not my tree, and she is rather sentimental about it.. she wants me to prune it for her as the never has, and that ice storm bent the branches over extremely bad... i told her it may die, and she wanted nothing of that...

the bark at that point, is rather thick, i can see the clean meat of the tree in some holes, but its hard to capture it with a camera without shining light into there... its almost a burl at that point...

id like to cut it down, but shes not set on it yet... it it snaps, it will destroy the fence and damage and corner of our house, because its also leaning due to the branches hanging over...

the problem i have with this situation, she will not pay me...so i have to prune, and haul away the debris to keep from our stuff from getting smashed...

not too enthused about that..

and it still could snap at the knuckle and do whatever as well...

Abu, the fag sh!t is really getting annoying...