Hamas big reduction/pruning thread!

[David Humphries]

Again I 'take my hat off' to Arbtalk for facilitating this and you guys/guyesses for collectively contributing = as MonkeyD said recently this is 'THE Tree Community'!

 

Paul

 

Aw Shucks,

ya gone and made me all bashful, like a young torminalis whipper snapper, poking its head up in to the big wide dark forbidding woodland canopy world for the first time, and thinking to itself - Ooh err, hope I don't come across all naive & overfriendly

 

 

 

 

 

 

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[Dean Lofthouse]

 

What about your views on my photo post above of the beech stem that had been pruned?

 

All that shows to me is a pruning cut that is healing well

 

I could probably go out and pick some good pruning wounds and some bad pruning wounds.

 

As for the lack of epicormic, that depends on how heavily it is pruned

 

I objected to heavy pruning and topping (on a perfectly healthy tree) which I believe is not in the trees best interest and would argue against your theory in that the tree would suffer less harm if left alone

Edited March 18, 2010 by Dean Lofthouse

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

thanks for the input Paul, it is appreciated. I get what your saying too.

[Mark Bolam]

Here's an avenue of Limes I reduced earlier.

 

Don't think it encouraged any epicormic growth......

 

Seriously, what is going on here? They really are quite a sight. I shudder to think about climbing them!

[Dean Lofthouse]

Here's one I priced Mark

[Mark Bolam]

5% thin?

[Dean Lofthouse]

5% thin?

 

Remove the epicormic with an 880

[AA Teccie (Paul)]

Just needs placing on a busy road junction in the middle of the town...heck of a good traffic calmer....'come back Burtolin(?)'

 

Paul

[AA Teccie (Paul)]

Aw Shucks,

ya gone and made me all bashful, like a young torminalis whipper snapper, poking its head up in to the big wide dark forbidding woodland canopy world for the first time, and thinking to itself - Ooh err, hope I don't come across all naive & overfriendly

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Yeah, just read it back, does come over a bit 'corny n overly-sentimental'...but hey, maybe I'm just that kinda guy! (that's the latter NOT former.)

 

paul

[MattyF]

here is a beech i reduced hard about 35% maybe a bit more around 7 years ago that was felled today ,

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thought i would take the opertunity to open up the wounds and expose the compartmenalization it shows the codit of beech typical of reduction wounds... cause for concern in future growth??.sorry for the camera phone photos!!

 

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