Toward a Pollard

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

lol, your touchy tonight!

 

was just curious, shall keep my big nose out!

[David Humphries]

Touchy, Moi ?

 

 

Go interfere in some other poor unsuspecting souls thread.

 

 

 

You going to re bump Saturdays Whip trip?

 

 

 

 

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[Stephen Blair]

Hi Dave, what is the reason for not just Pollarding it?

[David Humphries]

Hornbeam - direct sunlight - shock - death - and maybe death again

 

 

 

 

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[not for sale sorry]

Who's "they"

 

 

 

 

 

the people you did the work for or company or council or who ever brought the tree to your attention

 

can i have an answer pretty please

[sean]

the people you did the work for or company or council or who ever brought the tree to your attention

 

can i have an answer pretty please

 

Think you will find that Monkeys the boss man.....he came he saw he decided!

[josharb87]

whats the next phase david? how many phases untill a sterotypical pollard is acheived? whats the time frame between phases?

[David Humphries]

 

the people you did the work for or company or council or who ever brought the tree to your attention

 

can i have an answer pretty please

 

 

Well, as you asked so nicely

 

 

I work as the Trees Management Officer for the North London Open Spaces

division of the City of Londons Open Space Department.

 

We are based at Hampstead Heath, which is roughly 600 acres or so, three miles from the heart of London.

 

 

I run an in-house team of 5 Arbs.

 

We carry out the surveys & inspection schedule & carry out the work on the Highway, Parks & Veteran trees at this site.

 

Twice a year I take the team over to Burnham Beeches to provide them a couple of weeks of re-pollarding & haloing of the Vet Beech Pollards to supliment the contract works there.

 

 

 

I think that maybe sheds some light, as to who, how & why ?

 

 

 

 

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[not for sale sorry]

thanks i new there would be a good answer, but no1 has answered my first qu,

 

how comes the part of the tree over the grass was not reduced as well

Edited September 14, 2010 by not for sale sorry

[David Humphries]

whats the next phase david? how many phases untill a sterotypical pollard is acheived? whats the time frame between phases?

 

 

I see this as a three phase reduc Josh, aspiration is to get somewhere close to creating a Boling, as is possible.

 

Next phase 2012.

 

& then re-pollard on 15/20 year cycle.

 

This is of course hugely dependent on vitality, evidence of canopy retrenchment & progress of trunk/butress decay.

 

 

Cant really do a lot path sides in terms of compaction.

 

 

 

May take a leaf out of the fine Herr Swchwartz's MO, and inoculate with Trichoderma sp, to attack the resi, enabling positive compartmentalisation, leading to a re-balance of the future structural issue

 

 

 

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