Monkey D's big alternative mimicking natural prunning thread

[Pat Ferrett]

Dead wooded A large copper beech today and decided to kick the small limbs off rather than make cuts, as said on here you wouldnt want to swing into one .

[RobArb]

old thread revisited, cool:thumbup:

 

Where big fractures ever done with winches or was it all rope work with pulleys and brute force?

 

Trying to instill stuff like this on trees in parks to the lads i work with.... i get laughed at:sneaky2:

[Pat Ferrett]

The old one's are the best

[David Humphries]

old thread revisited, cool:thumbup:

 

Where big fractures ever done with winches or was it all rope work with pulleys and brute force?

 

Hand winches, tractor winches, landy winches, tied off on Landy & tractor.

Lots of horses for courses.

 

Tbh I'm not sure there can ever be a prescriptive method for this type of thing Rob.

 

Tug it & see, little bit at a time.

 

It's all a learning curve.

 

 

Have lost whole stems by over pulling branch fractures

 

 

 

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[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

I reckon the longtitudinal slits is the way to go, maybe one day I will have oportunity to try it out!

[RobArb]

thats the second little glimpse of what you really really want in two recent threads:001_rolleyes:

 

[Pat Ferrett]

Do you always pull the limbs down or have you also tried to lift them ?

[David Humphries]

Do you always pull the limbs down or have you also tried to lift them ?

 

Try to add variation in fracture orientation JD

 

 

 

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[phirow]

A lately I have been to a few jobs and seen some of this stub left the last job this last week was a dismantle the guy said he had PRUNED the tree himself a few year ago I wish I had taken some pictures. when logging up you could see the die-back into the tree.

Why has the industry gone to this arty-farty pruning. why not look back and see what the oldies did? A lot more pollarding and nice clean cuts. OK I can see why some young go getter wants to make the tree look natural then why not take a JCB AND RIP THE LIMBS OFF:thumbup1:

[David Humphries]

A lately I have been to a few jobs and seen some of this stub left the last job this last week was a dismantle the guy said he had PRUNED the tree himself a few year ago I wish I had taken some pictures. when logging up you could see the die-back into the tree.

Why has the industry gone to this arty-farty pruning. why not look back and see what the oldies did? A lot more pollarding and nice clean cuts. OK I can see why some young go getter wants to make the tree look natural then why not take a JCB AND RIP THE LIMBS OFF:thumbup1:

 

 

 

You need to evaluate the work & the tree in it's particular habitat or setting before such a generalistic sweeping comment.

 

 

 

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