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OT any tree experts or arborists here?
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Egging in Southern Illinois (Marion)
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if close to anything, i would take it down. any idea how old it is, they dont live long. im betting next heavy wind and it breaks again, popalar up here is fairly soft and snow loads break them pretty often
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Not an expert, but definitely lightning. I'd drop it if it were mine
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I think its about 22-25 years old. Time to fire up the stihl.
2 LBGE, Blackstone 36, Jumbo Joe
Egging in Southern Illinois (Marion)
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We have a Cottonwood in yard. From what I have read fast growing and short lived. One of our dogs peeled a big hunk of bark off of it before the leaves showed up this year. Tree is doing very well. Just sprayed the bald spit on the trunk. If I don't water it the leaves will drop by mid-August. Hit it with water and it will leave up again...
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I tried to save a big maple a couple years ago that was struck. It lasted about a year before I had to cut it down. Look at the trunk and see if you can see where bark was blown off of it.
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Call a local tree service. They have experts there. I just did this mainly to see if an old maple was worth keeping. I didn't know if it was dying or if I could trim dead branches, etc and it would be fine.
He walked me around my entire property and identified all my trees for me and gave his opinions on them etc. He also gave me a quote to drop the maple if I wanted to or to trim it up if i decided to keep it.
All this was free.
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None of the bark is blown off, thats why i thought maybe it rotted at the crown and the wind blew it down.
2 LBGE, Blackstone 36, Jumbo Joe
Egging in Southern Illinois (Marion)
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kl8ton said:Call a local tree service. They have experts there. I just did this mainly to see if an old maple was worth keeping. I didn't know if it was dying or if I could trim dead branches, etc and it would be fine.
He walked me around my entire property and identified all my trees for me and gave his opinions on them etc. He also gave me a quote to drop the maple if I wanted to or to trim it up if i decided to keep it.
All this was free.XL, Small, Mini & Mini Max Green Egg, Shirley Fab Trailer, 6 gal and 2.5 gal Cajun Fryers, BlueStar 60" Range, 48" Lonestar Grillz Santa Maria, Alto Shaam 1200s, Gozney Dome, Gateway 55g Drum -
Thatgrimguy said:kl8ton said:Call a local tree service. They have experts there. I just did this mainly to see if an old maple was worth keeping. I didn't know if it was dying or if I could trim dead branches, etc and it would be fine.
He walked me around my entire property and identified all my trees for me and gave his opinions on them etc. He also gave me a quote to drop the maple if I wanted to or to trim it up if i decided to keep it.
All this was free.
Back on topic, hard to tell from the pics, but it does look like the black areas could be burnt. A closer inspection should reveal if it's a burn or rot. The split looks to be pretty deep into the other branches. If there is minimal danger of it coming down on it's own and landing on something later, and you want to save it, go for it. But keep an eye on it. Trees can do an amazing job at healing themselves sometimes. Or they just rot and die.
If there is significant storm damage in your area, the arborists may be pretty busy cleaning up storm damage, so you may need a little patience if it's not an emergency and you are looking for an expert opinion.
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@RiverRatSkier The place I used has 5 or more certified arborists on staff. The guy that showed up WAS an ISA certified arborist. I should have recorded our conversation because i only retained 5-10% of it. A wealth of knowledge.
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Not sure, but I do know that after paying to have a 100 yr old dead tree brought down last month that I clearly made the wrong career-decision.--Because I'm like ice, buddy. When I don't like you, you've got problems.
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clemsontyger97 said:Not sure, but I do know that after paying to have a 100 yr old dead tree brought down last month that I clearly made the wrong career-decision.
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Shoot, at a dollar per stick at Hawgeyes for smokewood, it opens up other avenues.....buy a couple KBQs, private cater.
It is cool, watching arborists pick apart a huge tree. Running a saw safely is nothing to shake a stick at. You can be 100% safe, and still get bit.BrandonQuad Cities
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+1 w/@RiverRatSkier! If it's within 50 ft of anything it could damage if it falls down again.. away it should go... otherwise, unless you just "hate it" I'd leave it alone!
I've got several Hickories in the front pasture that 4 or 5 years ago I thought needed to go but... I had another beer and, of course, one should not operate power equipment after drinking! Those trees are doing great and I toast them with a beer every night!
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It was a real nice tree. Oh well, itll make a hell of a bonfire!
