in the picture along a line that just missed my knee there. The bolt wouldn't be for anything but preventing a peel, if I decided to put one in.

 

[ozzy42]

Don't see limbs break and free fall too often, that's the only way it'd cause much damage. If you do take it off it gives the higher up limbs more room to gain speed and really put a hurting on the garage. Maybe just trim it back to take some weight off.

That always puzzled me why some Ins.Cos. insist the HO takes off healthy horizontal limbs over a roof to a 10-20 min. Makes the tree more dangerous. Same with whole trees close to the house.
I'd sleep better with a 60 tree one foot from my house than I would with the same tree 30 feet away. Like you said ,Its all about the momentum.

 

[sgreanbeans]

That's a hard one, either way, would and could be justified. I would leave that up to them, that way, if you leave it, per their request, you are covered..........sort of.

 

[beastmaster]

Like others have said, even if it fell it wouldn't do much damage to the roof. Pecans seem to have a tendency to rip more so then break from my experience. So if you decide to leave it as is, I think I would look into one of those dynamic systems in place of cable. More to slow or redirect it if it was to cut loose some windy night. That along with a regular prunning program to keep it from getting bigger and heavier.
It looks like it'll have to come out some time, but if you could get another 10 years out of it why not? Better to remove it over a few years anyway probably.

 

[capetrees]

If it were over your own house what would you do?:msp_unsure:

 

[soiset]

If it were over your own house what would you do?:msp_unsure:

I would drink some beer.

 

[ozzy42]

If it were over your own house what would you do?:msp_unsure:

That's easy ,when life gives you pecan trees,make pecan pies.:hmm3grin2orange:

 

[treeseer]

If you do take it off it gives the higher up limbs more room to gain speed and really put a hurting on the garage. Maybe just trim it back to take some weight off."

Simple solution.

Good laterals to cut back to halfway out both branches. Removing the whole thing would be very bad long-term--that wound would never heal, just rot, making a worse hazard over time.

 

[treemandan]

If you do take it off it gives the higher up limbs more room to gain speed and really put a hurting on the garage. Maybe just trim it back to take some weight off."

Simple solution.

Good laterals to cut back to halfway out both branches. Removing the whole thing would be very bad long-term--that wound would never heal, just rot, making a worse hazard over time.

I agree. I would stand on the roof with a pole saw. Maybe toss some Nerex in because of the crotch. Either that or pull a Dan Murphy on it.

 

[soiset]

I removed the two outermost branches.View attachment 218040View attachment 218041