Whitebeam pollarding??

[Paul87]

Can a mature whitebeam tree be pollarded? Have a large tree that needs reducing in size and wondering whether it can be reduced by pollarding? Hearing that in some cases they don't take we'll to hard-pruning, and then some say they respond well. Any advice would be great!

[woody paul]

Reduce by 50% would be less of a shock.

[Paul87]

Thanks for the advice guys. When you're talking about reducing by 50% and hard-pruning for the whitebeam, can I do something like what's in this picture? I'd actually like to take more off than what's shown in the photo, but don't want to hit it too hard either?? 

[Husqvarna King]

31 minutes ago, Paul87 said:

Thanks for the advice guys. When you're talking about reducing by 50% and hard-pruning for the whitebeam, can I do something like what's in this picture? I'd actually like to take more off than what's shown in the photo, but don't want to hit it too hard either?? 

I think if you want to do that to it why not fell and replant.

[5 shires]

17 hours ago, Paul87 said:

Can a mature whitebeam tree be pollarded? Have a large tree that needs reducing in size and wondering whether it can be reduced by pollarding? Hearing that in some cases they don't take we'll to hard-pruning, and then some say they respond well. Any advice would be great!

Give it a Crown Lift,Remove first 3 Lower Limbs then do 30% to 40% Reduction and thin out,tree will still look fine but less volume and canopy.

[Paul87]

Thanks for your input guys. I'm going to play it safe on this one and do 30% reduction on the canopy and remove a couple of the larger limbs. Have a good week!

[stihlmadasever]

Ive hit whitebeams hard,not pollarding but heavy prune during the winter and never had an issue.

Not sure if pollarding is the best answer tbh