Very large oak / Root failure

[Ashes_Firewood]

  Thomas Hutchinson said:

@ Ashes Firewood,

 

Advice on how to separate the root plate from main bole ?

 

Yep, if it was a flatish field I'd push it over with the tractor then get a wire rope round it but bothered its going to end up going down the hill through the wall and take the tractor with it ha ha.

[treedave]

  Ashes_Firewood said:

I have a large oak, similar to yours but it's fallen off a rock face and taken the whole root plate with it. And it's now at the top of a steep hill just to make things even more dangerous

 

 

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Can you get round the back of the trees in the photo with a winch/tractor?

Rig a wire from above leave tight and anchored to various trees. If you want peace of mind about the plate not taking off once the butt is off, cut threads out on the plate and use these to secure the end of the line. Pm me if it doesn't make sense, easier drawn/ talked thru than written!

 

 

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[Ashes_Firewood]

Yes I can get up to the trees above to use as anchoring. Thanks for that

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

lots of dead cambium on the main stem, looks like honey as a secondary, could have been but rotting that oak for decades till it went parasite on the cambium. would also explain the nice psuedosclerotial plating in the cavity, wulndt see that with Inonotus dryadeus just a sharp cone

[Tommy Hutchinson]

There are know signs of dead bark indicating Honey fungus and oosing, also no signs of ductile fractures of the root which is a character of Honey fungus.

 

Fistulina hipatica and Grifola frondosa working together may be ?

 

also Meripilus may also have been a contributer?

[treeseer]

  Thomas Hutchinson said:

There are know signs of dead bark indicating Honey fungus and oosing, also no signs of ductile fractures of the root which is a character of Honey fungus.

 

Fistulina hipatica and Grifola frondosa working together may be ?

 

also Meripilus may also have been a contributer?

 

More than fungus, it was asymmetry from sprawling into the light that brought it down. Too bad it hadnt been pruned to balance it, then gravity would not have happened so fiercely.

[Tommy Hutchinson]

Soil, fungi, structural weight placement, gravity e.t.c there are multiple factors all working together that influenced the failure of this tree.

 

I have cut some lovely burs and old wounds that had heeled over from the tree will try and sell them for a small price. 