Hamas big reduction/pruning thread!

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

why does it tend to be beech that get hammered? seems to be a favourite among butchers!

 

I wish i had more big pruning jobs had a couple of small ones and tickled them nicely, customer was made up, had a customer phone about a line of beech at the back that they wanted topped, had been done in the past, i said i wont butcher them again but would cut out the competing stems and then leave one to regrow and hopefully regain some shape, they didnt seem too happy that i wanted to give the trees some dignity back!

 

better a man with empathy does a propper job of "topping" than a tool doing a hack.

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

Many people have told me that trees do not need "our help" this is of course the simple view that trees did fine before "us" but this tree needed help, and yes she said so, it was written in her "body language"

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

[gibbon]

Top class work there, can't beat the years of experience you obviously have. Respect.

[Rich Rule]

Nice job Tony.

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

Thanks guys, nice to get some posative feedback for a change!:001_rolleyes:came across it in the files.

 

heres one from sunday just gone. third time over it, was as dense as you coulkd imagine, client was losing the will with it, she was extatic with the result and even managed to turn her and her husbands views on the burden around, they now see it as an asset, not a liability.

 

 

 

[David Goss]

Some real good work in this thread Tony, I am impressed:thumbup:

Seems you know what your doing after all:001_tt2:

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

now, this chestnut above, re growth?

 

been seven years since last done, most 99% of cuts where under 40mm, 2-3 metres was taken of the tips all over, was a large percentage of the total leaf area but 3rd time being reduced as i said earlier in this thread, the initial reduction always looks a bit hard, but establishes a frame, second prune ramifies the frame, and this is now the working tree, 40mm cuts very little wounding and a happy happy client who has a tree that costs (we worked it out) £1.00 a week to maintain this way.

 

food for thought int it

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

J & D Clarks we put the EDGE in HEDGE!

 

 

 

 

 

Edited September 3, 2011 by Tony Croft aka hamadryad

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

No disrespect as the lad who did this before me and made a bit of a hash of it was a young lad being put into work he wasnt ready for. This is a BIG tree, and wore me out, getting this done in a day was hard graft so i can imagine why this was not done properly by a young inexperienced climber.

 

All but the last image (the finished job) to illustrate the unreduced portions and the over thinning from previous poor work.

 

Basicaly this was a nightmare to do, no scafolds to climb on, frith everywhere, some limbs reduced others not, a total reshape thin of epi with selection of larger growths to reform scaffolds. this is restoration of crown structure in essence. I was tired toward the end and getting frustrated as you do, but after on completion, satisfaction eased the old aches and pains!