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    Oak root collar excavation questions

    Thanks - yeah, I figured that one going across was bad news. My main concern is whether I’ve gone deep enough, or if it looks like I need to keep going. I have been researching as much as I can, but I can’t tell if I have exposed what needs to be or if I now have roots open to the air that...
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    Oak root collar excavation questions

    Anyone?
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    Oak root collar excavation questions

    Can someone help me make sense of these roots? I guess I need to do more digging to figure out if the one going across the trunk is actually attached to the tree somewhere. Is the bulbous-looking but the root flare? I don’t know if I should keep digging deeper, or if I have gone too far
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    Oak root collar excavation questions

    It’s tough to get good pictures of the whole thing, but here’s what I’ve got.
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    Oak root collar excavation questions

    I take it back - this doesn’t look like a truffle, more like wet concrete (it was easily breakable by hand). Definitely smells like sewage.
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    Oak root collar excavation questions

    I had no idea there were truffles in Minnesota - I’ve been looking up pictures of both, and it definitely looked like a truffle. It was big, too, around the size of my fist. Can’t imagine anyone wanting to eat that one, though. I like truffles, but this one smelled foul.
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    Oak root collar excavation questions

    Structure-wise? It’s probably 20’ from the corner of our house, maybe 30-40’ from our neighbor’s. It is surrounded by grass and creeping charlie and flanked most sides by flower beds. We never did manage to grow much in the way of grass underneath it, so we figured switching over to a giant...
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    Oak root collar excavation questions

    Thank you! I have only just started excavating near where the chicken sprang up, and I definitely have deeper to go...I did come across a weird blob that at first I thought was a root, but part of to came away and it was white inside and, weirdly, smelled of sewage. I removed what I found so...
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    Oak root collar excavation questions

    Yep. We figured we would have to put in a retaining wall/tree well. Trying to figure out how to add drainage to it is proving to be tough. Do they make exterior sump pumps? ;-)
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    Oak root collar excavation questions

    No slope, unfortunately - it is actually in one of the lowest points of our yard.
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    Oak root collar excavation questions

    I read that thread about a DIY air spade - it is a bit beyond my abilities, but I was planning on using the hose once I got a bit further down and things dried up a bit more (it’s quite soggy right now). So the bark being decayed is ok? Has anyone had success in rehabilitating a tree that was...
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    Oak root collar excavation questions

    We are attempting a manual root collar excavation on our 51” burr oak, that has been declining over the past eight years that we have lived here. It is slow going, and appears that the tree has been buried for a very long time. There is a layer of crumbly weird rock, ceramic & glass shards, and...
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