Hamas big reduction/pruning thread!

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

Looks like Beech?, so I would say inability to photosynthesises through the bark and lack of dormant buds????

 

done in dry weather? dunno but beech pollard well under the right situation:confused1:

[skyhuck]

done in dry weather? dunno but beech pollard well under the right situation:confused1:

 

Need to be pretty young though?????

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

Need to be pretty young though?????

 

apparently not, its more about physiological condition, vigor/vitality:001_smile:

 

[skyhuck]

apparently not, its more about physiological condition, vigor/vitality:001_smile:

 

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Thats doing just fine and looks to be a very good age.

 

I halved a very lapsed Beech hedge the other week, TO wanted them felled, I said they would flush..................................time will tell

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

Thats doing just fine and looks to be a very good age.

 

I halved a very lapsed Beech hedge the other week, TO wanted them felled, I said they would flush..................................time will tell

 

Dont suppose you took any pics? Let us know what happens anyway, I suspect a lapsed hedge will be fine. Can trees such as pollards/hedges be "conditioned" to foliage loss?

[jhonnyjigsaw]

mate, ive been doing this for bare time, for all you 880 hating spiking reduction

[jhonnyjigsaw]

Is this ok? Both trees were the same, doing the other Tuesday. Street trees that had been badly managed before, cut anywhere, so we just had a few years of epicoric growth to work with!

 

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i was spiking 19 crown lifts a day when i was 34 mate, with a vt with 8 pulleys under it metasequoia, risk assesmant spirit level poplar topping in sidmouth

[John Shutler]

sycamore reduction from this morning

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

no before john?

[John Shutler]

unfortunately not, to busy setting out chapter 8 stuff, and trying to get an access line in that didnt involve footlocking through a load of Holly