One of my favorite trees in the neighborhood...

[oldoakman]

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Ambrosia beetles and Hypoxylon would have a field day with that tree in my area. Only time will tell.

Definitely a possibility where Winchman is too.

 

[Daniel]

Ah, Red Oak, then I say get firewood out of it before it decays. Then plant something else. Just my 2¢.

I'd be surprised if that tree makes it more than a couple years. Might not even leaf out next spring. But with lightning you can never be sure.

 

[Winchman]

Well, it's certainly not dead yet.

 

[Winchman]

I climbed the lightening-damaged oak tree today to remove a smallish dead limb that was hanging over the street.

A quick job that gave me a chance to take pics of the continuing bark peel.

Looks awful, but overall it's still a beautiful tree.

 

[data farm 26]

Well done. Climbing up for one branch is my favorite type of work climb!

 

[Winchman]

Looks like it's going to be OK for another year.

But it's missing much more bark.

 

[ATH]

Great to see the update...and that it's doing well

 

[Treetopflyer]

Do you have any closeups winchman ? is It showing good callus wood along the margins where the bark is coming off ?

 

[Winchman]

Closeups show lots of wound wood that appears to be holding the adjacent bark firmly in place.


It's probably a race between the exposed wood rotting and/or getting attacked by insects and the wound wood closing over the damaged area.

 

[Bendroctanus]

Closeups show lots of wound wood that appears to be holding the adjacent bark firmly in place.
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It's probably a race between the exposed wood rotting and/or getting attacked by insects and the wound wood closing over the damaged area.

That’s about as best as you can expect. All things considered, I think it looks really good. I’ve not known Oak heartwood to rot very easily.