Tree house in post oaks

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I grew up in the hill country where tree houses in the live oaks were fine. We now live on land with several large post oaks (3 feet + in diameter at the base). I figured a tree house would be no big deal but we lost several large trees the past two years, most likely from the prior drought years.

My current thought is better safe than sorry and abandon the idea, but wanted to see if anyone here had good or bad experiences with post oaks after a tree house project

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4:41p, 11/20/24

Aggieland: Tree "house" deck for play between two mature Post Oaks between 1980-1990 still stands on 2x treated SYP joists & 2x decking but prudently No One allowed up there today but the cats.

That said, only the Post Oaks on this acre near the house & septic/rain water runoff areas survived the droughts that began late 80s. Ths first to die were the ones w/roots spolied by the muddy or last to dry out run areas.

Post Oaks are fickle and EZ to die just by a human looking at them, then others want to grow into your bedroom window. With Oak Wilt on the rise, I would not put my kid on a Post Oak as sole support.

BTW, we are getting Live Oak deaths now due to weird weather from deadly freeze to drought in odd months.
Oak Wilt got the small one near house
Hypoxylon canker got the very large one near house

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