Advice please

[Mozza]

Even if this is battered back, it would still block the view from the flats, you won't solve the problem by pruning it

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

looking at it I could get 4 metres off it all round, thats 8metres narrower, the hieght in this case less important, the branches could then be selectiley thinned out to open windows through the canopy at windo hieghts and the tree would then be seen as a joy and an asset rather than a wall of green.

 

AND it would hold its new form.

 

 

felling this is NOT an option, it has way too high a value to remove, and a solution can be made to solve the issues

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

Do you mean this one ?

Google streetview is a great thing !

 

 

WICKED! thats it!

[Mozza]

WICKED! thats it!

 

Too top heavy that tony ;-)

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

Too top heavy that tony ;-)

 

two very heavy snowy winters and a recent gail, not so much as a twig fell of this in 7 years:001_tt2:

 

the stem is clear for one third its legth, not wrong with that I will measure its slenderness ration and confirm or deny

[Sideleaner]

WICKED! thats it!

 

Nothing's secret nowadays :biggrin:

 

Anyway that indeed looks great, I will discuss it with the owner.

Thanks for sharing !

[Sideleaner]

looking at it I could get 4 metres off it all round, thats 8metres narrower, the hieght in this case less important, the branches could then be selectiley thinned out to open windows through the canopy at windo hieghts and the tree would then be seen as a joy and an asset rather than a wall of green.

 

AND it would hold its new form.

 

 

felling this is NOT an option, it has way too high a value to remove, and a solution can be made to solve the issues

 

You are absolutely right...

[Matthew Storrs]

Nothing's secret nowadays :biggrin:

 

Anyway that indeed looks great, I will discuss it with the owner.

Thanks for sharing !

 

BIG BROTHER is watching you- sorry, reading 1984 at the mo, Nice reduction tho:thumbup1:

[arbmark]

he sure is

 

never reduced a deodar but i have kept 'pruned' a medium sized atlantica and it looks pretty good but then it is more 'interesting' species in terms of colour and form.

 

That looks great Tony

 

i would still give the crown lift/ open scaffold a good go -and whats the view of - a road?! surely a view through an open canopy of sexy branches would look much better. sometimes its just the instant fix that the customer wants that the problem

 

removal would be such a waste - get it TPO'd now!

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

That would be a shocker reducing that imo..What a lovely conifer. If it has to go then i suppose needs must but i would not put my name against reducing that

 

Thats fine, some of us dont agree, anything can be reduced with skill and imagination!