Small eucalyptus reduction needed in Wincanton

[Big J]

Friends of ours in Wincanton have a fairly small eucalyptus in their back garden in need of reduction. 

 

It's an easy afternoons work. Nothing vulnerable underneath it, good access to the back garden and the tree is only about 40ft tall.

 

Please PM me if you can help.

 

Apologies for the lack of a photo. I can get one shortly.

[Big J]

The tree in question

[Mark Bolam]

They do know this is pointless don’t they?

[Big J]

1 minute ago, Mark Bolam said:

They do know this is pointless don’t they?

 

It's not nitens, so not super fast growing and it's been reduced in the past. What would you do instead?

[Doug Tait]

The risk now is a chorus of "fell and replant with something suitable" may follow...

[Mark Bolam]

Wrong Doug.

Fell and enjoy the view.

[Mark Bolam]

It hasn’t been ‘reduced’ in the past J, it’s been hammered, leaving 30’ pecker poles.

 

It wants putting out of it’s misery.

[Will C]

I think @Mark Bolam has said all the needs saying for the defence my Lord. 
 

bloody horrible trees I hate them

[Big J]

20 minutes ago, Mark Bolam said:

Wrong Doug.

Fell and enjoy the view.

 

18 minutes ago, Mark Bolam said:

It hasn’t been ‘reduced’ in the past J, it’s been hammered, leaving 30’ pecker poles.

 

It wants putting out of it’s misery.

 

It's not a great photo to be honest. It's actually a rather nice tree, though I am biased towards eucs

They don't need to open up the view as the garden is wide, so they have plenty of space to look at the fields. It's the only tree in the garden, and given that it's a fairly large garden, removing it would leave it lacking somewhat.

[Mark Bolam]

Fair do’s then J, but I wouldn’t reduce it.

I would ‘rollard’ it again, then rinse and repeat every 5 years.