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I tend to agree with you. Not one of my choices to plant, but these were here as part of a grove, and have 'forest' charateristics. Since they were here longer, I'm favoring them to keep and nurture, especially compared to Norway maple.

Hmm... Well, heavy pruning is out. What makes the limbs I mentioned unusual to me, is the growth lower on the stem. They probably predate the maple, but it was still shady and sheltered. Higher up would have given the tree a better return on the investment.

This might be an unknowable question. On my office job I was scouting maples to remove, and a fly in the ointment was a decent maple that was growing next to a pine that had sprouted a couple nice lower branches in what I think was later development. It was certainly a choice by the tree, but a...