Tree Care in Sharon, MA

If you're a homeowner in Sharon, you're likely living with trees planted when your house was built, around 1954. That means you have 70-year-old specimens reaching the end of their natural lifespans. Many of these are the wrong trees for the long term. You'll see mature silver maples, prized by builders for their fast growth, which now have weak wood and surface roots that threaten foundations and walkways. You'll also see Bradford pears, which are beautiful but structurally guaranteed to split after 15-20 years. The challenge is that internal decay can be active for years before any external symptom, like a fungal conk, appears on the trunk. We use simple tools like a mallet to sound the trunk; solid wood rings clear, while decayed wood sounds dull, giving us a first clue about what's happening inside.