Boundary cut back

[Carl1991]

Hi All, bit of a rookie question but what's the exact rule regarding cutting back overhanging branches. Just to boundary at risk of leaving a stub or not a textbook growth point? or can you can back to trunk neatly? Imagine tree say overhanging customer'sgarden but inside neighbours garden by a foot or so .Cheers

[Baldbloke]

If you were my neighbouring farmer you just use your Matbro to break off the limb by tearing it off at the trunk. I
Don’t know about south of border but believe you can trim off boughs directly above your ground. Neatly would be good to limit disease prospects.

[htb]

Normal for farmer pruning, our neighbor the same. Why buy a chainsaw when your subsidy payment lets you buy a nice warm tractor/ handler to do thepruning

[Mick Dempsey]

1 hour ago, Baldbloke said:

If you were my neighbouring farmer you just use your Matbro to break off the limb by tearing it off at the trunk. I
Don’t know about south of border but believe you can trim off boughs directly above your ground. Neatly would be good to limit disease prospects.

Habitat? fracture pruning? Does no one think of ecology?

[htb]

1 minute ago, Mick Dempsey said:

Habitat? fracture pruning? Does no one think of ecology?

So its true then farmers are the custodians of the countryside

[Baldbloke]

Our local farmers aren’t the best at respecting anything that impacts on their farming interests. Our property and the churchyard are the only immediate areas with mature trees. Some farmers life’s work appears to be to remove every tree possible

[Mark Bolam]

Remember also you need permission from the neighbour to climb their tree.

[Conor Wright]

2 minutes ago, Baldbloke said:

Our local farmers aren’t the best at respecting anything that impacts on their farming interests. Our property and the churchyard are the only immediate areas with mature trees. Some farmers life’s work appears to be to remove every tree possible

 

1 hour ago, Baldbloke said:

If you were my neighbouring farmer you just use your Matbro to break off the limb by tearing it off at the trunk. I
Don’t know about south of border but believe you can trim off boughs directly above your ground. Neatly would be good to limit disease prospects.

Sounds about right, however the matbro technique is rarely in use around ere, most opt for the hitachi 130 pruner.. with the odd exception being the doze it out with a transport box technique.. often soon followed by the ' jaysus, call in the hitachi, its going to fall on a sheep/the tractor/the road' emergency reduction procedure.. 

[Mick Dempsey]

To be fair to farmers, and I come from a family in the farming business.

The last thing they need is a bunch of arborists or whatever they call themselves, lecturing them on ecology and tree care.

 

[Shane]

All our local land owning farmers don't seem to care about anything that doesn't make money for them. 

There might be a nice one somewhere but I've never met him.