here are the pics of the trees.
I also noticed that on the wounded tree there is another wound higher up (too high for me to photograph) right at a sharp bend in a limb hanging over a telephone cable.
I also was poking around in the wound as per treeseer's suggestion, and the soft tissue goes about 15 inches deep.
At this point I'm just gunna advise my dad to get an estimate to have both trees removed, he's always wanted to replant some elms in the area anyways.
Yes, it was garbage day.
