Should I have my Norway Maple removed?
charmed
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Comments (3)Cut the secondary trunk off back to the main trunk. Remove branches annually (best done during dormant season... now) to 50% of tree height as the tree grows (when they're small so it's easier to do and it re-directs growth to the top... rather than into the unwanted trunk and branches.) To straighten it out, stake and guy this tree now (while it's young and flexible.) Looks like the little tree behind needs some of the same attention. Others will probably tell you, too...Silver Maple is not considered a very desirable tree as it has some bad habits. Hopefully you don't need a refined appearance down the road as it can become quite scruffy looking. It will look decent during its youth and teenage years, then begin to acquire a lot of dead wood. The wood is weak, too....See MoreNorway Maple Tree removal! Help!
Comments (6)Laws vary from state to state, but in much of New England trees located close to property boundaries are known as "line trees" and are considered to belong to both property owners. The roots of a Norway maple are extensive and usually extend well beyond the tree's canopy. Eight feet is awfully close to the foundation and house for a tree of this size. A poured monolithic foundation is quite resistant to any root penetration, but it's a very different story with block foundations and (especially) stone ones. A root with the diameter of a hair can penetrate through a very narrow opening and then gradually increase in diameter enough cause damage. jean001a's suggestion is a good one. The damage done to the roots by the neighbor's construction may well have created a dangerous situation for both you and your neighbor. Since you are very likely co-owners of the tree, you are equally responsible - including financially responsible - for removing the tree if that is the recommendation of a qualified arborist. Again, check your state laws on this. Stump grinding is usually a pretty minor expense compared to taking down a large tree in a location that requires lots of care to avoid damage to buildings, etc. Unless the roots have already penetrated the foundation, I don't see any way removing the stump would cause damage to it....See MoreShould I remove 100 ft Norway Spruce that's about 15 ft from my house.
Comments (49)The pic added by huggorm is not helpful to this discussion. Nothing remotely like that need be done here-as he himself does explain. Again, do as you please, but the doomers and gloomers here are going way off the tracks IMO. A few judicious pruning cuts would have that up and off your house in no time. Nor would it look ungainly. Now one thing to keep in mind-I have two-and especially one-very large, old arborvitaes-I don't know what cultivar but they look more or less like species except stay greener in winter.....and the seedlings thereof, which I collect regularly, grow unbelievably fast for an arb. In any case, the one in question is at the midway point of the front of my house, right adjacent to our front porch, so in a sense, badly out of scale with the house. These are big plants. But here's the thing: I like the tree more than I like the house and it provides a very nice, cool microclimate in warm weather up on that porch, holds uncountable birds and other critters, etc. So I'm not just thinking design elements here. And all of the attributes I'm listing for this big old arb could also apply to your spruce. I think another fallacy in play here is that one must always, everywhere, raise a tree up equally all the way around. Yes, I would normally do so too, but in certain cases-and this is one of them-an unbalanced approach can get you where you need to be. So in this scenario, more raising up would be done on the house side. Trust me, it can work....See MoreSugar Maple - close to house and girdling
Comments (21)Yes, from what I did read yesterday the girdling is pretty common. I have another maple in the front that is also suffering from girdling as well as verticillium wilt. That one has a very limited life. We are babying (extra watering, treatments) it for a few years but eventually it will have to come down. We had a lightening strike in our neighborhood just last night. Luckily it hit an old but very tall tree. Bad enough that the fire department came racing out as it was smoking. Never seen anything like that before. Tree didn't fall on the house but if it is not removed in the next few days, it might. For me, that was another sign that I am doing the okay thing....See Moreahughes798
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