Pruning cuts

[detritus21]

Standard hawthorn cut for clearence

 

I guess the op has just read done his pruning assignment in college and now is a expert on all forms of tree work

 

Ah but should it be the standard cut for clearance. Yes its achieved the desired effect but does it fit into BS3998 there is the question. Where does it say when pruning for clearance the operator must leave a stub. Surely if the pruning is going to be done "correctly" the regrowth will be less aggressive and the desired clearance will be maintained for longer without the need for repeat visits to deal with the epicormic that will cause problems further down the line. For the sake of another minute you might as well prune it back to the the appropriate place.

 

I appreciate however the habitat creation as mentioned by Treequip but was habitat creation the aim?

[roseyweb]

Ah but should it be the standard cut for clearance. Yes its achieved the desired effect but does it fit into BS3998 there is the question. Where does it say when pruning for clearance the operator must leave a stub. Surely if the pruning is going to be done "correctly" the regrowth will be less aggressive and the desired clearance will be maintained for longer without the need for repeat visits to deal with the epicormic that will cause problems further down the line. For the sake of another minute you might as well prune it back to the the appropriate place.

 

I appreciate however the habitat creation as mentioned by Treequip but was habitat creation the aim?

 

Are you aware this is a hawthorn which is a bushy shrubby type thing not a majestic oak,

If you need to reduce a massive hawthorn to a 4 ft stump which is what thatseems bs3998 don't come into it anywhere,

I doubt the OP knows what the desired effect was to be, it could have been to create a low hedge or leave a stump for a digger to rip out.

 

This forums become far to saturated with people who have only ever experienced real tree work in textbooks

[detritus21]

I'm well aware hawthorn is a bushy shrub but also a tree. All I am pointing out is that in theory BS3998 is what one is meant to do. I live in the real world however and also realise that it is not always practical to do so. However from the pictures it may have been practical to remove said stump back to the one behind eliminating the points for regrowth. Its what I'd have done if it was my company doing the work. Yes there would be one monster wound but it wouldn't be coming back in a hurry. At the end of the day it is job achieved. I personally think that utility and roadside work sometimes needs challenging especially when us mear domestic contractors then have to explain why their TPO's hawthorn (Yes there are some) can't have the same done.

[Stubby]

Are you aware this is a hawthorn which is a bushy shrubby type thing not a majestic oak,

If you need to reduce a massive hawthorn to a 4 ft stump which is what thatseems bs3998 don't come into it anywhere,

I doubt the OP knows what the desired effect was to be, it could have been to create a low hedge or leave a stump for a digger to rip out.

 

This forums become far to saturated with people who have only ever experienced real tree work in textbooks