Some people! beech reduction, too much?

[Mark Bolam]

The guy is a cock, move on.

 

Why are ladders frowned upon so much?

 

22 Limes crown cleaned in the last two days, and without the trusty double extension it would have been a fair few less.

 

Not your best reduction Hamadryad, but I appreciate the spec was changing like the mercury in a thermometer!

[Rupe]

Nothign wrong with ladders......especially doign multiple limes!

 

But there is nothing easier than a beech to get a line into IMO.

[David Riding]

but the first picture was taken from a much closer position. The pictures make it look worse than it is.

 

I agree, if you had took photos from exactly the same spot it would not have looked anything like as severe.

[Mark Bolam]

Nothign wrong with ladders......especially doign multiple limes!

 

But there is nothing easier than a beech to get a line into IMO.

 

I was doing both Rupe!

 

I am getting bloody bone idle in my old age.....

[David Riding]

does make it look a lot less severe when photos are more in proportion to each other

[Rich Rule]

granted, but it still shows about 80 percent of the foliage has been removed.

[skyhuck]

 

Why are ladders frowned upon so much?

 

 

Because we're not window cleaners!!!

[Mark Bolam]

Couldn't have done those Limes as fast without them Huck, and that's a fact.

 

Don't get me started on people who work off them, mind. Scary. Access only here.

[Tom D]

I dont think there'e that much wrong with the job as such, however that is way more than 50% of the leaf area, much more like 80% and I also think that your client has a point, that level of reduction will have had a detrimental effect on the roots. Ok the crown is much smaller now and has a vastly reduced sail, but to say that has had no detrimental affect is wrong IMO. If you were asked to do as much as poss without damaging the tree I'd have said anything over 30% of the leaf area would be pushing it.

 

BTW if I ever do a reduction, I always quote a percentage, and always a height percentage at that. It is easier for the client to understand that way.

[David Humphries]

Tony, if you get the chance, I would like to see the canopy when the buds have broken.

 

Think that would make a really good visual for this interesting debate.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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