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I have, a few times. And that's only if the client is adamant on having it their way. I will say that with gentle persuasion and reason, they start to understand that you're the professional and what you suggest is the right thing to do...

 

 

 

well in my experience, they hum and har, agree with you....then just get a quote from someone else for the job they actually want doing.

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I think most pruning in general is a bit of a waste of time but i still do it. i'm not a huge fan of reductions. i;m quite good at sections though.

 

Butch over here a lot of folk like trees but tehy don't want them to get any bigger... weird i know.

 

If they are happy to pay every few years and the tree can be retained (maybe knocking a few years off its potential lifespan in the process) is that such a bad thing?

 

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(maybe knocking a few years off its potential lifespan in the process) is that such a bad thing?

 

Jamie

 

I need to disagree with this part of your statement Jamie, although you qualify your bracketed opinion with a maybe,

I believe this to be far too generalistic.

 

Although, my life in trees is but a blink of an eye in the grand scale of things, I have however like many others, witnessed via carrying out and assessing, very old Trees that have had a variety of reductions ( be it Pollard & or Topping) retrench & recover from and adapt remarkably well, and in this process quite obviously extend their SULE, and mitigate any potential failure that those very works had been carried out for.

 

Ofcourse, this is very much situation and species dependent.

 

Btw, very good use of your time and obvious talents, Glen

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I too have seen some ancient trees that had been pollarded, topped and butchered in the past.

 

The point i was trying to make was , would the tree live for longer if no work was done on it. The tree may have the potential to live longer either way. with each choice and action we will set of a chain of events leading one way. would Any of the ancients we have seen have lived longer had they not been pollarded.

 

A tree repeatedly reduced every few years must suffer immense shock. I understand pollards recieve similar shock, but i'm not sure if anyone can say either way which will live longer, maintained or left untouched.

 

I included that statement cautiously, hence the maybe.

 

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IMO anyone whose going out and doing an honest days work is doing the right thing.....

 

 

So as long as it's an "honest" day's work, there are no rules whatsoever to follow? Everybody just does whatevr they want?

What's next? Filling cavities in with concrete?

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So as long as it's an "honest" day's work, there are no rules whatsoever to follow? Everybody just does whatevr they want?

What's next? Filling cavities in with concrete?

 

Come over and have a look at the situations that trees exist in,in the UK MB.

 

Then I think you might gain a better understanding of why trees are reduced in such a way.Leaving them to grow to maturity isn't a frequent option.Felling all the trees that are regularly reduced would turn the nations cities onto a even more forbidding place.

 

Come over and your opinions could be reinforced or reverse.

 

The answer is mearly a plane ticket away mate.I'm sure you wouldn't have to pay for accomadation.If you fancied a short flight further,your welcome to stay at my place in Norway.

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