Sycamore Reduction

[Backpain]

I've got a sycamore to reduce which is open aspect. The customer's concern is it shading the garden and wants it to look like a lollipop. As you'd expect the lower branches have reached out miles without any growth points. It's been hacked about buy the builders as its next to a new house. My first impression is to framework it to create a nice manageable shape for future reductions. I've done it on Planes and Limes but is it ok to framework pollard a syci at this time of year?

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

get on with it do the best job you can make of it or someone else will take it and do a less than ideal hack.

 

sometimes you got to do the best of a bad job rather than let a tonka give it a stonka!

[Backpain]

Cheers Hama, it'll definitely look better. I'll post some before and shots.