SOLVED - Concerns about a cooking apple tree over 30 years old

[cookingappletree]

Thank you to both persons who answered. You have put my mind at ease about the tree.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited April 17, 2022 by cookingappletree
Question has been solved.

[Mick Dempsey]

Just get it reduced, it’ll be fine.

 

Be a shame to damage that fence though!

[Stere]

Can't see no fresh rot that hole  looks old / healed up

 

I see nothing around that can be damaged by that apple tree. The  tree looks the only thing decent in the whole garden tbh...

 

Id leave tree alone unless you want to prune it to increase fruit yield and that is best  done sympathetically over a period of several yrs not massacred, in a oner.....

 

Unless you do hate trees that is.....

[cookingappletree]

Thank you both