girdling

I need some help determining what to do with my ~40 y/o red maple with some pretty gnarly girdled roots. I bought my house a little over a year ago and there’s a beautiful red maple in the front yard. Unfortunately, it had a mulch volcano around the trunk and when I pulled it back, I ran into...

I bought a house with a tire swing. Its chain was secured around a 10" diameter branch. The branch is now so thick it is enveloping the chain, (nearly completely enveloped on top, and half way enveloped on the bottom of the the branch). The limb doesn't appear to be dying, to my untrained eye...