Willow Oak

[Mark Chisholm]

I was asked to inspect a hollow in a Willow Oak last month that turned out to be in need of removal. The hollow was too far advanced to recommend leaving it. Here's a shot of the tree.

 

[Mark Chisholm]

Here's the hollow.

 

[Mark Chisholm]

Here's some rigging.

 

[Mark Chisholm]

Here's another shot.

 

[Mark Chisholm]

Here's the felling cut. A little hollow all the way to the ground.

 

[Mark Chisholm]

Anyone having trouble viewing the 1st, 3rd and 4th photos? They are .bmp and the other two are .jpg.

 

[klimbinfool]

No prob. here Mark. Nice shots. Thats a fair size Willow Oak. Was there much rot above the hollow area ?

Greg

 

[Mark Chisholm]

Greg,

It was probably 40' in length. But the hollow was pretty small at ground level. Here's another shot.

 

[klimbinfool]

hmmm... yeah now I see. Looks like about 20% holding wood left.

Greg

 

[TheTreeSpyder]

Pretty neat. BMP is bigger file, for same picture.

 

[Mark Chisholm]

I'm going to try to re-load the images later as .jpgs. Maybe tonight?

 

[Mark Chisholm]

Alright, I changed all of the photos to .jpg, anyone still having problems viewing them?

Here's a shot of the hollow before I removed too much.

 

[Mark Chisholm]

Here's a good shot of how much weight was above the hollow.

 

[klimbinfool]

No prob. Mark . There comming in fast.

 

[Mark Chisholm]

One thing I should have mentioned, this tree was also the subject of a bad topping (as if there is such a thing as a good topping) some years ago. If you look at the first picture, you can see where it was topped and how the re-growth strated to shoot upward. It was a shorter tree than it should've been judging from the trunk tapper.