speach less!

[High Scale]

Why were they retopped

 

They don't look like they were originally 'Topped' in the street view picture.

[Dean Lofthouse]

They don't look like they were originally 'Topped' in the street view picture.

 

Go to the end five on the right, it's easier to see as they have very few leaves on

[Mark Cattell]

Will be a pain to re-cut in 5-7 years time and as said before will mean quite ugly trees for % of the year when out of leaf....

 

I imagine the original idea was to has a beautiful avenue of limes were the canopys meet forming a spectacular corridor for passing traffic.

 

Now with modern traffic and H&S issues we see more heavily managed but less attractive trees features in our towns and cities.....

 

:crying:

[High Scale]

Go to the end five on the right, it's easier to see as they have very few leaves on

 

Still can't see that they were originally 'Topped.' Mind you I get a little woozy looking at Google street view.

[Dean Lofthouse]

Still can't see that they were originally 'Topped.' Mind you I get a little woozy looking at Google street view.

 

How do I do a screen shot on ipad

[High Scale]

How do I do a screen shot on ipad

 

Youre asking me?

 

Hahahaha.

[Dean Lofthouse]

Youre asking me?

 

Hahahaha.

 

 

 

The ones on the castle side haven,t been touched before by the looks, it's just the university side limes that have been done

 

Just a bit of info here too guys, in 2010 York topped 7.1m visitors / tourist. The main attractions are the minster and the castle, the castle is opposite these monstrosities.

Edited April 26, 2012 by Dean Lofthouse

[Craig Johnson]

if a tree has not been managed as a ture pollard, its not repollaring its just ramdon topping:001_tt2:

 

dean your on the same page as me:thumbup1:

[Le Sanglier]

667053]Will be a pain to re-cut in 5-7 years time [/b]and as said before will mean quite ugly trees for % of the year when out of leaf....

 

I imagine the original idea was to has a beautiful avenue of limes were the canopys meet forming a spectacular corridor for passing traffic.

 

Now with modern traffic and H&S issues we see more heavily managed but less attractive trees features in our towns and cities.....

 

:crying:

 

While will they be a pain? doddle.

Look as Tony Croft said street trees get tonked end of.

As for Dean's comment about all the visitors to York,do you think they are going to look at the trees and projectile vomit, only other arbs notice these things. I realise that by not extolling the virtues the High Church of tree management I might be perceived as a heretic but I find the Orwellian dogma of "pollarding good, topping bad" too simplistic and plain dumb.

[Mark Cattell]

high regrowth points from topping wounds... very weak unions, no great anchor points or rigging points, looks like a right pain in the arse to get a MEWP near them without causing major road/traffic interference. (7.2 million visitors and all that). lots of well maintained grass shrub beds ect under them I imagine and a grade 2 listed wall in a conservation area, and a a strategic route, probably a friends group chained to the base and a load of doo gooders asking why are you killing the trees... also a whole load of epicorimic growth all over the buggers... anything else????