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I saw the same thing with the hinge wood. You will get just a little bit of steer but it’s going to break quick. On my first one I needed a 6 ft steer to the right. Not much for any other tree I normally do but the maple wouldn’t hold for that. When I dropped the final top I only needed a 2ft...

Here’s a picture of the actual tree. Was about 36in dbh and seemed quite healthy. That back leader was quite large. I had to set a rigging line through two small unions in the top right leader and swing the back leader around in 4 different pieces. The wood at the anchor seemed to hold the...

On the topic of silver maples. I took down my first “big” one this last week. Had a very wide spreading canopy and seemed very healthy but the customer wanted it gone for other plans with the space. What I noticed is the hinge properties absolutely sucked! Seemed to hold lots of weight while...