New tree estimate/help?

[Aaron3018]

I planted this ~3 yr old, ~7 foot Oak tree on the 30th of July. I probably should have waited until it was dormant, but I'm new to this so didn't realise there could be issues with transplanting in the summer.

 

Questions is, by looking at it, do you think the tree will survive and do you have any suggestions about things that look wrong/things I should change. Pics were taken today after watering. Thanks in advance.

[Aaron3018]

3 hours ago, openspaceman said:

Probably not even that much, when I was weeding through plantations I would just snap one leader and leave the tree to get on with it.

It depends what you want from the tree, at the moment it's feathered with full furnish to the ground, in a forest the side branches would become suppressed and die off but an open grown tree is happy to grow coarse and knotty because it's not competing for light. In forestry we would aim to thin such that the remaining trees always had 40% of their length with live wood but below that ideally there should be no branch remains outside of a 4" core, with clear timber laid after that.

 

In a garden it's different but if left fully furnished as it becomes mature sure as eggs eventually someone will come along with a chainsaw and lop lower branches off (because they get in the way of the mower etc.) leaving wounds so large they nearly ringbark the tree.  I like to see them pruned to 20ft if they are to be pruned and done before any branches are over 1" so the wounds occlude quickly

 

 

The stem on the left looks far more sloppy so I'll probably cut that one, do you think the other branches marked in red would be worth cutting too or doesn't matter?

[openspaceman]

1 hour ago, Aaron3018 said:

The stem on the left looks far more sloppy so I'll probably cut that one, do you think the other branches marked in red would be worth cutting too or doesn't matter?

I would wait till I was sure the tree was established

[Aaron3018]

1 hour ago, openspaceman said:

I would wait till I was sure the tree was established

So wait till next winter? 

[openspaceman]

1 minute ago, Aaron3018 said:

So wait till next winter? 

This time next year or maybe late June