Tree oddities

It was only about a foot from the tree, which appeared healthy. Thanks for the interesting article. HO declined my offer to remove the broken/dead limb.
 
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southsoundtree said:
@evo
What is your take on failure due to schweinizii?
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I see failures more frequently with bract form of FB’s. It can be very slow progression but my take is that it use to be a OMG, cut the tree, then the pendulum swing in the far opposite direction. I guess I’m more in the middle.

I’ve observed failure with a solid stump but infected roots.

Kind the same take with bottle butt, which use to be cause for removal as the thought was the decay was so significant compressive forces from the weight of the tree was causing bulging. Then the far other end started being discussed as a sign of good reaction wood formation compensating for the strength loss. I think both are actually right and it really depends on case by case situation. Certainly worthy of further inspections. Frequently I’ll core sample the area that looks/sounds or in proximity 20% inside bark and consider 30% depth on three more equidistant sides.
If the fruiting body is at a distance on the ground I’ll inspect by digging. It will fruit from decayed wood or substantial roots
 
27RMT0N said:
Very cool tree. I hope it's not being removed, but if so I'd turn that into some kind of sculpture.
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Nothing close to that scale but in a Doug fir I worked on the top was missing and all the limbs were basically folded over and grafted. Complete with a nest a little bigger than a crows. Something more along the lines of a small hawk.
I’ll try to post a video
 
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