Trees, Shrubs and Conifers: Training Young Trees, 1 by Muddy1

Muddy1 wrote:
Vossner, perhaps the top, supple part of your tree can be trained to grow upright enough to balance the tree's weight.

These photos are of a Maple that had grown in this shape by the time we bought our house. It grew like this because it was surrounded by other trees and, obviously no one thought about training it to have a strong leader.

The bend in its trunk is similar to the one in Vossner's tree, but it's doing okay. If/when it gets a lot taller and especially if it starts looking diseased, though, I might be quicker to take it down because its very close to our house.