Large Overgrown Conny

[maybelateron]

7 hours ago, Mick Dempsey said:

How big would you envisage letting a C of L getting that situation and how regularly do you think it should be pruned?

A newly planted C of L won't be an issue in our lifetime. Planted one at home in the paddock 10 yrs ago to mark out fiftieths. Never going to need pruning in my lifetime!

[maybelateron]

It just needs to go, zero merit in reducing, let alone cutting back the sides to make it look worse.

[Chipperclown]

The biggest question is how much to remove including stump, basically the question I face a few times a week (if I am lucky!)

[Jack.P]

what about offering to leave the trunk in and make it into a seat .

 

[oldwoodcutter]

The bread n butter of every start up to lifelong tree firm, straight fell manky connie onto that grass,cut up and clear, grind stump or recommend putting a flower tub on it if you haven’t got the time or inclination to grind the sod out, and want to undercut someone that’s quoted to leave it as flat as a witches tit.

[Dan Maynard]

Last Sunday I subbed as climber to take 25% off the top of two pines and "bring the sides in a bit". Apparently while I was up the second one the customer had already asked for a price to fell the first, it looked so awful.

I wouldn't mind but it would have been so much easier to dismantle the whole thing in the first place than untangle the top and fight it down over the rest of the tree.

I don't think you can ever shape it in really as the corners go thin, so the only possibility is the flat top cut-in-half conifer look. Then snip in the longer laterals.

I would price the reduction the same as the fell and let them decide.

[Steve Bullman]

She could always have the trunk carved into a tribute to her father 

[trigger_andy]

13 minutes ago, Steve Bullman said:

She could always have the trunk carved into a tribute to her father 

Following on in that vein I wonder if there is enough trunk there to be milled into slabs? Make a nice chunky Park Bench and maybe even a Side Table? 

[Rough Hewn]

Yeah fell and mill.
Could make a few nice resin tables from that [emoji106]

[aspenarb]

Without a doubt its got to go, not so sure I would plant another tree there, considering the total lack of privacy I think I would be planting a decent hedge and go for some screening.

 

Bob