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My neighbor said letting a big maple lean is fine because 'trees know what they're doing'
He's a retired engineer, not an arborist, but his comment about natural tree strength made me pause. Do you think we sometimes over-prune or cable when a tree's own structure is actually sound enough?
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maryr4325d ago
Had a sugar maple leaning toward our deck for years. Got a second opinion from an arborist who said the root system was solid and the lean was just how it grew. @blake_kelly19 has a point about trusting the tree more than the fix. We just trimmed a few dead branches and it's been fine through some nasty storms.
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joseph_green1326d ago
My buddy in Vermont had a huge oak leaning over his garage for years. He got talked into a full cabling job that cost him almost two grand. Then that big ice storm last winter hit and a perfectly straight pine he never worried about crushed his shed instead. Sometimes we mess with the wrong trees trying to fix a problem that isn't really there.
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