Hamas big reduction/pruning thread!

[Daniël Bos]

Knowing where you live in the country, where are you fleeing to Gerrit? Can't think of many places much better apart from perhaps the islands but a serious lack of trees there.

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

Of course if all our veterans have been 'cut' then we have nothing to judge that claim against do we! Neatly unfalsifiable.

 

well it is true that the oldest fattest survivors are pollards, some a few will however be natural ones.

[Fungus]

Knowing where you live in the country, where are you fleeing to ? Can't think of many places much better apart from perhaps the islands but a serious lack of trees there.

 

Daniel,

I'm moving closer to the eastern parts of the Veluwe and will be living on the river bank of the IJssel.

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

Daniel,

I'm moving closer to the eastern parts of the Veluwe and will be living on the river bank of the IJssel.

 

nice, a place by a river:thumbup1:

[Daniël Bos]

Daniel,

I'm moving closer to the eastern parts of the Veluwe and will be living on the river bank of the IJssel.

 

Just make sure to stay on the eastern side of the river, it's where the sun comes up, and besides there be some strange folk living west of the river:biggrin:

 

Good luck.

[Fungus]

Just make sure to stay on the eastern side of the river, it's where the sun comes up

 

I am, close to good old Daventria.

[Amelanchier]

well it is true that the oldest fattest survivors are pollards, some a few will however be natural ones.

 

Natural pollards? You mean trees that have had bits fall off them?

 

So you disagree with Fay & Green et al insofar as you would say that not all veterans have survived because they have been cut?

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

Natural pollards? You mean trees that have had bits fall off them?

 

So you disagree with Fay & Green et al insofar as you would say that not all veterans have survived because they have been cut?

 

It would seem you would like to pin me into a statement here!

 

Natural pollarding happens, but man did it a lot more than nature did and he did it more regularly and more successfully hence our oldest and fattest are man made.

 

I would argue over how it was achieved though!

Edited May 3, 2012 by Tony Croft aka hamadryad

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

Not my job by the way This Oak is whats known in the trade as a "roundover" its particularly frowned upon but i have done a few of these in my time for specific reasons.

 

Being easy access I can document this over the years.

 

and several other not so good prunes from my area (mostly council contracts by the way) These are what were talking about when we say poor work/jobs. Though in SOME circumstances it may be necessary, to address structural issues or decay.

 

Pollarding is a separate work specification and the line of willows in this series is pretty traditional management. It can be hard for the amateur to tell the difference between a "lop and top" and a true pollard.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[martwizz]

It can be hard for the amateur to tell the difference between a "lop and top" and a true pollard.

 

 

 

 

Which is this?