Sean Freeman

Every tree will have defects, every tree will fail eventually, all comes down to target and in the opinion of the Arborist the likelihood or probability of failure, (and the sie of the part you think is most likely to fail first)

Targets in this pic seem to be the supply line and the road, also possibly the house.

Tend to agree with jim1nz and trev if the owner wanted to spend a large amount of resource on the tree some actions could be taken to reduce both the likelihood and the consequences of its failure, but whether such expenditure would be justified compared to establishing a replacement tree more suited to the location....well that would be down to the owner.

The options I would be putting front and centre to the client would be removal with replacement, assuming thats Brissy plenty of great small-medium sized natives that are grossly underplanted in the urban forest would suit that spot.

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Sean

Trees are poems that earth writes upon the sky,
We fell them down and turn them into paper,
That we may record our emptiness.
- Kahlil Gibran