to fell or not to fell??

[Budebob]

We have just looked at a beautiful holm oak for a customer. It is on their drive way and starting to rot, it clearly had a crown reduction a few years ago and now rot is working its way through the left hand side of the tree. It is now hollow in the main trunk with a fair amount of rot in the wood, mycelium under the bark and quite abit of bark loss lower down with a curly bracket fungus which looks like dried up honey fungus (but cant be sure).

The customer wants it down as they are worried it will fall at some point, personally i would leave it a couple more years and have suggested this to the customer but they are pretty adamant.

Any suggestions? as i dont know if i can bring myself to take down such a good lookin tree!

[David Humphries]

Hello Bob.

 

It's usually helpful to add photos to this type of query.

Height, lean, targets and id of fungi are all things to consider, but difficult to form an opinion without any visual aid.

 

 

 

 

 

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[Budebob]

i know but camera and computer seem to be having some sort of tiff at the moment!