Full crown reductions on Pine trees?

[Lee Winger]

I butchered dozens well as they say 'the customer is always right'

[D Mc]

No, just honest.

 

I don't kid myself that trees NEED me, they don't.

 

Wrong on both counts. I have read enough of your posts to know that you are a very intelligent tree worker. You do have the abilities to positively affect trees' lives.

 

I have been doing residential tree work for over 40 years. There are literally thousands of trees still standing that would not be had I not intervened in their favor. These things can be as simple as removing a branch rubbing against a roof to very complex structural problems that needed expert advice, and subsequent work, to allow the tree's survival.

 

Please do not get lost in the differences in the urban environment and natural forest. Tree failure and the resulting deadwood are the life of the forest. This is a complex web of connections that, whether we believe it or not, we are a part of. But that's another topic.

 

Urban trees are there by themselves in a sense. Their survival is dependent on how they interact in this altered environment. If they do not satisfy us, they are gone. But the very fact that we keep planting them and protecting what we can is proof that they are important to us.

 

That's where you come in making it work in the residential areas.

 

Dave

[Graham]

Wrong on both counts. I have read enough of your posts to know that you are a very intelligent tree worker. You do have the abilities to positively affect trees' lives.

 

I have been doing residential tree work for over 40 years. There are literally thousands of trees still standing that would not be had I not intervened in their favor. These things can be as simple as removing a branch rubbing against a roof to very complex structural problems that needed expert advice, and subsequent work, to allow the tree's survival.

 

Please do not get lost in the differences in the urban environment and natural forest. Tree failure and the resulting deadwood are the life of the forest. This is a complex web of connections that, whether we believe it or not, we are a part of. But that's another topic.

 

Urban trees are there by themselves in a sense. Their survival is dependent on how they interact in this altered environment. If they do not satisfy us, they are gone. But the very fact that we keep planting them and protecting what we can is proof that they are important to us.

 

That's where you come in making it work in the residential areas.

 

Dave

 

Extremely well put:thumbup:

[Ian Flatters]

Agreed well put sir.

[skyhuck]

Wrong on both counts. I have read enough of your posts to know that you are a very intelligent tree worker. You do have the abilities to positively affect trees' lives.

 

I have been doing residential tree work for over 40 years. There are literally thousands of trees still standing that would not be had I not intervened in their favor. These things can be as simple as removing a branch rubbing against a roof to very complex structural problems that needed expert advice, and subsequent work, to allow the tree's survival.

 

Please do not get lost in the differences in the urban environment and natural forest. Tree failure and the resulting deadwood are the life of the forest. This is a complex web of connections that, whether we believe it or not, we are a part of. But that's another topic.

 

Urban trees are there by themselves in a sense. Their survival is dependent on how they interact in this altered environment. If they do not satisfy us, they are gone. But the very fact that we keep planting them and protecting what we can is proof that they are important to us.

 

That's where you come in making it work in the residential areas.

 

Dave

 

 

:congrats:

 

 

A very good point, very well made!!

 

I will try harder to educate my customers!!

[tree monkey]

That is a well written post

Thanks for enlightening us to wat our purpose is in arb.

[Albedo]

You are both right Skyhuck and DMC

 

Skyhuck is right in that what we do – reduction, thinning etc is, often, not what the tree itself needs to have done to it. Therefore, by extension, naming yourself “xxx Tree Care”, often feels hypocritical. My firm is called “xxx Tree Care” and I often feel a little bit hypocritical as the work I carry out can hardly be described as ‘care’, solely in respect of the tree itself.

 

However part of D Mc‘s point is that it does, in the context of trees and buildings, constitute a compromise between the wants of the tree and the wants of the offending building or structure or client. Said works may lead to the extension of the life of the tree within this environment etc

 

Scots Pines are a good example as they get very big. Too big for urban environments. They survive being topped (which in this case is what reduction is), and can still look ok (arguably). The customer still has a tree. People are selfish, they will not replant. They do not give a xxx about the future, they want it now!!!!

 

Perhaps we should have, “xxxx Urban Flora Conflict Resolution Specialist” written on our trucks

[Albedo]

oops, think flora is animals , should read 'Fauna' in above post. Or just 'tree' might be simpler

[Amelanchier]

Nope you were right the first time.

[skyhuck]

Nope you were right the first time.

 

If he wasn't, I dread to think what goes into that butter alternative!!!!:scared1: