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It's pretty hard to predict how fast it will spread without knowing the site. sounds like poor drainage though.

coming out of the base near roots mangled in 1996. no spores coming out yet, rather brownish, not honey-colored to my eye.

A reasonable plan, but if owner's arb undertakes the works it could be a lot less. Size seems overspecced; this is 3' diameter? Would just one rod below and one above do the job? I don't do a lot of these.

ring it up, like push it back up? No, most bettors went back to other work after it was pulled 0ver (took 4,000#+ of pull). I hung around and moved brush while the top was cut up, and noticed the trunk raising upward on its own. When all the top was off, I gave it some help with me polesaw. Cassian leaned in when at~80 degrees, and we got it to ~85. The response growth along those segments over the years should be quite interesting. A lot of bettors pinned $1USD under their tags, but a lot missed the memo, so it wasn't a big payday.

Elegant work. I just retained a dead central leader for habitat. It was over a bench, so it was tethered (but too high to notice). Any thought of that on the long stub, or is traffic quite low? From the looks of it, the branch is extremely unlikely to fail, but I wonder if perceived risk might be a factor. re segmentation, pull testing can give a glimpse into how that can work. See how this maple comes apart; and joins back together?

Yes extraordinary capture there--well done! Depends on the site, but...reduction need not be hard, if support is adequate. And ashes could be reduced instead of felled as well. But my limited experience with beech is that they do not break dormant buds in the shade, so good thought to lighten the interior.

6 months? Why wait 6 hours? Excellent job capturing that movement! Deadwooding and raising would increase center of gravity, and risk. Installing cable and/or brace rod(s) and some reduction would seem to be in order. Support system could buy decades or centuries of useful life.

Right; it's not clear that these growths are related to the lack of flowering.

Many causes to dieback. Pics of canopy would be useful. If a machine got close enough to wound the trunk, it compacted the soil, for instance. Tree pests are primarily primates.

The 3rd pic resembles that disease; the first 2 look like physical injuries.

Adam, your uni must have BS3998--have you read the bracing section? It's not that long... the suggestion to fell based on fear is without substance. If you might pick one tree--the 'worst'?-- and put up some pics to show that one tree's issues, then you might get useful help.

That is a very short term positive; as the bacteria are spent the beetles move in--brown dust in pic--and after that rot. Frothy flux is pathogenic and quite distinct from slime flux.

The encasement in reaction wood can indeed be reinforcing! Cables installed with lag bolts located too low can indeed pull out. that is why through-cabling, and higher placement, is preferred. Tannin eats metal? Is there a reference for this--I have not seen it in 100's of cabled oaks. For structurally challenged trees that are pruned instead of cabled, you obviously have concerns over structural integrity, so they should be inspected on a regular basis. As with cables, this inspection period could be 5 years or more.

Southern California and the UK are very different; flora and fauna. Vive la Difference!

Yes it's got bacteria in it...and yeast, and other soil microbes that get into the sapstream. Full story from 10 years ago attached. David, I do have one documented case of an infection sealing after 2 treatments. It's near the honey root job I'll do tomorrow. Also on that site are 3+ frothy infections, and I'll get paid there so will send a full report. The big frother above is on the tree I got married under; not paid to treat it but still motivated. Sad to see the other so girdled. Ooze in the News from TCI Magazine 09-04.pdf

Impossible to say without seeing the constraint they are intended to mitigate. They appear too close together to comply with US standard. But that's no cause for action. What does your reading of BS3998 indicate? If this is a uni assgt, should we be asked to do it for you?

A cocktail of microbes enter the tree and kill the cambium. Dry it out or it can kill the tree. First pic is Quercus prinus, 90% girdled, on the way out. Last pic is on a Q alba and will be treated.

Deer? Too much water? Buried roots? Chemicals leached from treated wood? I don't knwo. Obviously!

apggs, the inspection would give a range of options, the most typical of which might be re-installation higher up. I recommend checking BS3998 on this, which describes BOTH static and dynamic systems. Your uni would have a copy I trust. The terminology is overly dichotomous, as static systems do allow for some movement. Also, adaptive growth is stimulated by many factors, so the advantage of dynamic systems may be overstated. see image. Personally I favor through-cabling with wedgegrip fasteners, but have seen many dynamic systems doing a good job. Have fun, David--Jon is the Energizer Bunny of anti-synthetic ranters.

Jon, there is variability in advice from pathologists. That extension bulletin is typical in the US; it was the same in NC before I took Independent Study with my old path. prof. and reviewed Schwarze's Fungal Strategies book. That didn't change things enough, but it showed me how backward the US is in ecological matters in general. Pathologists from Bartlett Labs have taught their field guys to treat Armillaria-infected trees with Trichoderma. When dealing with your client's trees, you might look to that more than to an extension guy who spends about .oo1% of his time with arboriculture. His primary audience is nurserymen, so his advice does not fit arboriculture. Though it can make a speedy sale for Basil Kutz.

I'd like to try one of those! I wonder how big a compressor is needed...

A client of mine used a black light on the interior of a q alba hollowed by Bondarzewia berkeleyii. The conks popped out in new places the next season, the spread confirmed by tomo. He died of cancer that year too. no connection i'm sure. Drying sapwood rot is proven effective; drying heartwood rot is pretty risky. imo. The tree's >80% hollow and growing, still not too bad; it gets a 9% tickle every other year. Hoping the new owner will understand the regimen, and the prognosis. The 9' diameter q rubra in the june 2014 detective story is >90% hollow. Jon, *please* write a letter to the editor about how you know more than 13 reviewers about fungi and death sentences; I would so love to compose a reply.... The shoestrings on the q alba in this thread are facing due south, where the wounding was. I never noticed any compass-colonisation connection. I'll be exposing the wounded root next Monday, collecting samples, and giving the U lab a go at ID. It's only $15, the client will pay, wut the hey. Likely we'll be removing all decayed matter and probing inward. Even if hollow is detected, that would not affect pruning specs much; as it is, they are 0; if the trunk's hollow, maybe 1-3m reduction of the top, to start it growing down. it is exposed to the south, but we seldom get storm winds from that direction. the thing to remember is--the tree is supported by its buttresses , not its heartwood.

David, I might try bringing in some shoestrings to that lab, but can sp. be ID'd from those? without DNA analysis I mean. Unclear how many sp. we have; depends on who you ask. I'd be pleasantly surprised if they were easy to sort out from any kind of analysis. Tony, thanks for the enlightenment neighbor but you're the only one talking about a beast on the loose. But your suggestion to deacidify conditions has merit; soil replacement is standard practice, and of course a necessity after removing soil to diagnose.... I would tend to use a sterile medium, not landscape soil, and maybe lime to raise pH? And yes drying, so that medium would be very porous.

Saproxylic species of Armilaria perhaps, yes, but can't they all morph into parasitic mode? Maybe a tad rash to condem the tree to uneccessary work due to the unknown, of course; diagnosis first. Worth getting an ID on the rhizomorphs first, so i take it the best way would be to pull off dead bark from the root and look for more shoestrings. Is ID of these structures in the arbtalk app? I have yet to get that on my new phone.