What shall I do with this oak?

[Woodworks]

I am a member of this forum and am fine with felling but have very limited knowledge about tree management so thought it best to post here.

I am in the process of coppicing one of our farm hedges but we have a really interesting oak that I am not keen to cut down as we don't have many oaks on the farm. It is very one sided and slowly pulling the hedge apart but I would like to keep it but preserve the hedge. How would you set about pruning/cutting back this. I can climb as a rock climber but will not use a chainsaw up a tree but happy to use a silky. I can also cut from a safety cage mounted on the farm tractor that can reach about 3-4 meters up.

[Woodworks]

Thanks for the advise.

 

I shall leave her be.

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

what a great candidate for a hedge pollard!

[Paul Cleaver]

I would take some weight out of it - leaning side of course

[john p]

maybe wang a prop in there somewhere?

[Lee Winger]

leave it alone, trees have a habit of counterbalancing themselves believe it or not..........

[top-climber]

Crown clean, deadwood, maybe remove some crossing branches very light thin if it really needs it and I'd be more interested in the vegetation around the tree that have and are impacting on its ability to spread out and develop properly why has it grown like this and it's balanced itself around this, at the same time don't remove to much shelter and see if there is any formative cuts to make as opposed to a full on reduction to 're-structure'... But ultimately it's down to the arborist to make those best possible decisions... And to confuse it more everyone all acheives the same thing thereabouts but does it differently.

Up to you... I would be minimal it's not hurting anyone.

[Gary Prentice]

Don't remove deadwood, it's a habitat. Trees don't "need" pruning, the axiom of uniform stress means that it shouldn't fall over. Unless its causing issues, leave it alone.

[Warren Stirling]

Don't remove deadwood, it's a habitat. Trees don't "need" pruning, the axiom of uniform stress means that it shouldn't fall over. Unless its causing issues, leave it alone.

 

Well said, leave it in peace.

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its a field tree,

why deadwood it?

where are the targets that they could damage?

good habitat for the buggies too .

leave it b, it will b just fine im sure, tree has been there longer than us to start with

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

this will have the wall out at some stage and be lost as a tree, no tension roots, same as atree on a bank, if no pillar root on compression side it will fail at some stage.

 

why not treat it as a headge pollard and retain it for another 100 years and get some logs from it?