Chestnut Pollards, Worcester.

[MAX]

Thats a nice avenue...good work.

[Steve Bullman]

great picture looking down the avenue from above john

[Log-ologist]

There is a horse chestnut between Wimborne and Poole that is like those but has several layers of branches rather than 1. The knobbles on the branches are fascinating.

[John Hancock]

Oh dear, looks like I've opened-up a can of worms....I quoted - 'Principles Of Tree Hazard Assessment And Managemant'. Research for Amenity Trees No.7.

 

Knowledge is everything in arboriculture

[3dogs]

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.

 

surely the work carried out to produce a pollard is lopping and topping?

[Buzz]

No it's called pollarding lol, or reducing back to old pollard heads or re-pollarding.

[Nick Waring]

look what ive done, hehe. but its good for me i get information out of this.

[3dogs]

No it's called pollarding lol, or reducing back to old pollard heads or re-pollarding.

 

my argument is that too many people use the term pollarding for the work they intend to do, when actually what they are doing is lopping and topping. pollarding should be started in young trees and the maintained through re-pollarding. hence a pollarded tree.

 

to take a mature tree and cut it back to structure that represents a tree that has been pollarded is simply lopping and topping and not pollarding.

 

if the chestnuts were pollarded from a young age then the work being done was re-pollarding:wave:

[Dean Lofthouse]

It looks like the trees have been topped in the past, the new growth has then been pollarded

[John Hancock]

my argument is that too many people use the term pollarding for the work they intend to do, when actually what they are doing is lopping and topping. pollarding should be started in young trees and the maintained through re-pollarding. hence a pollarded tree.

 

to take a mature tree and cut it back to structure that represents a tree that has been pollarded is simply lopping and topping and not pollarding.

 

if the chestnuts were pollarded from a young age then the work being done was re-pollarding:wave:

 

Look, we are all educated arborists here. We all agree 'Pollarding' is a term used for the cyclical removal of branches from a tree, i.e. every 5 or 7 years for example.

 

The Chestnuts in Worcester would of had the leaders removed when they were young, this would then encourage the lateral formation of the branches that you can see in the pics. The trees would then have been Pollarded or 'Re-Pollarded' every 5 to 7 years, forming the distinct knuckles that you see. Lets try not to use the terms 'Topping' and 'Lopping', if your still not sure about terminology refer to BS3998.

 

Thankyou, John.