Oak trees close your house

Anything but a water oak. They grow for 30 years then die for 30 years from the inside out. Slowly get hollow and brittle until the whole thing falls. And since they grow very tall and narrow they have a lot of velocity when they hit the ground. Just all around a bad tree to have to deal with later.

EDIT: Added photos of the one I cut down last year.





I have 2 live oaks in the front yard that I have zero concern with though. They are quite robust and give us good shade.

Water oaks are trash trees do not let them grow near your house. I wouldn’t let any tree grow that can fall on my house, I’ve learned the hard way. They can all fall.

We had a black oak that had hollowed out just like the water oaks do.

I love oaks. My farm has tons of white oaks, red oaks and pecans.

Just the other day I cut down 3 white oaks that were close to the house. A little too close for comfort. And they wouldn't allow grass to grow un that area due to the shade.

I cut them myself. If you cut down 2-4 mature trees per year like I do, go to treestuff dot com and order a good rope with an eye splice for a carabiner. Also get one of those weighted bean bag throwing things and that twine for them.

I throw the bean bag over a limb high up in the tree, connect it to the thick rope through the carabiner and pull taut. Hook that to the FEL on the tractor for tension as you're making the back cut and to help with the correct direction of fall.

I can take down any fricked up tree and make it fall where I want to.

How close to your house? Oak trees get HUGE.

That’s way too close for any tree.

Way to close to your home. Cut them.

I have oak trees and all I do is pick up damn limbs and sticks

I'm a little scared.
We have two giant oaks in the front yard. Both are tall (50') and relatively narrow although the red oak is bushier at the top. The red oak is slightly closer to the house 25'-30' away. The other is a pin oak.

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I'm a little scared. We have two giant oaks in the front yard. Both are tall (50') and relatively narrow although the red oak is bushier at the top. The red oak is slightly closer to the house 25'-30' away. The other is a pin oak.

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Well, one thing I learned from the ag extension guy. They refused to take money for a visit and advice. You might call yours and see.

I take it you've never seen tree cutters using bottle jacks to fell trees in the direction they want with almost clear certainty. Lots of u-tube videos showing how it's done and it's very simple.

Cut your notch in the trunk in the direction you want the tree to fall, go on the opposite side and cut out a pocket big enough to place the bottle jack with a thick metal plate between the plunger and the wood and pump it up snug. Then make a couple plunge cuts on the backside of the trunk to remove the meat holding it together and a few pumps on the bottle jack gets the tree moving in the right direction.