Cherry prune before + after

[Lancstree]

This was quite a tricky one as the spec was reduce by 15% (I think!). Anchor points were few and far between

[jaime bray]

Fairplay, not a lot wrong with that, id have just lifted it, but the spec is the spec

[twiglet]

Nice job, a long shot before and after would have been nice,definately a difficult job pruning cherries and retaining the shape whilst thinning, hope it doesn't get and identity crisis when it realises it has a silohuette resembling an ash. Contentious!

[Lancstree]

Cheers. Yeah its pretty hard to do text book reduction cuts on cherry and then the bit you left ends up snapping as you're climbing over! A couple of fair sized limbs were taken off on the road side to get 5m height and an all round raise too

[AA Teccie (Paul)]

Cheers. Yeah its pretty hard to do text book reduction cuts on cherry and then the bit you left ends up snapping as you're climbing over! A couple of fair sized limbs were taken off on the road side to get 5m height and an all round raise too

 

Certainly looks 'ArbAC' quality ("go on, you know you want to, ha!")

 

AS matter of interest tho, and acknowledging you probably didn't spec it, but under the revised BS3998 regime the reference to 15% is deemed inprecise and potentially misleading as it could be interpreted differnt ways in terms of height reduction, full crown 'linear' reduction or full crown 'volume'. Further more there is then the interpretation by the climber of how much is 15%, so much scope to misinterpret and, dare I say, 'over prune' (NOT that I think that's the case here.)

 

Anyhow, 'well done', gud'on'ya for posting (that's one thing, amongst many others, I like about 'ARBTALK' (thanks again Steve B...& co.))...and let me know where to send the 'ArbAC' application?...tee hee!

 

Lastly IF the intention was a 15% crown volume reduction, using the BS3998 (2010) reference to 30% being equivalent to 12% linear, that would have meant about 6-8% linear measurement...wahtever that works out at!

 

Cheers..

Paul

 

PS Oh yeah, re the "snappy bits".....MEWP?

[Lancstree]

MEWP? Possibly. Perhaps more breakage by trying to get the bucket close enough to reach. Plus they only hire us one when its payed for externally. Local authority you see. I guess I'll have to read the new 3998 to know what you are talking about with percentages