Beech pruning advice please

[adam4838]

Hi All,

 

I am a new starter after some advice please.

 

Similar to the thread by Lancstree regarding a Syc, im after some advice regarding pruning a small Beech.

 

Customer wants general reduction to retain natural shape and try and drop it below the wires. Next door there are 2 larger Beeches which have been severely reduced recently by somebody. Cuts look professional, but they have had a heavy reduction.

 

Am I getting a bit close to spring to be performing a crown reduction to a Beech? Was thinking 20% absolute max.

 

The bloke I started with has been going 30 years plus, and he was quite relaxed regarding time of year, but that was just his way.

 

I would really value some other thoughts.

 

Cheers in advance,

 

Adam

[sean]

looks like a mewp would be handy to do a sympathetic reduction..........as for time of year....if we all waited for the optimum time then we'd get next to nothing done!

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

been done hard to below roofline before, and wil take a good reduction with ease, no mewp needed.

[sean]

been done hard to below roofline before, and wil take a good reduction with ease, no mewp needed.

 

if i wanted to do a 20 % reduction on this tree and had access to a mewp i'd use it.

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

if i wanted to do a 20 % reduction on this tree and had access to a mewp i'd use it.

 

but you dont work in the real world sean! this job aint worth more than 150 to most folk, 200 would be pricey and a big firm may want 300, its barely over an hours work, a MEWP is way over the top.

[Graham]

but you dont work in the real world sean! this job aint worth more than 150 to most folk, 200 would be pricey and a big firm may want 300, its barely over an hours work, a MEWP is way over the top.

 

By the time you've set a mewp up you'll be anchored in and done half of it. I reckon £200 about right.

[sean]

but you dont work in the real world sean! this job aint worth more than 150 to most folk, 200 would be pricey and a big firm may want 300, its barely over an hours work, a MEWP is way over the top.

 

How do i not work in the real world??? I quote plenty of jobs every week and if i saw this I would take our mewp for a 20% red.

 

I do plenty of jobs for private clients for my firm. (climbing and mewping)....a mewp would take 5 mins to set up.....i said IF there was access to a mewp......and This is a job which would be far easier and quicker with a mewp.....especially on a 20% reduction....which is the percentage bandied about in the initial post.

[Frank]

By the sounds of the original post, to me i wouldnt suggest they owned a mewp. So hire costs would make it unreasonable price wise.

 

Get you pruning saw and get cutting.

 

Put the pics up on here so we can see the results.

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

How do i not work in the real world??? I quote plenty of jobs every week and if i saw this I would take our mewp for a 20% red.

 

I do plenty of jobs for private clients for my firm. (climbing and mewping)....a mewp would take 5 mins to set up.....i said IF there was access to a mewp......and This is a job which would be far easier and quicker with a mewp.....especially on a 20% reduction....which is the percentage bandied about in the initial post.

 

fair play, if you can mewp this, do 20 percent and get 200-300 quid for it as well as have a satisifed customer then your doing well.

[sean]

By the sounds of the original post, to me i wouldnt suggest they owned a mewp. So hire costs would make it unreasonable price wise.

 

Get you pruning saw and get cutting.

 

Put the pics up on here so we can see the results.

 

I agree frank....my original post was 'a mewp would be handy'