I'll start by saying that we love this tree. In the summer it canopies our entire backyard (and part of our neighbor's on each side) with shade. The wingspan is massive.
We moved into this home in 2023, and when we did the inspector told us that an arborist last looked at this large wonderful tree in ~2021 and felt it was healthy and strong.
We don't know how old the tree is. The home was built in 1969, 57 years ago.
Note the main photo was taken on the zoomed out "0.5" setting which exaggerates the size a bit.
I'm increasingly nervous about a limb failing and someone getting hurt or property damage. I want to bring an aborist to come look at it, but I don't know anything about big ol trees, mitigating risks, or how to start even thinkign about how to start this process.
Would love some thoughts and pointers – thank you!
by PaintablePictures1
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I’ll say – I love the look of big mature trees – it beats the hell out of new sub divisions and their baby nursery trees.
With that being said, I cut down a big silver maple in my backyard this year – it was “healthy” but silver maples grow faster than their wood can support, and it doesn’t take much for it to suddenly drop a large limb, apparently.
Mine was leaning over my house and it made me uncomfortable, so we had it removed. It was about 60 years old. I still have a 35 year old oak and a 25 year old maple, if it was my only tree I might have kept it, but I sleep better knowing the big monster won’t fall on my house. It was also very expensive to remove… and I don’t regret it.