Rate a Reduction Thread

[Ty Korrigan]

I also find it disheartening working on a previously badly pruned tree.

I get alot of urban trees people want retaining that have been through some very unkind hands.

This oak was one where I again failed to sell my ideas to the client.

It has a huge 'amplere' as they say here massive wide crown, quite a local reference.

It now has a great deal of bacterial flux on the stem, strong enough to smell when cycling past.

 

[Dan Maynard]

5 hours ago, Mark Bolam said:

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.

What I find most disheartening is when I work hard to reduce carefully so it almost looks like it hasn't been cut, and the customers answer is "oh I thought you'd take more off"

 

Last time this happened I'd taken about 12 feet out of a birch and they waited till we'd tidied and raked up before coming out with it. Closest I have come to losing my cool with a customer - decided we'd have lunch break while they had a think and when we came back they decided they liked it after all.

 

Sometimes I think it would be easier to mow it all off to stubs, customers probably just as happy.

[benedmonds]

The anti reduction brigade should consider the long term consequences of not reducing trees. 

There is a place for reductions in urban areas and they can keep trees looking OK. 

 

I put in an application today to reduce a TPO'd sycamore that we have done previously in 2006,  2013, 2017 and now again in 2022.  I am pretty sure I recommended its removal in 2006 but the council would not go with that.  I have had another 4 days work since maintaining it.

 

 

[treevolution]

Completely agree. 

 

Below is a Cedar reduction I did a few months ago. 

Reason was to reduce the chance of snap outs and for the client to feel more confident in keeping the tree. 

 

Also a large Poplar in the back ground which I reduced the regrowth for the same reason. 

 

 

[Stubby]

On 11/03/2022 at 18:58, josharb87 said:

Stubby cuts particularly on top,

I'm not 'avin that ! I never went near it .