"Soft pruning"

[Khriss]

I like trees.... Anyway 'Death of Stalin' on netflix ? K

[Ty Korrigan]

Netflix 'Ottoman'

[Stere]

Reading up on oak pollard seems stubs and or sap risers are traditional

 

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Traditionally the Quercustrees were cut leaving a sap riser or tire sève (literally pull
sap) which was left just for a few years after cutting. This would also act to shade the
tree as well as draw sap. Leaving one sap riser worked well in trees cut every 9-10
years but may not be enough if they have lapsed for longer, thus more branches need
to be left.

 

 

& shreds look like

 

 

Edited January 31, 2020 by Stere

[Khriss]

19 hours ago, Ty Korrigan said:

Netflix 'Ottoman'

I dont need anymore sofas... 

[The avantgardener]

22 hours ago, Ty Korrigan said:

Well, aside from my NPTC, experience and horticultural certificates (none of which are recognised in France)

I thought NPTC certs where widely recognised in Europe, Australia, New Zealand and Canada, I certainly know guys over the years who have worked in all these countries. 
What’s the recognised certification to work in Forestry or Arb in France then?

[NFG]

Yes, as Mick stated - fundamentalism

 

I pruned a friends Magnolia, it was quite large and also making its way towards power cables, so it got a fairly harsh reduction. Numerous neighbours came and gave the blank 'galic stare', the occaisional 'ooh la la' and 'il ne fleurira jamais' - it will never flower.

 

Anyway said friend delighted with result and Magnolia has flowered profusely ever since, much to the dismay of neighbours who remain in utter disbelief and have probably not opened their shutters since.

 

Just dump your post on Fb and block the trolls

Edited January 30, 2020 by NFG

[Khriss]

Itz called Pruning Response in Any Language... K

[Khriss]

@Ty Korrigan just put on War Machine on Netflix, Brad Pitt Ben Kingsley in Afghanistan. Fucking hilareous! K

[Ty Korrigan]

You can still work here as self employed.

Difficulty is finding employment when your NPTC are not 'au norm' with the French system.

This is a strange contradiction in that you may not be easily employed yet work for yourself and even employ.

No official bodies seem interested in 'controling' the trade.

Even my insurance company cannot issue a certificate with anything more concrete of detailed than 'pruning'

Very few foreign qualifications are recognised in France. This is most obvious in the number of foreigners working in medicine, something I notice on every hospital visit.

My wife has 2 diplomas, one from a Swiss international business school.

Here, the French board who approves foreign qualifications wrote back to tell her neither where valid to obtain France.

So again for her self employment (running an arb business) is the way forward (and mine too!)

#sleepingwithaccountants

#alifeinthemerde

  Stuart

 

 

 

[Ty Korrigan]

Update, my new subby climber (French lad) tells me that 'reductions' as we know them are no longer taught as part of the French 'certificate de specialisation' for arboriculture.

I showed him many images of U.K reductions, my own work and that of others where the tendance is to prune to a downward sloping growth point.

In France, this groups philosophy is to leave vertical growth points and never reduce the height.

A great influence in this movement appears to a British man, William Moore.

Biographie de William Moore

WWW.ARBRE.NET

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