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The arborist is the person influencing the decision making process. For better or worse. And when money is involved, there may (or may not be) a conflict of interest or impaired judgement on the part of the arborist. I fail to see this arborist as being impartial and unbiased.

I think maybe the someone in charge of the decision making process feels guilty that his forefathers contributed to the present day state of this goblin. But he just can't pull the trigger cause emotion is overruling common sense.

If an error in judgement is made, perhaps better to make it out of an abundance of caution rather than aesthetics and sentimentality! A threshold of "common sense" is telling me that tree ain't very happy, and struggling with this particular struggling specimen may be an exercise in futility.

Probably a safe bet to say that Alex Shigo would have no longer viewed that tree favourably, having lost it's "dignity". I wonder what Coder would say about keeping it around, given it's current declining state? I think there is a downward spiral involved here, and at some arbitrary point in...

An excellent pruning guidelines manual can be viewed here: http://www.forestry.uga.edu/outreach/pubs/pdf/forestry/Pruning%20Manual%20Arboritecture%20monograph%20pub08-13.pdf I enjoyed listening to the author of that, Dr. Coder deliver a talk on proper pruning practices at an Ontario Chapter...

But they don't. That is the difference between theory and reality.

Trees most certainly do have a biological clock.

Seems that some plastic surgeons would also advocate that giving 95 year old great grandmothers a facelift is also beneficial. This is like pouring parts and dropping coin into an old beater month after month. A good gig for the mechanic maybe, but hardly a sensible course of action in the...

I'm genuinely pleased to see this much common sense expressed in the posts above, and similarly over on Arboristste where the same video was posted. I suspect the Buzz community might be more likely to coddle that tree until it has only one live twig with 4 leaves on it.