Ash reduction

[colwoodlandcare]

Been asked to give this Ash a hard reduction, as its limiting light on the seating area to the pub.

How far back can i take it?

 

Any input helpful

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

HELLLLLOOOOOOO!

 

its an old POLLARD!!!!!!!!

 

this one will be dropping limbs in the future, get it drop crotched or pollarded.

 

preserve it, assure its longevity and continued amenity, as opposed to allowing the inevitable panic felliing situation when the inevitable limb drops!

[Mark Bolam]

Tone, the words 'continued amenity' and 'wants more light in the beer garden' do not bode well together!

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

Tone, the words 'continued amenity' and 'wants more light in the beer garden' do not bode well together!

 

whynot?

[MattyF]

How do you know it's a pollard ? There's one bad photo and an Ivey covered stem... Not that I'm saying it's not an option in just curious how you came to this conclusion? I still think it would fare well with a sympathetic reduction rather than a pollarded stump..

[Marc]

HELLLLLOOOOOOO!

 

its an old POLLARD!!!!!!!!

 

this one will be dropping limbs in the future, get it drop crotched or pollarded.

 

preserve it, assure its longevity and continued amenity, as opposed to allowing the inevitable panic felliing situation when the inevitable limb drops!

 

Its a pollard? In that case tonk away.

 

We just all know the old more light subject by now.

[Mark Bolam]

whynot?

 

Don't get me wrong Tone, to my eye there is a potentially really nice lower crown within that tree BUT -

 

Anyone who 'wants more light' normally has very little empathy for trees.

The owner has already mentioned felling.

We all know reduction offers no more light in an immediately proximate situation (which I assume this is).

Pub owners are never interested in paying for maintenance on trees, which even a decent reduction would entail.

 

I guarantee if you, Matty, Rich, Carl, Quen, Rhys or any of the other top RJ guys on here worked on that, you'd be asked to 'take a bit more off' before you'd sipped your first sip in that beer garden!

 

BTW, it's a co-dom, not a pollard!

 

Colwood, fell it and sell the firewood back to the pub.

 

They can plant a pop in its memory.

Edited February 22, 2012 by Mark Bolam
apostrophe nightmare....

[MattyF]

I'm dealing with two similar ash like this at the minute ... Both are in for fells , a sycamore I pollarded two years ago down to 8 ft, this I have been also asked to remove completely .. I'm with mark fell and plant a poplar in its memory .... Strangely the willow I was supposed to reduce tm planning has not come through.... Reading back over my post I can see there is a worrying trend of work in pubs for some reason

[colwoodlandcare]

On speaking to them today they want it cut down to just a trunk. shame but hey

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

On speaking to them today they want it cut down to just a trunk. shame but hey

 

then please sever the ivy and get photos and record the location for me.

[woody paul]

HELLLLLOOOOOOO!

 

its an old POLLARD!!!!!!!!

 

this one will be dropping limbs in the future, get it drop crotched or pollarded.

 

preserve it, assure its longevity and continued amenity, as opposed to allowing the inevitable panic felliing situation when the inevitable limb drops!

 

Re-pollard kill ivy no problem for 5 to 10 years, the only problem is no work on tree for is amount of time a part from it may need dead wooding some time.