Don't top lombardys

[Barney]

Did you climb it??? If so, How did you justify climbing in your risk assesment???

 

Yea climbed it, it was climbable just didn't feel very safe. I was able stand where it was previously topped and smash it out in big pieces. As for the risk assessment I just sign it and get on with whatever job the team leader wants me to do.

[John Hancock]

Yea climbed it, it was climbable just didn't feel very safe. I was able stand where it was previously topped and smash it out in big pieces. As for the risk assessment I just sign it and get on with whatever job the team leader wants me to do.

 

 

Wish my lot would do that..lol

[dannyT]

pops, willow and birch are the rebels of the tree world "grow fast, and die fast" Got told that at work today LOL

[Pete Mctree]

Lombardy pops are horrible trees. If left to there own devices they usually decay at the base and fail. If topped they decay even quicker.

 

I'm happy to top them - usually recomend a height somwhere between 12 feet and 2 inches To be honest the more i cut off the happier i am

[arnoldbuchsassinger]

They are all effectively pioneering species, leave a piece of scrub land and the first thing that seeds is the birch, it also the first thing to die, they all will survive where the slow growing stuff wont put a foot, Poplar always at industrial waste sites which have crap contaminated soil etc, Poplar, stick it in bog and it will grow. Just risk assess before you sit on the toilet seat.

[Marc]

I had a job spec to reduce a 40ft Lombardy by 2m once, i think it was a typo must of meant to 2m!