To make a bit of a provocative statement for discussion consider this.....
Isn't calling a qualified arborist with directions to treat a silver maple that has extensive (for discussion-has not been evaluated yet) basal decay and a large limb over the house that is about to fall off (again for discussion) ..........somewhat like catching a rat in a trap in your house, taking it to the veterinarian, having it's leg fixed, bringing it back and letting it go?
I know Treeseer wouldn't see it that way.
But consider it from both aspects. What if the animal trapped was a cute little feral kitty cat. We'd be falling all over each to save the pussy just like they do when one falls down a sewer pipe
. After the news is gone, straight to the shelter for a dose of gas.
Anyway, both organisms have apparently earned the reputation they wear. The rat for obvious reasons and the silver maple for the havoc it is associated with (and not innocently). They hold their leaves late into the early winter and get them way too early in spring. Wet snow is held by this foliage and the weak wooded and out of bounds growth has branches raining like cats and dogs.
Decay spreads very easily through them and the roots are an issue often.
It is a matter of being in the wrong place at the wrong time with the wrong characteristics.
Can anyone have sympathy for such ineptness?