turbojimmy
Supporting Member
- Joined
- May 26, 2001
So it's REALLY windy in the northeast. I've been in my house for 7 years and there's this one tree that I've always suspected that's rotten in the middle. This was confirmed recently when a woodpecker was poking holes in it to get at the grubs inside. The tree is huge - about 50 or 60 feet tall and only about 30 feet from my house. About 8 feet up it splits into 2 - the dead part is on one of the legs of the "V". The wind took the dead part off about 15 feet up. Luckily it fell into the woods. My brother and I cut it what was left at the "V". The thing is rotten in the middle.
I jammed a crow bar (the only thing long and sharp I had laying around) into the middle of what's left of the dead part of the "V" and it went the whole way down into the base of the tree. Now the part of the "V" that's left worries me. This thing will take out windows, my deck, shed and fence if it comes down. I hate to take it down if it's not a risk, plus it's not really my tree. It's about 6" beyond my property line and belongs to the state of NJ.
So the question is, if the rot took out half the tree what are the chances the other half is healthy?
TIA,
Jim
I jammed a crow bar (the only thing long and sharp I had laying around) into the middle of what's left of the dead part of the "V" and it went the whole way down into the base of the tree. Now the part of the "V" that's left worries me. This thing will take out windows, my deck, shed and fence if it comes down. I hate to take it down if it's not a risk, plus it's not really my tree. It's about 6" beyond my property line and belongs to the state of NJ.
So the question is, if the rot took out half the tree what are the chances the other half is healthy?
TIA,
Jim