Archie Brown has a big white oak tree in front of his house. It is probably older than me, and is at least two feet in diameter in the lower trunk. It has been beautiful and provided a lot of shade for his home.
About eighteen months ago it was struck by lightening. The Browns have monitored it closely since that night. They do not want to have it fall on the house. In the past few weeks they have seen the development of some vertical stress fractures in the trunk. Archie had done all the trimming he could do with his limited equipment, so he called a tree specialist to come do some professional work on the tree this week. He took off some of the low hanging limbs and gave the tree some balance in hopes that they can save the old beauty.
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