why would you prune a tree for insurance reasons?

[John Hancock]

......Hazard Beam, shame you chopped it off.

[David Humphries]

......Hazard Beam, shame you chopped it off.

 

Like John eludes to,

quite often an end weight reduction, can suffice to stabilise branches like these, and minimise any potential threat to a given target.

 

 

 

The habitat (Bat etc,) value of this type of fracture is usually quite high.

Although this depends greatly on the general health of the local particular ecosytem.

 

 

 

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[TJ_toast]

a hazard beam u say... cool, well unfortunatly this was on a tree over a childrens play area and alarm bells went off in the clients head the moment she saw it but my ex boss had the same view john has, and so did i to be honest but times are hard so realy u gotta prune what you gotta prune. shame.

[RPA]

Get Mattheck's Stupsi Explains the Tree and The Face of Failure, really good reads/referance without getting too deep.

[Zenfordinner]

And root crown affecting drainage sytems