Reductions

[stihlmadasever]

Does this qualify as a reduction..?

[dan494]

Most recent one I've got a photo of. Loads of decay where someone's taken out the centre of the tree at some point [emoji35]

 

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[Dillinger86]

Often tricky to do what is ideal and give the customer what they want..

 

 

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[jeanesy]

Here's one from a while back. Bit of a horror. Perfectly healthy lime that a customer wanted tonking because he was worried about it falling on the house.....🙄

[Steve Bullman]

Often tricky to do what is ideal and give the customer what they want..

 

 

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Absolutely, thats where the true skill lies. We are a service industry at the end of the day. Anyone who thinks otherwise is just kidding themselves

[Steve Bullman]

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Here's one from a while back. Bit of a horror. Perfectly healthy lime that a customer wanted tonking because he was worried about it falling on the house.....🙄

 

 

Well tonked

[Dillinger86]

Absolutely, thats where the true skill lies. We are a service industry at the end of the day. Anyone who thinks otherwise is just kidding themselves

 

 

Can only inform them of the consequences of the action taken I suppose. Any reduction that would be truly to a trees benefit would be undertaken with secateurs but that wouldn't be giving people much bang for their buck perhaps...?

 

 

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[AA Teccie (Paul)]

Sat in TLodge near Edinburgh airport having just delivered a BS3998 workshop today (I'm not really watching IaCGMoOH either...honest.)

 

Point taken, and acknowledged, about being a service industry and giving the customer what they want. The problem with that sometimes is the customer doesn't know any better / any different and they certainly don't know about BS3998 and what it recommends. Hence please don't just resign yourselves to undertaking such works without trying to educate the customer otherwise and, ideally, referring to the document "in person."

 

An honest view, whilst accepting the justifications for the 'heavy' crown reductions posted, and perhaps not surprisingly, most would have to be significantly bett...different for ARB Approved. An idealism perhaps, but one we shouldn't forget.

 

Thanks for reading,

Paul

[Steve Bullman]

Sat in TLodge near Edinburgh airport having just delivered a BS3998 workshop today (I'm not really watching IaCGMoOH either...honest.)

 

Point taken, and acknowledged, about being a service industry and giving the customer what they want.

 

Perhaps I wasn't entirely clear. Yes the customer doesn't know whats best for the tree for the most part, so its a case of reaching a compromise somewhere in the middle from my experience.

[Mick Dempsey]

Clients just love to be educated.