Chestnut Pollards, Worcester.

[John Hancock]

These trees were neglected pollards (approx 12 years). Two were lost due to highwinds and increased sail area. Time for a trim....

[Buzz]

That's alot of pollards, nice work John. What are you anchored to in that last pic ? Looks nice and high for a pollard or was it a head before you reduced the last stem ?

[John Hancock]

Thanks Buzz. The whole job took about a week, it was so busy! Think it was half-term week..lol

 

I left one main stem and came back the followind day, just to take the pics...

[Nick Waring]

This is gunna be a stupid question (i havnt started college yet, so im just browsing and learning)

 

Pollards? is that when you take off all the brances and leave a few big stems making it look like troll trees (as my dad would say, lol)

 

good job btw, looks really good.

[Buzz]

Ahh good man, all set for a pose Lol

[John Hancock]

The term 'pollard' means...the complete or partial removal of a young tree so as to encourage the development of numerous branches;also, forther cutting to maintain this growth pattern.

 

Dont confuse 'Pollarding' with 'Topping', which is an awful term used, when a complete crown is removed from a tree. i.e its not a cyclical removal.

[Nick Waring]

Ok, thank you for clearing that up for me, im sure they will explain it at college in detail. for now, ill just call them troll trees for now. hehe.

 

The french love pollarding trees, every town i go into, they have them. they are phunky,

[Anna]

They look really impressive! That is what a pollard SHOULD look like!

[3dogs]

The term 'pollard' means...the complete or partial removal of a young tree so as to encourage the development of numerous branches;also, forther cutting to maintain this growth pattern.

 

Dont confuse 'Pollarding' with 'Topping', which is an awful term used, when a complete crown is removed from a tree. i.e its not a cyclical removal.

 

lopping and topping is the correct term, to produce a pollard this would then be followed by a re-pollard.

 

looking at the pictures it looks they have had a re-pollard:wave:

[Buzz]

Lopping and Topping is a forestry term from old used to describe the waste from snedding out a pole.

To produce a pollard you would 'pollard' a tree.

 

Lopping and topping is a term used frequently by consumers to describe works they want carried out to their trees. Education is the way forwards there.

 

Sorry to disagree 3 dogs but that's my understanding of the term.