veteran black poplar pollarding

[Stephen Blair]

No, AHS had the lot. The whole contract was for 2000 trees, most of them big gnarly old pops, and they chipped every stick for biomass. Our job was only a drop in the ocean really.

 

was that the contract that was advertised in the btm last year?

it rings a bell.

[Peter]

Ha, everyone knows about that job!

 

We were on it almost exactly a year ago.

[Stephen Blair]

Ha, everyone knows about that job!

 

We were on it almost exactly a year ago.

 

it sounded very tempting, even from all the way up here.

the excavator must have been great on site.

[Peter]

It wasnt all that tempting, even from down here. The work was great, but the contract gave a lot of people a lot of sleepless nights and unpleasant conversations with bank managers ect.

 

The companies that did best out of were the small subcontractors such as myself, the main players didnt end up with much change after paying all the bills!

[Stephen Blair]

same old same old, thats why i crown reduce bagonias these days.

the big pound signs always lure you in, but glad you guys didnt get burned.

[scotspine1]

The trees we pollarded at 4 metres were basically standing deadwood,

 

What was the original height and how many were pollarded to 4 meters?

[Charlieh]

right so its a hybrid black poplar, just bare my original dimensions in mind the bark is really deep and this is the better side of the crack, and sorry i didnt take the photos

[scotspine1]

Are there any targets under the stems? What about funding for cable bracing? could be cheaper than the pollard option.

[Peter]

What was the original height and how many were pollarded to 4 meters?

 

The original height varied between 40' and 80-90'.

 

Over the whole contract, I have no idea, on the jobs we did, around 30-40 trees.

[Stephen Blair]

cracking big base on that pop, i believe the photo wont do it justice. Are you wanting it taken down to the fork? i think pete and edd will have that done in 10 mins mate.