Anything need doing to this oak?

[Stereo]

I've got this oak on my land. No targets so no real worries about falling limbs. It's a bit of a landmark and many people have said it looks like its reaching out to grab the sky. I just worry about all the dead material on it.

[Stephen Blair]

In all seriousness, all I would do is keep animals from eating the bark and splodging about under it, it may give them shelter but it won't do the roots any favours. The crows will love perching up there

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

Sorry for the derail Stereo, I should know better in this instance, leaving the tree be is the right thing to do, I was just being Devils advocate, and stirring the pot a little, though I do stand by my opinions perhaps this wasn't the thread to be quite so vocal.

 

stirring or polarizing?

[Andy Collins]

Definitely stirring in this instance Tony. Though our opinions may be "poles" apart

[Stephen Blair]

stirring or polarizing?

 

You need to be at the opposite pole from Andy Tony, so you don't feel so overshadowed:biggrin:

[NI Tree]

In all seriousness, all I would do is keep animals from eating the bark and splodging about under it, it may give them shelter but it won't do the roots any favours. The crows will love perching up there

 

I am with you on that one mr blair

[Andy Collins]

You need to be at the opposite pole from Andy Tony, so you don't feel so overshadowed:biggrin:

 

I am working on improving my shadow

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

You need to be at the opposite pole from Andy Tony, so you don't feel so overshadowed:biggrin:

 

lol, shame neither saw what I was doing in that comment:001_tt2:

 

and no orries on the shadow, andy will always cast a bigger shadow than me:lol:

[jhonnyjigsaw]

give it crown lift pollard letterbox dogtoooth back cut splice xylem that will sought him right out and o yea drive those spikes right in

[Stereo]

No worries Andy, sorry if my post came across as a bit arrsy. Wasn't meant to be.

[Fungus]

1. Enjoyable to look at?????? Beauty is obviously in the eye of the beholder!

2. I do concur that there is a need for habitats to be left but not every where and not every tree. We need to get down the dead and dying, get replanting to replace stock for future generations to enjoy, if not our current veterans will die out with nothing coming on behind. The gap now between veterans and new stock is vast, the old guard will be falling apart with nothing semi mature to follow on.

 

Andy,

1. It certainly is if one looks a bit further than the tree itself and sees the very complicated and rich tree species specific ecosystem even a dead tree represents.

2. Felling and removing this tree would implicate the destruction of a complete habitat for hundreds of insects and some mammals - including bats -and birds or other animals depending on the tree for food and reproduction and needed for the survival of lots of macrofungi by enabling fruiting and dispersion of spores to colonize new trees, because dead trees are stepping stones in the (natural) landscape.

Edited May 9, 2012 by Fungus