2 LBGE, Blackstone 36, Jumbo Joe
Egging in Southern Illinois (Marion)
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Once damaged, the clock is ticking.... If it was in my yard, it'd be down within the week.
LBGE #19 from North GA Eggfest, 2014
Stockbridge, GA - just south of Atlanta where we are covered up in Zombies! #TheWalkingDead films practically next door!
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It's going to die, might be within a year or two, might make it ten......but it's toast. I had an arborist tell me just last week that it's just like blunt force trauma--not necessarily the electricity. If it can blow a piece of 20 ft piece of bark off the tree and throw it halfway across the yard, imagine what vibration and trauma the rest of the wood behind piece that felt. Plus if it's now missing bark, that effects how the water flows and it will begin to decay......the carpenter ants love it. Those guys really know their stuff--no wonder they're 4x the cost of a bubba with a chainsaw on Craigslist!
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Bad time for trees. Arborist just told us we have Oak Wilt. He tagged 23 oaks next to the house. Asking $5300 to treat now and could have to do every 2 to 3 years as well. Also several to most could still die. Three died in last two weeks. We are going to treat with sugar, corn meal, Texas green sand and turkey poop. Hope it works.
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City of St. Louis is taking down 15,000 ash trees this year. The ash borer is has taken its toll and this is there plan to stop it.
Also, relevant story.......the "Treaty Oak" in Austin had been poisoned many years ago. They ended up removing most of the soil, then using charcoal powder to help draw the herbicide out of the root system. Ross Perot bankrolled the whole thing and they saved the tree. I never knew this story, but heard it from the same arborist. I laughed told him what I did for a living, then gave him a bunch of charcoal fines to try out. The next day I got a call from the president of the St. Louis Aborist's Society asking me to come speak at their next meeting about biochar soil amendments. -
A lower branch on my neighbor's live oak split 1/3 of the trunk half way to the ground. This happened during hurricane Katrina over 10 years ago. I cut off the branch, drilled a hole and put in an 18" lag bolt and pulled the trunk back together. Today the tree is completely healthy and you can barely tell 1/3 of the trunk split almost to the ground.
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nolaegghead said:A lower branch on my neighbor's live oak split 1/3 of the trunk half way to the ground. This happened during hurricane Katrina over 10 years ago. I cut off the branch, drilled a hole and put in an 18" lag bolt and pulled the trunk back together. Today the tree is completely healthy and you can barely tell 1/3 of the trunk split almost to the ground.They/Them
Morgantown, PA
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And your chainsaw chain.
2 LBGE, Blackstone 36, Jumbo Joe
Egging in Southern Illinois (Marion)
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I would feel bad for anyone who tried to cut that down with a chain saw.
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nolaegghead said:I would feel bad for anyone who tried to cut that down with a chain saw.
Mine should be easy, only thing nearby is that basketball goal and if i dropped the tree on it my feelings would be unaffected.2 LBGE, Blackstone 36, Jumbo Joe
Egging in Southern Illinois (Marion)
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milesvdustin said:nolaegghead said:
Mine should be easy, only thing nearby is that basketball goal and if i dropped the tree on it my feelings would be unaffected.Ellijay GA with a Medium & MiniMax
Well, I married me a wife, she's been trouble all my life,
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Ill be starting tonight. Ill post up some pics.
2 LBGE, Blackstone 36, Jumbo Joe
Egging in Southern Illinois (Marion)
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Mickey said:Bad time for trees. Arborist just told us we have Oak Wilt. He tagged 23 oaks next to the house. Asking $5300 to treat now and could have to do every 2 to 3 years as well. Also several to most could still die. Three died in last two weeks. We are going to treat with sugar, corn meal, Texas green sand and turkey poop. Hope it works.
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Had ab arborist in my clinic today. He said if wind blew enough to break a significant part of the tree then it's weak enough to not trust. Said something wasn't right with the tree. If lightning caused, the heat from the bolt has destroyed the tree internally.
Either way, get it down was his suggestion.LBGE #19 from North GA Eggfest, 2014
Stockbridge, GA - just south of Atlanta where we are covered up in Zombies! #TheWalkingDead films practically next door!
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Only got the stuff on the ground cut up and about 7 low limbs cut off before it started pouring and lightning out of nowhere. So i have about 15 minutes in so far.
I did make some cedar plank salmon and roasted asparagus for dinner. Only took a glamour shot pre cook of the salmon.
2 LBGE, Blackstone 36, Jumbo Joe
Egging in Southern Illinois (Marion)
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