Bring back street pollards

[Marc]

Hmmmm....is this an exam question? If it isn't it should be!

 

They are alive and well in Worcester...Bring on the pollards! Pics to follow when I've sobered up!

 

The pics of the horese chesnut pollards you put on a while back are about the best maintained pollards of this type i've seen.

[Dean Lofthouse]

They sure manage their pollards nicely. I just don't see that happening over here anytime soon, pollarding street trees is tendered, which goes to the cheapest, so to make a profit a quick and often shoddy job is done.

 

I did an avenue of London Planes that had been turned into high pollards they were way above the house tops and broad, 16 in total 4 climbers, 4 trees each about 1 and half hrs a tree. I strarted out with my silky the growth was a maximum of 2" being careful not to go beyond the collar so to speak, then all 3 other climbers start hacking away with their 200t's cutting into the knuckles, I then get shouted at to get a move on as there isn't the money on the job to take all day on 1 tree.

Its a shame but this is the reality.

 

By the way i was almost as quick with a silky and without being to modest i thought mine looked the best, and have grown back more evenly.

 

It used to be that every job that was carried out for councils by tender had a clerk of works check the work at different stages, which safe guarded against this sort of thing and made sure people tendered for the same standard or spec of work.

 

I don't know what happens now but I suppose council cuts have made it easy for contractors to bodge

[Khriss]

Well, good pollard jobs are worth having an good canopy trees too- public awareness first though. I would re-do most street limes, as water-cavities make em dodgy, but L planes leave to a good 3-storie canopy tree. Pollarding is useful on the right species. But when are we gonna get the cash ?

 

K

[Joe]

am i right in thinking that pollarding more often than not increases the life of the tree? and here in Coventry many street trees are pollarded.