Pic 1- from far enough away you can see daylight through that hole up there. It exploded one winter.
Pic 2, 3, and 4- the hole on the back now.
Pic 5, 6- tree a year or so ago
We've informed the landlord many a time, so he is aware. What are we looking at for danger level? What can we expect (if that is possible to say) when this thing fails. It's an oak of an oaken type. Not sure which.
by Warm-Exercise6880
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There’s very little holding that tree together
Check r/treelaw for assessing the landlord’s liability in putting you in potential danger
That thing needed to be removed last year
The tree definitely does not look great, but there’s a lot more that goes into tree risk assessment like what the targets are, likelihood of impact, consequences of impact, and all of the factors that play into those. You should get a local TRAQ arborist to provide you with a proper tree risk assessment report if you want to know the “danger level”.
Edit to add: I see in the first picture now the tree is next to the house. Without knowing where this is, I think it’s still safe to say it’s a moderate to high risk tree as it relates to the house as a target.
Fucked bad
I thin kthats a very cool tree. Plenty of holding wood, whats left looks good the rot seems white and dry. It’s brown rot that’s the fucker. Got yourself a genuine bat roost and fox hole there. Might even get some bees in it. Great habitat
Third picture you can see it’s put roots inside there. Good sign. You know if ants or bees move in those roots will feed colonies with sugars or water to sustain them. They’ll help keep a better climate inside the hollow and are encouraged by the tree
That growth on top looks epichormic, it might just keep growing till it snaps. I might be wrong. might want to take some weight out of the limb coming towards you on the last union. All the heavy shits fine.
Does it get worse than dead?
It’s going to worse bad if you procrastinate and it falls on you’re house, a person, etc
I was out in the woods yesterday and found an Ash a lot like that. There was a huge hole in the bottom. Porcupines had moved in, they went up inside the hollow trunk. Cute!
One to stay away from on a windy day.
Do you like your house? Or in this case the house that you rent?
Landlord is going to be on the hook for the injury that you or your family sufferers. Not a reasonable landlord.
That’s a no doubter gotta go. It looks like it’d fall the right way naturally, but I’d be taking that out years ago.
It’s gonna come down one way or the other, better a pro do it that mother nature.
Stop taking pictures and do some work.
Getter down
Good Lord.
No responsible landlord who values their tenant’s safety or keeping their insurance premium reasonable would leave that standing. It needs to be taken down and soon.
This isn’t some snag providing shelter to animals deep in the woods somewhere.
The tree looks like it has a good canopy of leaves.
The bulk of the branches are away from that building.
It’s not going to come down on its own anytime soon.
Now in a tornado I wouldn’t want to be jumping on the trampoline but it’s not likely going to just fall on you on any day that doesn’t have 80mph winds.
Not an arborist but I own 100 acres of bush around my home and I’ve seen way worse trees standing up for years and they’re still standing.
If it had a house in its path, that’s a different story.
I’m sure the hackers will disagree, but it’s fine.
I’ve pulled down actually rotted trees with my backhoe and even at full rot with zero branches and woodpecker holes from top to bottom. A tree that size will not just flop over.
But removing dead branches is a good call if they seem dead, so they don’t fall on anyone.