Larch tree work advice/recommendations

[lukemoves]

Hello everyone, I was wondering if you would be kind enough to take a look at these picture that I have taken of a larch tree and could recommend the work - if any - to be carried out.

 

The owners of the tree have expressed these concerns about the tree:

 

1. Close proximity to the house and the potential of it falling onto the house.

2. The size of the tree being too large for the garden.

3. It being sited on the side of a river bed which usually floods with heavy rain. They are worried about root heave here and unstable roots.

 

I think the owners are becoming slightly intimidated by the the tree and are concerned that it may fall onto the house. Upon further inspection I found there to be a dead area near the base of the trunk where the bark has not sealed over yet. This looks to be an old wound of some sort, perhaps from torsion. Please see the Images below. There are a few dead hanging branches suspended in the canopy and a significant amount of dead wood. I was waiting to see if any fungal fruiting bodies were growing from the tree but none have been present so far.

 

It is a really beautiful tree in my opinion and I would like to do the best job for it. It is approximately 15 meters from the house. The tree is in Cumbria, England.

Please contact me if you would like any additional information or if there is anything that i have left out. Thanks in advance.

[NickinMids]

Is there much deadwood in it

[WesD]

Could you not climb it and remove the deadwood? From what you say though I have a feeling the happy outcome for them though would be tree removed. Shame!!

 

 

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[NickinMids]

Sorry. Didn't read OP properly

[AA Teccie (Paul)]

Tree crown looks a bit sparse / thin, maybe stressed, maybe early autumn (just remembered Larch is deciduous )

 

Peoples perception of fear is very real, to them, sometimes n insurance adverts on TV with trees on houses isn't helpful.

 

The damage to the stem base could be old fire damage perhaps.

 

TBH I suggest do nowt, unless by doing a "little bit of summat" it would allay their fears n let them coexist a little more harmoniously.

 

Sorry, Sunday night ramblings, not terribly helpful

 

Paul