Broken Oak

I was hiking up the hill to an area of our land where I hadn't been for a while when I came upon a large oak tree that had recently fallen over.  I don't know exactly when it happened.  It could have been during the heavy wet snow we had back in October or it could have happened more recently during one of the windy winter rain storms.  In any case it must have been at a time when no one was around, otherwise we surely would have heard it.  It was a large but weak tree - the base was rotted hollow from insects and fungi.  We have a number of such damaged trees on our land.  Our long term plans for managing the forest is to remove the worst of the infested trees and try to halt the decay of the others.

There wasn't much of a base to the tree and what there was split in a spectacular way.

As can be seen, it did not fall all the way to the ground but rather hung itself up in a neighboring tree.
I don't know how I will safely clean this up.  However, since it is not near any of the current activities on the land, I will probably leave it be for now.