proper pruning 75' tulip

[dadio]

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJ4Zr6WdjMo]tulip tip prune .mov - YouTube[/ame]

 

Here's the latest effort at promoting proper pruning technique... It was originally intended to inform homeowners about good pruning and the harm that improper pruning can do.. A bit repetitive but overall a good low budget effort.

 

I have another one coming, which was shot right after an early snow storm did a lot of damage, as many trees were still in full leaf..

[defenderjack]

daniel , do you really think those few 6 inch cuts will send that tree into an "early grave " what about the thousands of trees still standing a hundred years on from natural tears and fractures that occur ,

[RobArb]

I can get to the tips with my rope and harness thank you very much:biggrin:

 

I hate it when people presume its only possible to get to the tips from a mewp!

 

Ps, STUUUUUBBSSSSS!

 

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Edited November 20, 2011 by RobArb

[John Shutler]

daniel , do you really think those few 6 inch cuts will send that tree into an "early grave " what about the thousands of trees still standing a hundred years on from natural tears and fractures that occur ,

 

how many of them a poor at compatmentalising decay? not many i reckon

oaks beech sweet chestnut maybe, but tulip trees, poplar, willow, horsechestnut, birch will rot out

[Adam Bourne]

whats with the stubs?

 

 

do you not have any target cut standards over there?

[Treecreeper1961]

I can get to the tips with my rope and harness thank you very much:biggrin:

 

I hate it when people presume its only possible to get to the tips from a mewp!

 

Ps, STUUUUUBBSSSSS!

 

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It is a shame, stubs apart it looks like a reasonably proportioned reduction. Bloody hard to do, near impossible on some trees with rope and harness.

 

I attended a seminar on interpreting the recommendations of BS3998:2010. The need for accurately specifying reductions was stressed due to the potential for percentage specifications being interpreted differently by different folk. Volume percentage reductions backed up by length of branches removed.

That is all well and said but in my experience if you are working to those specs. stub cuts are going to be a problem. Seems to me that drop crotch pruning is the best way to describe reductions like this. Some trees just seem impossible to reduce the volume without stuuubbs, as all branches reach for and end at the outer canopy, especially the sympodial growth of sycamores.It is then almost a case of stubs or just thinning the outer edge of the crown creating a wavy uneven silhouette.

Unfortunately, a lot of reductions I end up doing are way too sever, fighting the tide of outdated thinking.

 

Do you know what I mean or is it just me, trees don't always or often conform to the 'best' way of doing things.

[Paul Barton]

It is a shame, stubs apart it looks like a reasonably proportioned reduction. Bloody hard to do, near impossible on some trees with rope and harness.

 

I attended a seminar on interpreting the recommendations of BS3998:2010. The need for accurately specifying reductions was stressed due to the potential for percentage specifications being interpreted differently by different folk. Volume percentage reductions backed up by length of branches removed.

That is all well and said but in my experience if you are working to those specs. stub cuts are going to be a problem. Seems to me that drop crotch pruning is the best way to describe reductions like this. Some trees just seem impossible to reduce the volume without stuuubbs, as all branches reach for and end at the outer canopy, especially the sympodial growth of sycamores.It is then almost a case of stubs or just thinning the outer edge of the crown creating a wavy uneven silhouette.

Unfortunately, a lot of reductions I end up doing are way too sever, fighting the tide of outdated thinking.

 

Do you know what I mean or is it just me, trees don't always or often conform to the 'best' way of doing things.

 

I think I get what you are saying, but I don't understand the sentence about stubs if working to BS3998:2010. The BS quite clearly states that stubs are not acceptable (see section 7.2.5).

[Treecreeper1961]

Yes of course, stub cuts are only recommended in some specialist restoration work.

 

I am just struggling with the fact that the growth habit of some trees make it impossible to reduce the crown to a specified amount and avoid stub cuts, with few or no suitable branches/twigs within the crown to cut back to.

[MattyF]

Yes of course, stub cuts are only recommended in some specialist restoration work.

 

I am just struggling with the fact that the growth habit of some trees make it impossible to reduce the crown to a specified amount and avoid stub cuts, with few or no suitable branches/twigs within the crown to cut back to.

 

Sycamore and ash reductions 25% both done from rope and harness , Its possible just takes time and effort ,sycamore took about 4-5 hours from what I rembember.

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[RobArb]

Nice jobs... Proper:thumbup:

 

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