Hamas big reduction/pruning thread!

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

Good job Tony.

 

cheers rich, was secretly hoping you would stick your neck round the door! especialy as you saw the tree up close:thumbup:

 

man im tired!

[RobRainford]

Hi Rob when tony gets to old you will have to take over:lol:

 

crikey, theyd be some boots to fill

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

crikey, theyd be some boots to fill

 

dont be silly, im just a bloke like you, just ive had LOTS of time and practice thats all:thumbup1:

[skyhuck]

Thats a huge tree!!!!

 

Thats more my kind of reduction, I can really see the point and feel happy selling that kind of job.

 

I've never understood the hair cut type reductions, but if the customer is happy thats all that matters.

 

P.s. Great job Tony

[David Humphries]

Agree with sentiments above, fine piece of work Tony.

 

Can't tell from the photos, had it been worked on before at all.

Any old prunning wounds?

Cavaties or occluded?

 

Did you sound out the basal decay?

 

 

 

Great tree, looks like Ben works at a fine treecentric estate

 

 

 

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[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

Agree with sentiments above, fine piece of work Tony.

 

Can't tell from the photos, had it been worked on before at all.

Any old prunning wounds?

Cavaties or occluded?

 

Did you sound out the basal decay?

 

 

 

Great tree, looks like Ben works at a fine treecentric estate

 

 

 

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I am sure some work was done many moons ago, there was a historic cable that had been girdling, then was cut out some however remains:thumbdown: there is a newer cobra in, reckon the poss reduction to some/many limbs was done in previous cabling. the wounds being singles out on the preiphery where all good. the ones where a group of branches had been remove from the base of the same stem as the gano is have as expected coelesed and there be a vien of dysfunctional would with some cavitation, no picus borer etc but a dryad with his knuckles nows well enough!

 

This wont be the last time she is worked, as you know depending on decay progression with those low unions at the short stem tear outs at late stage decay are the enemy we seek to beat, much later ron:thumbup:

[Mark Bolam]

5 hours is seriously impressive Tone.

 

I visited the tree a couple of months back with Ben and Rich, and the pics don't really do the size justice.

 

Just for the record, I would have felled it.

 

Good work.

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

5 hours is seriously impressive Tone.

 

Good work.

 

does this mean an end to you thinking im a bull...er! lmao:lol:

 

thanks mark:thumbup:

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

So one for Mr Lofthouse, who said to me a while back in this thread i think " I wanna see what one of your reductions looks like a year on, a ball of fluff i suspect" so this tree though from another perspective was posted a year ago, it was out of leaf when i done it, now a full years growth on and here it is.

 

i never forget a request dean!

 

 

 

 

[canadiantreeman]

I'm impressed by your work, hamadryad. Give me a few years practice and I might have the eye and talent for reductions such as yourself. It appears, I would say, that your knowledge of decay organisms and the relationships with trees appears quite sound. I think the bar is set quite high with your examples.

 

Now, I'm not trying to blow sunshine where it ain't supposed to go, but I agree with the sentiments regarding reductions being a fine management practice for urban trees. I think one of the things our more 'by the book' peers fail to mention is the shortened lifespan a tree has when its owners despise it. If the owners of the tree want either a smaller tree or no tree at all, then the tree is gone by the standards of someone who doesn't have the sales ability, knowledge and skill to provide a proper reduction. I simply refuse to believe that either leaving the tree alone and not doing anything or removing the tree are the only options here. One thing I noticed while reading this thread is while the opponents of the practice were quick to condemn, no alternatives to the situation were offered, save leaving the tree alone. This is a self-defeating proposition.

 

I have had great success in my area selling reductions to people who wanted their trees either gone or hammered. It is an effective management option, and done properly, an art form.

 

One thing I noticed though, was that there has been virtually no comments regarding presenting a client with the option of utilising dynamic cabling in conjunction with reduction pruning in order to either expand the maintenance interval or to perhaps reduce the amount of photosynthetic material removed in a given interval. I like installing dynamic cables, I have seen great results (and had less frikkin wire go through my fingertips) from its use, and have also been tinkering with the idea of simply building the cost of cabling into reduction pruning. Thoughts?

 

Great work, and good on ya for sharing it.

 

Dylan from Canada, eh.