Originally posted by murphy4trees
Well I looked at that tree last fall and though I don't remember the exact conversation, I must have told her not to worry about it since she was selling the house this spring....
Think of the advise you gave beyond the fact that there was some elevated risk of failure.
It sounds like you may have advised the client to sell the property with a tree with a known defect. Not only questionable from an ethical point of view, but from a legal point of view.
IMO we should render professional advise as to assumed risk of failure, whether on the 3 point scale (high, medium, low) or 5 or how ever you want to parse it.
Then have the disclaimer that "any tree can fail under the wrong conditions"
In a yard the target value is allways high so it is a moot point.
The client needs to descide what their level of risk tolerance is. You just give then amm the options.
removal, reduction to mitigate risk, cabling to mitigate risk and/or to atempt to create a "fail safe" situation.
say this happend after the sale, and the tree comapny who did the insurance work told them that "this tree should have come down a long time ago!" then they went after the sellor, who gives the lawyers your name....
