I've got white fungus growing on my water oak and I need advice on how to get rid of it. I'm in Cypress Tx

Ed Dolphin is great

ziggity06 said:

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I've got white fungus growing on my water oak and I need advice on how to get rid of it. I'm in Cypress Tx

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A 50cc 20" bar chainsaw should do the trick.

ETA- on a serious note, I had a large (3'+ diameter) water oak in my back yard that got butchered by Centerpoint. I called out Louis Flory/Ability Tree Experts (the arborist that used to advertise on Randy Lemmon's program) to see what could be done for it. He told me that being an old water oak, it was already rotting from the inside out, would accelerate in dropping large branches, and that he would be glad to take my money but if it was his property, he would just remove it. The tree added so much beauty and shade to our patio and house, that I ignored his advice and had them balance out the tree.

He was right. Over a period of three years, it lost all its major horizontal branches, and then fell over in Hurricane Beryl, scraping/narrowly missing the house. Turns out the roots on one whole side were rotten just below the surface, which allowed the tree to tip over in the high winds.

I have used https://houstontreesurgeons.com/

They have done a good job for me.

I'm using these guys right now for one of our elms.

https://www.bartlett.com/

Spike 80DF has worked on oak trees before

Water oaks last about 30 years. They are all dying in our neighborhood. Some people keep them past that, and they just keep trimming dead branches till it looks like a telephone pole. Could have planted another tree and been 10 years in already vs trimming and near misses on branches falling off and almost hitting real assets. Something to keep in mind if it is old. .

Second on Bartlett.