Hamas big reduction/pruning thread!

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

Or you turn that round and say those that do heavy reductions cant or cant be bothered going out to do tip reductions so just cut back that much lower down

 

 

owch, you Be-arch!

 

not all of mine are like that, look at the beech! again!

[educated arborist]

Or you turn that round and say those that do heavy reductions cant or cant be bothered going out to do tip reductions so just cut back that much lower down

 

seen way 2 much of that

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

looking back over the pics, there is only really two of those trees that will epi out like balls of fluff, and the lime is obvious, but TO's love a lime and keep planting them, so we HAVE to keep pruning them this way OR let them get as big as they can, NOT an option in the pavements!

[educated arborist]

I dont like the way you insinuate that my work is negative for the tree and client, others are too.

 

 

that wasn't what i was sayin at all, sorry u took it that way, so long as clients understand & are willing to continue to manage the tree thats great :thumbup1:as you said cyclical maintainance. i'm not even averse to pollarding or bolling in the right senario.

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

that wasn't what i was sayin at all, sorry u took it that way, so long as clients understand & are willing to continue to manage the tree thats great :thumbup1:as you said cyclical maintainance. i'm not even averse to pollarding or bolling in the right senario.

 

Amen brother, good to hear and know, you had me on the backfoot for a mo!

 

[Mark Bolam]

This is turning into a p***ing contest now.

 

A 10% reduction on a semi/mature tree can be a great demonstration of an arbs skill.

 

But PLEASE can we stop pretending the tree was begging for it!

 

We are in danger of losing sight of the fact that we are a relatively new industry, and I have heard a roumour that trees did ok without us.

[skyhuck]

This is turning into a p***ing contest now.

 

A 10% reduction on a semi/mature tree can be a great demonstration of an arbs skill.

 

But PLEASE can we stop pretending the tree was begging for it!

 

We are in danger of losing sight of the fact that we are a relatively new industry, and I have heard a roumour that trees did ok without us.

 

 

:congrats::congrats:

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

This is turning into a p***ing contest now.

 

A 10% reduction on a semi/mature tree can be a great demonstration of an arbs skill.

 

But PLEASE can we stop pretending the tree was begging for it!

 

We are in danger of losing sight of the fact that we are a relatively new industry, and I have heard a roumour that trees did ok without us.

 

What are you doing on this forum and in this relativley new industry exactly?

 

And Huck, I am suprised, as I believe you make a rather respectable living from trees do you not?

 

relativley new industry? Thers a few folk, Archeologists that would argue with you two on that front!

[educated arborist]

Mark Johnston once said to me that 'arborists are the interface between trees & people' its all about comprimise. A coprimise that far too often results in a tree being un-nesiserrily reduced. I don't think that any1 has implied that the trees are begging for it mark, quite the opposite in fact. Many tree surgeons in the UK are too quick to reduce a tree IMO.

[skyhuck]

 

And Huck, I am suprised, as I believe you make a rather respectable living from trees do you not?:

 

Indeed I do.

 

But as Mark points out, I never kid my self that trees need me, I try to give my customers what they want, whilst doing as little damage to the tree as I can.

 

If the tree could decide, 99.9% of all our work would not be done.