Tree Care in Marion Center, MA

If you're looking at the trees around your Marion Center home and feeling concerned, you're not alone. Most of the properties here were built around 1938, which means the trees are pushing 90 years old. That's a full lifespan for many of the fast-growing species builders favored back then, like silver maple and Norway maple. They provided quick shade, but silver maples have notoriously weak wood and aggressive surface roots, while Norway maples are invasive and crowd out our native oaks and sugar maples. The challenge is that a tree can look fine from the outside for years while decay is hollowing it out from within. We use simple tools like a mallet to sound the trunk; solid wood rings clear, but decayed wood gives a dull thud, telling us what's happening inside long before a branch fails.