Most vague work specs?

[Steve Bullman]

"General prune" regularly when I worked for LA.

 

 

These are the best specs as you can do what you like.

[Ian C]

Had a customer last year ask if I could prune his pear tree to stop it fruiting! I said yeah no problem prune at ground level should do it

[skyhuck]

Crown thin (no amount) -- when asked by how much they say "just make them look nice" I wanted to walk away from them, an avenue of 12 Prunus padus that have never been touched

 

Thats a good spec, I like jobs like that

[arbogrunt]

one LA in our neck of the woods...every spec is 'back to the cuts'

[Stephen Blair]

That's the ones you want, then if its a mess, blame the last guy

[Dan Curtis]

To be fair, on LA contracts where thousands of trees are being inspected and worked on, a detailed work specification is unfeasible.

 

I also worked on contracts where 'general prune' was one of the common instructions. Actually, this can be ok as long as the scope of a 'general prune' is defined somewhere so everyone knows what it does (and doesn't!) mean.

 

On LA contracts you could simply use codes for each job, which are referenced in a tree works specification manual...

 

"General prune" was defined in our contract handbook as to perform remedial pruning as required. So, in essence, do what we feel is right. The only downside was that what we deemed necessary usually didn't turn out to be the same thing as the junior T.O.

 

Never did on the ones with proper specs either:sneaky2:

[mtt.tr]

"make it look nice"

me "it looks nice as it Is."

"make it more Tree like"

 

Ends up becoming a mister men tree that I think looks shite but Boss and customer are pleased. Some days I work with idiots. Mostly I can get the customer to agree to the right thing.

 

One Boss really a gardener says to me how Tree workers think they are something special and doing minimal reductions are pointless and not good value for money. I tried explaining water sprouts looks unnatural. He will never get it

[RobRainford]

Had on a spec sheet in comments section "acorn tree?" Tickled me!

 

 

Also, crown thin and pollard, on one tree. The mind boggles!

 

 

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[CJM]

Most of the weird specs have been mentioned that I've had to work to but I like the terminology that people use like ' I want that tree crowning' wtf?? Then you ask them what crowning means and they have no idea themselves

[kav]

Cutting back laurel on playing field edge and asked how much they wanted off

 

"just make it look....sexy" !!!!!!!