mature oak pruning

[vesna]

I have a huge, mature but very healthy  oak tree in  my back garden which  now severely reduces the amount of light and sun we get and the vegetation around the tree. I would like  I to prune it and received two different advice and dramatically different quotes from  two tree  surgeons. One advises to  severely prune the tree to  make the crown much smaller and the other  only lifting of the crown leaving the crown untouched.  If I just lift the canopy will the crown start gowning much faster next year and I will end up with even bigger canopy? Will I not get a lot of suckers  on my lawn? What is your advice?

Thank you kindly for your advice.

Vesna

[nepia]

9 minutes ago, Mick Dempsey said:

Dont know the moral of the story, but there we are.

 

 

That apparently you don't always have to provide customer satisfaction to get your money!

[maybelateron]

Ah yes, customers sometimes just won't listen. Did a commercial job back in 2004, previously pollarded Poplars being a small part of the job.

I suggested leave them well alone or fell. I even went as far as to say you may end up with three fluffy sticks covered in whiskers. No, we definitely want you to pollard it down to the three main trunks.

The time between the first and last photos is one year.

To end the day well, we broke down at Newark in our brand new LDV convoy, that was only a few weeks old, 70 miles from base. It turned out to be due to the "free tank of fuel" they threw in (quite literally almost) - it was from the bottom of there oil drum of dregs and had blocked the fuel filter!

[Mick Dempsey]

5 minutes ago, nepia said:

That apparently you don't always have to provide customer satisfaction to get your money!

You’ll get it once!

[maybelateron]

1 hour ago, maybelateron said:

it was from the bottom of there oil drum

Oops, typo, silly me should be "their"