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Originally Posted by Ekka  Interesting politics all round.
By the way, dont all large over mature trees fail eventually anyway unless man intervenes?
Trees go through a cycle, young saplings, semi mature, mature, over mature, veteran (look out!)
On comparison we dont have as many planted specimens that old. Like the place was only found by Capt Cook in what 1770. And around 1800 started to populate.
So pretty much everything is a native and oaks, birch etc that were introduced are all under 200 year old.
But what i have noticed is big old trees fail eventually. It's the cycle. Left to their own means they lose the top, a branch here or there etc etc and slowly die back and eventually become mulch for the others.
Has this tree had it's day? Is it on the downward cycle of it's life? |
The downward cycle of a silver maple is usually evidenced by failure of out of architecture leaders, usually an overextended top blows out or ice/wet snow take them out. Patterns of decay ensue. Not unlike the fabricated Bradford Pear on a smaller scale. The arborist intervenes at the appropriate time (based on many factors ) or the breakage lets you know it is time.
P.S. Is Treeseer a moderator now? Treeseer, I was just laughing with you, not at you. Got a lot of respect for you. Have told you before on AS, We will agree on something again in the future.
