Would you class this as good tree surgery

[Gary Prentice]

Well, it's not a problem for me to leave it to you sober purists in the UK, brother.

 

Jomoco

 

I'm not suggesting that that you take your bat and ball home, I just can't really get my head around you.

 

 

I'll admit I may be aiming at being a purist but sober?

[MattyF]

Well, it's not a problem for me to leave it to you sober purists in the UK, brother.

 

Jomoco

 

 

There is times and places for such work but there is no time imo for people who do work on public trees that look like they have tied a chainsaw to there dogs tail and swung it around on a rope leaving perfectly healthy trees mutilated for ever because they could not do the job properly for what ever crap excuse , some thing should be done about it ! If it makes me a purist to try and talk people out of such mutilating and the difference to good and bad tree work and taking the time to try and show my staff how to do it properly I've been called far worse things

Interestingly I've worked on many lime pollard avenue street trees and it amazes me how many people complain when you trim off 2-5 years regrowth and call you many names despite these trees judging by the bowls originally started off on this rotation in the 1920's ! So not every one appreciates a hat rack ! Also to summarise I always had 3/4 months work booked ahead and I never topped a tree in those 10 years I ran my own firm.

[Backpain]

In my experience most people are thick when it comes to tree's. Although there are a minority of very passionate and sometimes inspiring group who seem to see sense and don't mind cleaning up leaves. I've got to take down a huge twisted Hazel next week which has never been pruned, its been used as a bargaining tool by a neighbour to also a leaning Silver Birch on a joint boundary to be felling. I could fell it on his Porsche.

[WesD]

drove past this today and couldn't help but think of this thread.

 

 

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[Mark Bolam]

I like it.

It looks a bit like Stick Man.

[eggsarascal]

Did the same firm do the Tarmacing?

[Mick Dempsey]

I also like it, is there no room for creativity in this business?

[Arctostaphylos uva-ursi]

Could you take that photo down please. That is one of my lapsed pollard restorations and I don't want it mocked.

[Gary Prentice]

Modern Art?

[Gary Prentice]

Could you take that photo down please. That is one of my lapsed pollard restorations and I don't want it mocked.

 

Doesn't it have to be a pollard, before it becomes a 'lapsed pollard', chronologically speaking?