Rate a Reduction Thread

[Joe Newton]

12 minutes ago, Mark Bolam said:

That’s a very tidy result, but it is totally pointless.

Post a pic in 2 years time and tell me I’m wrong.

 

Does anyone actually try and educate the customer as to what a reduction will achieve?

If I was captaining my own ship I'd do practically zero reductions, because its graft and pointless.

 

Unfortunately people like to use me for big tree reductions, so I get my fair share of them. It's so much worse knowing that you've made naff all difference when you're falling apart after a 2 day reduction over targets. 

[treevolution]

Reduction might sometimes be pointless but not always. 

 

The Eucalyptus is done every 3 years as maintenance. 

 

If you didn't reduce it then it would out grow its location and end up being felled. 

 

By pruning every 3 years you have a nice size tree in a suitable location offer lots to the environment and providing screening. 

 

[geoffers]

Lime reduction took 2.5 hours. I’ve booked them in already 🤪

[Mark Bolam]

10 minutes ago, treevolution said:

Reduction might sometimes be pointless but not always. 

 

The Eucalyptus is done every 3 years as maintenance. 

 

If you didn't reduce it then it would out grow its location and end up being felled. 

 

By pruning every 3 years you have a nice size tree in a suitable location offer lots to the environment and providing screening. 

 

Planting a more suitable tree in the first place would have been a much better option, but I get your drift.

 

Any tree is better than none.

[Ty Korrigan]

In France, there is a strong movement against 'reductions'

Thinning, deadwood, branch removal and lightly reducing the sides.

Reducing the height is considered bad practice.

Starting to see alot of lolipoped trees...

   Stuart

[Mick Dempsey]

44 minutes ago, Ty Korrigan said:

In France, there is a strong movement against 'reductions'

Thinning, deadwood, branch removal and lightly reducing the sides.

Reducing the height is considered bad practice.

Starting to see alot of lolipoped trees...

   Stuart

That’s just FB talk Stu. 
You make it sound like The Gilet Jaunes.
Lot of hot air and newly qualified peeps, all trying to outdo each other in the ‘righteous arb’ stakes. 

Edited March 16, 2022 by Mick Dempsey

[Mark Bolam]

The problem is people see badly reduced hatracked trees, often for no reason, and think - ‘Oh, I better get mine done like that then’.

 

The public are thick as pig shit, generally.

[Ty Korrigan]

17 minutes ago, Mick Dempsey said:

That’s just FB talk Stu. 
You make it sound like The Gilet Jaunes.
Lot of hot air and newly qualified peeps, all trying to outdo each other in the ‘righteous arb’ stakes. 

I bloody hope so but I dare not post any reductions of my own on French pages and my French climber is reticent about doing them.

I troll back by suggesting that French climbers are just unable to reach that high...

  

[Ty Korrigan]

I try and sell a lift and thin with a few tips tickled rather than a reduction where possible.

[Ty Korrigan]

This was what the neighbour to my client had done 2 years previously.

I had quoted but the owner looked at me at though I was chatting non-sense and told me "trees like being cut"

Still, they'll green up...

 

Edited March 16, 2022 by Ty Korrigan