Advice please - Yew reduction

[Stubby]

Give it a spanking.

It will be dead within a few thousand years anyway.

 

 

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True but .

[warren]

Thanks all for the comments. i shall talk to the customer and talk myself out of earning money

[Jake Andrews]

Thanks all for the comments. i shall talk to the customer and talk myself out of earning money

Short sighted mate. Good work may earn you more customers and therefore more money. Bad work can earn you a bad name and less customers. Especially in a tight community like a church.

 

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[Rough Hewn]

You're a professional!

You have a specialist education and training!

As a bona fide contractor, the client can "ask" you to do

a job a certain way. But you have the final say.

Explain to the client nicely, and often they will respect your informed opinion.

But I also know what it's like to "really need that job".

I think jake has a very valid point.

Good luck mate.

[Arctostaphylos uva-ursi]

I would recommend that you read The Ancient Yew A History of Taxus Baccata by Robert Bevan Jones and then put your saws away. You can then continue to drive past the yew safe in the knowledge that the tree will not only outlive you but your children, their children, their children's children and so on!

This is one tree that is well equipped to look after itself. If you must cut something, continue to cut back any ivy regrowth.

[Marc]

Branches at risk to snow usually stick out proud of the canopy profile allowing them to gather more snow, noting looks to proud on the the pictures you show just as you say a little bare in the centre, Yew is pretty hardy though so unlikely to be an issue.

 

If you must a light prune to give a balanced profile (not symmetrical as trees are rarely perfect)

 

We have removed 50% of the foliage in one bit before on mature Yews without issue then repeatedly battered them not condoning it but they do tolerate heavy handed actions.

[Joe Newton]

You're a professional!

You have a specialist education and training!

As a bona fide contractor, the client can "ask" you to do

a job a certain way. But you have the final say.

Explain to the client nicely, and often they will respect your informed opinion.

But I also know what it's like to "really need that job".

I think jake has a very valid point.

Good luck mate.

 

 

Doesn't the client have the final say?

 

You can then continue to drive past the yew safe in the knowledge that the tree will not only outlive you but your children, their children, their children's children and so on!

 

 

Assuming that nobody else did the work.