Oak tree rotting.

[Spoons]

Just asking for some input towards this Oak that a customer wants to be taken down. It has a TPO so he is trying to get council approval for it to be removed but wants to be armed with some expert knowledge. It has been pollarded in the past a few times by the looks of it due to being in a small cul-de-sac and having phone lines running through/over it. It has a large amount of rot going up the trunk (very soft) and the root is non existent underneath this section. Also has a tear wound on one limb and has rot within that area. He's not interested in it being re-pollarded to reduce weight. He just wants it gone. Attached are a few photos. He also reckons it vibrates when the bin lorry comes down the road and goes over the roots.

 

Sorry for the sideways photos. Doesn't want to turn them the right way round

[Roger the shrubber]

Looking at your pics I can see calus growth rib forming on left side of main Stem so tree is trying to heal the wound, regarding the extent of decay from pics hard to tell, best bet get a fully qualified consultant to assess the tree in person

Hope this helps

[treeseer]

Why does he want it gone? Callus on both sides; strength loss minimal.

 

Light pruning should suffice; cuts <10 cm.

[kev7937]

Our tree officer wouldn't let you take that down, he'd condemn it and tell the owner it has to come down.

[sloth]

Our tree officer wouldn't let you take that down, he'd condemn it and tell the owner it has to come down.

 

Not sure I get this comment...

[Mountain man]

I'm guess he meant would instead of wouldn't.

Anyway it's got to go and replant another, this is ruined crappy oak, don't waste any more time on it, fell, grind replant. In ten years you'll have a nice plane/lime/whatever, whereas if you muck around with this you'll have a crappy ruined oak in ten years.

[David Humphries]

.............whereas if you muck around with this you'll have a crappy ruined oak in ten years.

 

But if managed sensitively, the owner and the neighbourhood could possibly have a "crappy ruined oak" for another twenty, thirty, forty, maybe even fifty years.

 

 

There's actually no rule that I've ever come across that states that trees really have to adhere to what may be percived as a perfect tree form.

 

 

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[kev7937]

Not sure I get this comment...

 

 

Sorry what I meant is that managing and retaining it wouldn't be an option in his eyes, he'd basically tell the owner it's too dangerous to stay.

[ballibeg]

Folk don't want an ongoing cost for decades.

[David Humphries]

Some folks do, often they are not given the option due to ignorance and risk aversion.

 

 

 

 

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