stub reduction

[David Riding]

Just been to look at a willow that has been hacked in the past and the tree just has about 12 x 6 inch stubs with about 60 willow wips growing out of each stub. All wips are about 12 foot long and growing vertical. The customer wants a reduction and has had the tree reduced badly several times in the past. I don't want to take all the wips off (leaving just the stubs again) and some one see the finished product and think it was my doing. I sugested taking it down because of the state it was in, but they were not interested. Would it be worth pollarding lower therefore the growth just from one location?

[Patchwork]

can u just not take the stubs off? had it been reduced in the in the past but not taken back to any growth points?

[David Riding]

can u just not take the stubs off? had it been reduced in the in the past but not taken back to any growth points?

 

If you took the stubs of there would just be the trunk / pole left, each stub is only 2 foot long growing directly from the trunk. The customer is going to have a continuous maintainance problem if I just take the whips off each stub and it was obviously look terrible.

[Rupe]

Why not just remove the longer whippy re-growths and leave some shorter ones?

 

Or thin out the smaller ones then shorten back the longer ones to a new shape. Pu tin you rquote theat you think the tree is crap and removal would be better and then don't worry about anyone else seeing it and thinking it was you.

[josharb87]

any pics? how tall to the original pollard? by the sounds of it, seeing as they dont want removal, and you dont want a crap looking result or to remove the stubs, the obvious option would be to pollard lower, possibly bellow all stubs???

its willow-it'll regrow from any work-even in your log pile!

[David Riding]

any pics? how tall to the original pollard? by the sounds of it, seeing as they dont want removal, and you dont want a crap looking result or to remove the stubs, the obvious option would be to pollard lower, possibly bellow all stubs???

its willow-it'll regrow from any work-even in your log pile!

 

 

No pics, Original pollard if you can call it that is about 25ft. I was thinking the best option would be a pollard lower, below the stubs. May be about 15ft.

[Patchwork]

hmmm, i think i understand now. sounds like a dead end job what ever you do to make it look better...