I hope this is the right board for this... mods move if not!

My parents have a large silver maple tree on their property that's looking like it needs to come down. It's very old, and the trunk is maybe 3 feet in diameter or so.

The tree guy that looked at it said "silver maple isn't usually great wood" and that it might not be worth using. Any truth to that? I've never used silver maple before and would hate to let some giant slabs go to waste if they could be used or sold to someone who could get some use out of them.

(This assumes of course that the trunk isn't rotten; I think it's the limbs that are giving them trouble but I'm not certain yet).