Big oak making funny noises.

[Stereo]

I've got a big old oak in my garden and it's started making odd cracking noises. Like a creak but louder and deeper. Quite disconcerting as my kids play under it. There is some dead wood I plan to take off ASAP. But it has some big branches sticking out and one of them falling would be serious. Anyone heard this kind of noise before? I wonder if a limb is about to fail. Need a good windy night!

[Stereo]

This branch is the one which worries me most.

[Stereo]

Hmm. Came out the wrong way. Here's hopefully a couple more, also the wrong way.

[Stereo]

Nope.

[Marc]

Good advice should be free and not a few hundred quid, your not commercial are you? It's just finding an impartial arborist with sound knowledge to come round and have a look.

[Stereo]

No, it's a private garden and I have no connection with the arb trade other than owning some woodland which I mess around in. I'll have a ring around and see if anyone can come and have a look.

[Jon Hartley]

Good advice should be free and not a few hundred quid, your not commercial are you? It's just finding an impartial arborist with sound knowledge to come round and have a look.

 

Why would you leave the office, drive to a clients home/business, spend time and resources investigating the situation and then give away your product? If this is something you do regularly you are selling yourself and the industry short.

 

If somebody comes to see your tree and gives you "free" advice I guarantee they recommend works and offer their services for such works. There is an obvious conflict of interests here!

 

Its very nice if you can find someone to do this for you however!!

 

Like I said before, there are a lot of qualified people on this forum and if you upload the right pics, you will get good general advice for a whole host of tree related issues.

[Stereo]

It's the pics I'm struggling with. Got loads on the phone but most won't upload. Maybe they are too big or something.

[face cord]

pollard it

[sloth]

pollard it

 

Certainly an option the beeches as well?

[Marc]

Why would you leave the office, drive to a clients home/business, spend time and resources investigating the situation and then give away your product? If this is something you do regularly you are selling yourself and the industry short.

 

If somebody comes to see your tree and gives you "free" advice I guarantee they recommend works and offer their services for such works. There is an obvious conflict of interests here!

 

Its very nice if you can find someone to do this for you however!!

 

 

I whole heartedly agree with you, unfortunately realistically domestic clients will most of the time get quotations for free and this should include sensible advice, hence why I asked if it was commercial, and being this is a single tree....

There is work to be done on this tree so should not be a waste of time for the person taking a look.

 

Your also right with some better pictures some here may be able to give better advice, I,m interested in the trunk and base looks like something funky is going on there, the noise is probably from one of the beech rubbing? As for felling the beech I,d hold fire until the oak is looked at more closely.