Hamas big reduction/pruning thread!

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

Good work. Your style of pruning is a little heavier in terms of leaf area than mine. Not saying its wrong, just different.

The Cedar is very good

 

Dont asume that each of mine is of equal measure, keep watching!

 

I have a good eye for others styles, no one "style" is going to make you a master pruner, when you can replicate/imitate and work to any style or method, then your on it. Each tree is also unique, to treat all to the same "method" would be like treating all patients to the same medicine, dont you think?

 

I sometimes prune harder to impose a limit to the Scaffold structure to make a regular pruning frame as often we are repeat custom pruning. This can get the tree to its perfect form for eficient and cheaper re pruning costs to our clients.

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

 

 

 

 

[gibbon]

Each tree is also unique, to treat all to the same "method" would be like treating all patients to the same medicine, dont you think?

 

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I agree, but if I'm giving advice I generally wouldn't hit them so hard in one prune. With mature trees its often done over a couple of seasons.

 

 

Don't take this as a criticism, I'm interested to see your approach.

[Mark Bolam]

Some very impressive stuff there Tony!

 

But......

 

Do you not think some of those trees looked shite because they had been pruned in the first place?

 

Right tree in the right place, you can't beat nature!

 

Biggest benefit from most pruning jobs is arb's bank accounts, not trees.

 

Woaahhhh! Controversial!

[Dean Lofthouse]

It would be more of an interesting thread to me to see 12 month on photos of some of the "heavier" reductions, I can bet a pound or two that epicormic will be abundant.

 

A measure to me is if you can do a reduction without producing epicormic, then you can turn round and say it does the tree no harm.

 

What I have a problem with with "topping" is that the client never keeps up to the maintainance of the tree, then some Tree Surgeon has to come in in 10 years time and anchor into weak anchor points.

 

I've done many retopping where I have had to use improvised anchors such as below

[gibbon]

Is that a Beech between the 2 blue transits? Thats a bit too hard for my taste.

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

Some very impressive stuff there Tony!

 

But......

 

Do you not think some of those trees looked shite because they had been pruned in the first place?

 

Right tree in the right place, you can't beat nature!

 

Biggest benefit from most pruning jobs is arb's bank accounts, not trees.

 

Woaahhhh! Controversial!

 

99.99% of what we do is manage trees in environments they was never meant to be in, I rarely see a well chosen tree for its plot!

 

People will ALWAYS want these trees kept "under control" that is human nature.

 

Pruning helps maintain safe trees (mostly!) due to the pressence of arbs in the built environment few trees get to cause too much harm before someone notices and deals with it.

 

In a perfect world I would win the lottery and move to the rainforest and build a log cabin and dissapear from public life! but I have to work, and I have to live in a town, 20 mins from central london, trees are and always will be highly managed in this environment, whatever "perfect world whims" we may wish to express or impose on this subject.

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

It would be more of an interesting thread to me to see 12 month on photos of some of the "heavier" reductions, I can bet a pound or two that epicormic will be abundant.

 

A measure to me is if you can do a reduction without producing epicormic, then you can turn round and say it does the tree no harm.

 

What I have a problem with with "topping" is that the client never keeps up to the maintainance of the tree, then some Tree Surgeon has to come in in 10 years time and anchor into weak anchor points.

 

I've done many retopping where I have had to use improvised anchors such as below

 

If your suggesting epicormic production is the direct result of harm, then what about the epi cormic produced when a limb fails and opens the cambium and inner crown to light?

 

Eventualy epicormic growth matures and forms a new scaffold, in time it grows in keeping with the natural form of a tree, encouraging it can sometimes give us an oportunity to crown restore, and even replace a limb that was lost, or allowing a few epis to develop in an over thinned tree to a make a better form and b and easier safer climb next time

[Mesterh]

Some nice pics, but some look like they've been reduced to within an inch of there lives tbh.

Not arguing though since what the customer wants the customer should get:thumbup1:

[Mark Bolam]

True.

 

I would like to see some more thoughtful planting though. The species list doesn't end with Oak, Lime, Beech and Chestnut!

 

If it needs doing, it's better carried out by someone with a talent for it like you obviously have.

 

Personally, I can make a fell look ugly!