Giant Cedar Tree Splitting Trunk

[JRoth]

Hi all! I have a big beautiful cedar tree on my property and it’s splitting directly down the center of the trunk. The split is getting noticeably deeper down the trunk, over about a year. What steps should I take to care for it and prevent it from getting worse? 

thanks in advance for your help! 

Edited January 19, 2020 by JRoth
Pictures added

[Khriss]

I love Beeches n Cedars, sadly not many of the former around me ( clay ) more importantly We should be planting more rather than worrying if we should be propping up older  / unsafe specimens. K

[Mick Dempsey]

10 hours ago, TMac said:

Concur on Macrocarpa Mick. Strapping it is putting a tissue on a broken limb imh. It's weight could be offset, brought way back & let it go epicormic...

Epicormic? A macrocarpa?

 

How so?

[Khriss]

Drop it, Pulp it, press it into toilet paper n retire 0n the procedes  ?  k

Edited March 18, 2020 by Khriss
............AND plant a nice deodar Obvs !

[Stubby]

7 hours ago, Mick Dempsey said:

Epicormic? A macrocarpa?

 

How so?

Never seen it my self .

[JRoth]

Update on the tree:

Had someone come out and take a look. They want to cut down the right side of the tree & leave the left half. Also said that the root system on the left half has grown up and around and it holding very strongly in place.. he said he’s never seen anything like it before. 
 

Any thoughts on that??

 

thanks all!

[Mick Dempsey]

Take a few pictures from further back please. Give us a bit more context

[AJStrees]

Back in the old days they would have put a few steel straps around it to keep it together. 

 

Not proposing you do that, but many an old tree has been saved with steel straps. Potentially many killed that way too in the end.

[Gary Prentice]

On 18/03/2020 at 11:08, Khriss said:

I love Beeches n Cedars, sadly not many of the former around me ( clay ) more importantly We should be planting more rather than worrying if we should be propping up older  / unsafe specimens. K

Should be doing both where there are suitable sites, provide diversity in age classes and habitats 

[Khriss]

4 hours ago, Gary Prentice said:

Should be doing both where there are suitable sites, provide diversity in age classes and habitats 

Yes!! Thank you Mr Prentise ? you telling me my job or summat ? k

[Gary Prentice]

21 minutes ago, Khriss said:

Yes!! Thank you Mr Prentise ? you telling me my job or summat ? k

Would I dare do that?

Can't help myself from preaching can I?