Whats your least favourite tree to climb and why?

[Bob Rolfe]

hate topping conifer

 

[buffalo606]

Phoenix palm:  poisonous stabbing spikes, rats, doesn't really chip, heavy.  They look pretty though.

[Thesnarlingbadger]

Gotta hate a dead robinia or pop, snappy horrible things that you can’t rig off of.
Hangers can be a pain in the backside when reducing ash or chestnut but I tend to assume that’s going to happen and don’t get to disheartened when it does happen.

[Mark Bolam]

Anyone else going to fess up to removing odd limbs that weren’t in the spec just because they pissed you off one time too many?

[Rich Rule]

Guilty as charged.  The 3 strike rule...  I will give them 2 chances the third time it twigs me in the eye or up me snout...  see ya later.

 

 

[Rough Hewn]

I don't climb yet, but cutting and dragging hawthorn or blackthorn is a nightmare.
After a few days of such a friend saw my forearms and asked if I was self harming?
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[Darrin Turnbull]

1 hour ago, Rough Hewn said:

I don't climb yet, but cutting and dragging hawthorn or blackthorn is a nightmare.
After a few days of such a friend saw my forearms and asked if I was self harming?

Bad enough , but firethorn or pyracantha. Is worse.

the stuff should be banned 

[stihlmadasever]

Monteray cypress and busy wide canopied cherrys are a bitch.

I say cherrys cause ive just had to reduce 6 now that the blossoms dropped.

Oh and limes,id gladly rid the country of every one of those epi sproutin bastards.

[felixthelogchopper]

1 hour ago, Darrin Turnbull said:

Bad enough , but firethorn or pyracantha. Is worse.

the stuff should be banned 

Don't forget the joy that is Berberis.

[Steve Bullman]

i've had a berberis thorn in my back for years, pretty certain it never came out or broke down.  Can feel it still.  I did go to the doctors at the time but he didn't want to prod about with it too much as it was so close to my spine.