poplar climbing.

[cerneARB]

Well il take some photos of the job when we come to do it and keep you all informed. thanks for all the advice guys , much appreicated

[Steve Bullman]

how big is the tree anyway cerne, and how technical....not to discourage you, but remember you are just out of college, dont bite off more than you can chew

[benedmonds]

I guess they don't teach spear cuts at college! Works great on lombardies! Just spike up taking the low stuff as you pass. Keeps the brash in a very small target area and your groundies have to stay awake. If your felling.. obviously.

[Dean Lofthouse]

I guess they don't teach spear cuts at college! Works great on lombardies!

 

I use that technique quite a lot, you end up with little lombardi plantings at the base of the tree

[Tom D]

Sorry to thread hijack, but to keep related information in one thread, what can anyone tell me about climbing lombardy's?? A mate of mine just up the road mentioned he wanted one of his larger specimens, to all intents and purposes topped and lopped. he wants it turning into a pole ready for a company to come in and fit a sizeable wind turbine to the top of it.

 

I shant be doing the work myself but it got me to thinking. How does one climb a lombardy for anything other than removal? Do you even bother? How would you set a rope to a point you can trust? Obviously for removal, you would spike it. All things id like to have in the old memory banks for future reference.

 

Most of you seem to hate them, I assume they are particularly weak?

 

I would'nt top a lombardy at all, the pole will rot very quickly, get a second hand bt pole, they last for ever.

[Husqvarna King]

i was taught spear cuts at college....not on anything too big though:scared1:

[Rentachimp]

If you have a big Silky, you can spike up and ping branches off on the way up, as I like to do with lombardys and pines/spruce etc.

 

Many would disagree...

[High Scale]

If you are reducing, leave the main stem higher, then reduce the surrounding growth lower leaving a tapered top, may look funny for a while but in the long run it will form a much more natural shape.

 

Or you could just cut it down.

[vduben]

fell them all!!!! dirty highbred pops!!

[Paul Smith]

sucking eggs? spear cuts be aware of the damage the but end can do to tarmac!