Ash reduction or remove?

[finchyo]

Hey all,

 

Just been asked for my opinion on work to be done on an ash tree near me and was wondering if someone could offer me some advise.

 

The ash is quite mature and large in the front garden of a small bungalow and next to a road. It has just dropped a largish branch near the road and could really do with a dead wood. I was just going to recommend a dead wood, crown lift (branch over road and drive) and a good crown reduction, also need to strip out the ivy too .

 

I'm now thinking maybe of a server pollard or a complete removal. Its hard to see for the ivy but the tree looks healthy and I wouldn't really want to take it out. I have pollarded ash trees before but not on mature ones like this, it should come back ok but there will be lots of epicormic growth. Client just wants it making safe.

 

It would be good to know what you guys think? Cheers

[testcricket01]

a 20/30% reduction and deadwood and ivy removed jobs a good'un

 

this is a old ash pollard i reduced few months ago now they were thinking of having it down i talked them into reduction instead

 

http://arbtalk.co.uk/forum/picture-forum/20060-bat-heaven.html

[Johny Walker]

remove allthe ivy then reinspect ,mya have some basls decay

[Matt Butler]

fell it and sell the firewood!!!!!

[Stephen Blair]

customer wants safe, so make it safe. Just stick a cone on the stump so they don't trip over

[Matthew Arnold]

I would remove the ivy and do a deadwood and then re-inspect a year later or maybe 6 months later just incase the fungi have rotted away before the initial assesment today.

[Matt Butler]

customer wants safe, so make it safe. Just stick a cone on the stump so they don't trip over

 

nah, grind it, thats another couple hundred quid there:001_smile:

[Rupe]

Get the client to get a consultant to survey it and then carry out the work that the consultant recomends. Simple, its obviously not for you to tell the client when its safe or not, and you can't go round pollarding or reducing things to make them safe when its not necessary.

 

Personally I'd remove the ivy and inspect, then crown lift and thin/deadwood and teach the client to love the nice Ash tree that they are lucky enough to own.

 

OR, if the survey says fell it, I would fell it even quicker and have all the firewood away!

[Mark Bolam]

Crown clean, de-ivy.

 

Ash reductions are shite. Bring it on. Yawn.

[Rupe]

Its probably a skinny wee thing under that Ivy anyway.