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Lee192233

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Good evening fellow AS members,

I was wondering what you guys thought of this limb. It's about 8" where it splits from the trunk. It hangs over my yard and looks out of place from my house. Can I prune it back without damaging my highly valuable silver maple tree? Sarcasm intended. ;)

I don't want to introduce rot. It's a big tree but as far as silver maples go it's pretty small. My hesitation is I don't want to lose the tree because I'm already losing half my treeline view to EAB. 20210409_182814.jpg
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Thanks for any input,
Lee
 
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