Can there's vines all over my tree be fixed without removing the tree?
Yes, and the fix is cheap and largely do-it-yourself. Cut every vine through at chest height and again near the ground, remove the short section between the two cuts, and leave everything above to die in place — pulling live ivy off a trunk tears bark away with it, and hauling dead ivy down out of a canopy is both dangerous and unnecessary. Then clear the ivy off the ground in a wide ring around the base so it cannot simply re-climb, and expect to repeat the exercise for two or three years. What not to do: leave it because it looks handsome, or attack the trunk with a pressure washer or a scraper.
How long you have to decide
Years, and nothing about the vine itself will drop a limb tomorrow. What shifts is the risk profile in weather: a canopy carrying a full ivy load holds snow and ice it was never built for and catches wind in winter when the tree ought to be bare, so the failure ivy causes shows up in an ice storm rather than on a calm day. The other thing that changes is diagnostic — every season the ivy stays on is another season the trunk goes unexamined, so a defect that should have been caught early keeps growing behind it. Cut the vines this year and the trunk is readable next year.
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