Some Backyard Pruning

From General blog images

We had another tree taken out recently. We hated to see it go. The above photo shows the damage at the stump level that we were worried about. You can see the cavities coming into the heartwood from the top and left. Further troubling is the dead wood in the center. I know the water travels up the trunk on the outside of the tree, but that's a lot of dead heartwood. Anyway, I'll sleep better when the 60 mph January winds blow knowing we've done everything we can to make ourselves safe.