Oak w/ mushrooms , hold the Ketchup

[Riggs]

Here's a 100 foot Black Oak , did it with a 75 ft. bucket , lowered it out of another Oak next to it. Thought the whole thing might fail . Just plain ugly .

 

[Riggs]

Another shot...

 

[Riggs]

ANd please don't wreck the Rhodies ...

 

[guymayor]

That is quite a crop, Riggsie!

Did it hold together when Rigged? A cross-sectional shot would be nice, to see if that is a sapwood rotter, or worse.

 

[Jamin_Mayer]

Wow!

That's a lot of shrooms. Are those eatable? Harvest those and make some side money!

 

[Riggs]

Seriously this tree was ugly . I capped my whole bucket with mats. I was only 75ft. and I wasn't right under this tree. I had to make twenty five foot plus cuts with a 3/4 dbl. . That whole tree was spongy but was real solid in the middle. I did a Hickory right next to it , that was like cutting bricks, and had as many shrooms. Talk about letting trees just rot. The top cuts were nasty,anything less than a seventy five foot bucket , you'd need a crane with a basket. These trees were over a road , near a high school with buses going under them twice a day . The centers were solid and the rest was punk .Saved the Rhodies, got paid . Next..

 

[The_REVerend]

That looks like a Oak I did back a couple of years ago
Scary lookin but not as bad when I got her down
Did ya find it was just the outer rings were punk and the heart solid?

 

[jimmyq]

I have seen those conks, didnt ge to cut it down though, she was in the city park