Educate me

[westphalian]

I know nothing of arboriculture. Came across this oak on a walk.

What would be the purpose of pruning it like this?

[Mark Bolam]

Money.

[Steve Bullman]

Its possible all the ends were dying back prior to the reduction, who knows

[swinny]

Looks like some bark missing on left hand side.  Pre or post work who knows. Hardly any folliage there. 

 

Maybe last chance salloon to see if  it flushes or someones tried to get it to naturally re trench. 

 

Could have had significant die back also before works?

Edited September 5, 2018 by swinny

[westphalian]

But wouldn’t removing more foliage further weaken tree?

And why not remove all the dead branches from the stem?

[nepia]

Could just be the client's insisted spec.

[Mick Dempsey]

Without knowing the whole story speculation is pointless.

 

Leave the slagging off of crap work to newbies on Arbtalk FB.

[Gary Prentice]

1 hour ago, Mick Dempsey said:

Without knowing the whole story speculation is pointless.

 

Mick, obviously the tree had grown too big and therefore dangerous, so had to be 'reduced'. Don't you know nuffin bout trees? 

[Mark Bolam]

No one has slagged it off or said it’s crap work though Mick!

 

[Mick Dempsey]

Don’t be disingenuous Mark!

 

Seriously though it’s as boring as hell, load of virtue signally by peeps trying to think of new ways of describing how bad it is and tagging others with “did you do this?”

 

Pointless.