Opinions needed please on this ash

[MattyF]

Ok been asked for opinions on this ash today, as mr dryad puts it I think it's goosed really don't want to fell though so halo the surrounding sycamores and Reduce or pollard are the options I want to advise but how much if at all ?.... Bearing in Mind I have taken off 40%of the height when the tree failed after it lost half of it's crown when a stem failed... This was a very impressive tree before then ! Any way some photos!

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Old wound of stem

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Interesting ?

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Reason for work , this was taken not at peak tourist or Childs play time!also busy high street other side.

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[Mark Bolam]

I'd pollard it Matty, but then I always try not to stray too far from my skill set!

[MattyF]

I'm doing it with a crane mate if I do,One long drag!

[Fungus]

Matty,

Has the (annual ?) bracket fungus on the first photo been identified and with it the type of wood rot it causes ?

[Matthew Arnold]

Although the picture showing the fungi is a bit poor. I'm going to say Dryad's Saddle. It has the tiers and the fairly fresh single one at the top of the rot column.

[Fungus]

Although the picture showing the fungi is a bit poor. I'm going to say Dryad's Saddle. It has the tiers and the fairly fresh single one at the top of the rot column.

 

Matt,

Or Pholiota squarrosa ?

[MattyF]

Ranger mat gets the prize ! Not the true saddle though hey Hama!, I was told though when we reduced the tree about 7 years ago inonotus was the cause for the failure?

[Fungus]

Ranger mat gets the prize ! Not the true saddle though hey Hama!, I was told though when we reduced the tree about 7 years ago inonotus was the cause for the failure?

 

Matty,

Why ? Polyporus squamosus is a completely different ball game then Inonotus hispidus. It's like saying a crow is closely related to a blue tit, because they both are birds or that MattyF and RangerMatt are two of a kind, because they both have Matt in their first name.

[MattyF]

No sorry you misunderstand it's polypourus squmasosus in the photo...that's been flowering for approx 3 years... On the stem that failed inonotus was present apparently ... hence why the tree was reduced and also you can see day light on the second photo to from the hole in the first ...

[MattyF]

No sorry you misunderstand it's polypourus squmasosus in the photo...that's been flowering for approx 3 years... On the stem that failed inonotus was present apparently ... hence why the tree was reduced and also you can see day light on the second photo to from the hole in the first ...

 

I am intrigued to know the thoughts on squamosus inhabiting the stem though I guess well over 35% of the outer radiuos does not exist the middle is completly hollow though.... But I recon higher up is sound.. Already felled one big inonotus tree on that site and another with a few infected branches that turned out not to bad was left as a pollard but subsequently died...