Interesting big beech(s)

[benedmonds]

Asked to look a beech today and my first thought was that half was dead... On closer inspection turns out it is two trees one coming into leaf later.. What would others recommend. The two trees have not grafted well above ground and failure of the non leafed tree would be pretty catastrophic..

[benedmonds]

Don't know why it was small?

[tree79]

interesting one, im assuming that the later beech is still alive , so will come into soon?

a lot of what you do will come down to what the owner allows,

assuming both are healthy im not sure I would go down the crown reduction path as its beech, may be crown thin would help?

Cable bracing (non invasive) could be a option to.

 

will be keen to other people advise

[benedmonds]

assuming both are healthy im not sure I would go down the crown reduction path as its beech, may be crown thin would help?

Cable bracing (non invasive) could be a option to.

 

I don't see a crown reduction being viable.. I am not a fan of cable bracing except to catch suspect limbs if they were to fail. In this case the whole tree would fail and be hung up over the house, hanging on the cable... Not sure I would want to sort out that mess!

[tree79]

No crown reduction wouldn't be my choice.

Could you not brace the stems together using cobra, it's not to expensive and they can be effective

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

fell the right stem, reduce the left tree and allow to re develop a new crown

[treeseer]

Perhaps wait til leaves are formed to ID and assess?

If cuts are specced to <3", <20% off, decline seems unlikely.

 

Need a better look at fork before speculating on support, but

 

through-cabling would be much less invasive than pruning. Rigguy, Inc >> Product Info

[Mick Dempsey]

fell the right stem, reduce the left tree and allow to re develop a new crown

 

From what I can see from the pictures I'd say this^^^^^is the best solution.