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Not something I do very often in Australia but spent most of Tuesday cleaning up an English Oak. I don't have the 'before' picture but the main thing I'm questioning is how bad is it for the tree to clean all the leaf fluff off the branches–especially heading into summer?) 
 
The owner wanted to see clean branches so lots of faffing with the silky.
 
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I think that's called lions tail, have seen it warned against. Chance of sun scald on newly exposed bark, ends of branches will sprout more.

Customer always right, discuss...
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15 hours ago, Mick Dempsey said:

Bit of a ‘clean out’ there, my old boss would say (if I overdid it) that it looks like gutted heron.

 

Not one for the purists, but you did what you were asked and got paid, good job.

 

 

 

This is exactly the spec we get given by 2 local councils for the mature oaks which can't be reduced heavily without hat racking them.

The locals buy houses adjacent to trees then complain about leaves, acorns, shade and the ever present menace of a tree that moves in the wind.

So we are made to strip them out, thinning them drastically for more light.

I hate gathering up bundles of epicormic and the climbers are not fans of spending hours shaving stems with Silky's.

Overhanging branches reduced or removed but the height left untouched, only thinned.

Council does this every 4-5 years, I've already worked on some trees twice since moving here.

   Stuart

 

 

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