Just a beautiful Oak hotel

[Peter Bomen]

not a big one, but a beautiful veteran tree with so much microhabitats…
We were asked to prune the dead wood for safety, so I just took of the wood that I could take by hand or a swing with my lanyard from time to time... For the rest I was just touristing around and enjoying this beautiful tree.

 

 

Edited January 13 by Peter Bomen

[Ohio Tree Hugger]

It has a nice twist going all the way up. It seems like a fun tree to climb, except for the hollow cavity and infested with bees. I had one tree I took down that had about 8 feet of the trunk was bee hive. We didn't get stung thankfully!

[Peter Bomen]

4 hours ago, Ohio Tree Hugger said:

It has a nice twist going all the way up. It seems like a fun tree to climb, except for the hollow cavity and infested with bees. I had one tree I took down that had about 8 feet of the trunk was bee hive. We didn't get stung thankfully!

Yes the twists up there were really nice! The cavities in this tree don’t worry me very much. At some point we might take a little bit of weight from the top, but first I want more growth lower in the tree. There was a young totally sunburned beech next to it, covering the whole lower region of the oak. We removed this do now the oak can lower down a bit.. For the oak I wouldn’t have removed the whole beech already. But the beech removal was the main reason we were there, the oak was a beautiful bonus