Heavy reduction on beech tree

[Steve Bullman]

Mostly chainsaw 

[devon TWiG]

That is a good example of how  a skilled and dedicated arborist can make a silk purse from a sows ear .....with a chainsaw ...well done !!      I have had to do some real hatchet jobs recently for ignorant customers and can well imagine other arbs driving by and shaking their heads in disbelief ....

Edited November 13, 2017 by devon TWiG

[devon TWiG]

This is a heavy reduction !!!!  90% ?   a 70ft beech tree reduced to 10-12 ft on main stem leaving one low limb to form a new small crown ( hopefully )   this tree is in a woodland , has major ustilinia , and the "aim " is to create a future  veteran specimen  this was the first job with a new ms661   , climbing with it !! 

Edited November 13, 2017 by devon TWiG

[Khriss]

Horrific work by the previous cutter - not too bad a save rely ! But the poor tree is going to suffer K

[Joe Newton]

Good save in the circumstances.
What was Newton doing on your patch anyway?

He might has well not have bothered, ill be going back to side up the other half tomorrow.

[wicklamulla]

16 hours ago, devon TWiG said:

That is a good example of how  a skilled and dedicated arborist can make a silk purse from a sows ear .....with a chainsaw ...well done !!      I have had to do some real hatchet jobs recently for ignorant customers and can well imagine other arbs driving by and shaking their heads in disbelief ....

yep me too.  On the udder hand I have done a few where the customer has asked me to do as I wished and I have been more sympathetic.

[Mick Dempsey]

Nice job.

 

The next door did not want a single twig hanging over his garden, as is his right.

 

Not his tree, not his problem. Cut it back to the boundary? No problem with that.

 

[wjotner]

Looks good. I would have done exactly the same. Shame on the "tree surgeons" who butchered it previously.

[Steve Bullman]

14 minutes ago, wjotner said:

Looks good. I would have done exactly the same. Shame on the "tree surgeons" who butchered it previously.

They were just working to a spec and providing for their families at the end of the day mate 

[TGB]

He might has well not have bothered, ill be going back to side up the other half tomorrow.

Now that's funny