“...could be saved.”
Some wood glue and 2x4s and it will be as good as new.
Stupid kid.
They can keep careful watch over a stump sprout. That much is true.
Some trees that after cutting down will grow back, hope this one can, will be 20-30 years though from the size of that.
Still angry about the apartment builders in the 1970s that cut down every one of the 200 year old oak trees out of the 20 acres of woods behind our house, breaks my heart to this day.
He was just following the “Noble Law”.
Some wood glue and 2x4s and it will be as good as new.
= = =
Almost.
Fasten trunk back up. Steel in the core, maybe. Exterior bracing.
Then “Bridge Graft” from the stump to the trunk.
Bracing will probably have to be permament.
Maybe some gorilla glue…