Birch Reductions

[josharb87]

Birch reductions from today

 

Bit of an urban myth (i think) over here that birches cant be pruned or reduced??? Thoughts?

 

5 reduced, 3 pruned and a pine pruned today, about 5 hours climbing time, half an hour swearing at the throwline

 

some pictures are of the same tree from different views

 

Reductions:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

the Pine prune and 2 of the 3 Birchs pruned

 

[Steve Bullman]

Cracking work as always Josh...Nothing wrong with a sympathetic silver birch reduction IMO

[detritus21]

The reason people think you can't reduce them is they done do well after brutal topping. Sympathetic reductions are fine.

 

nice work

[josharb87]

cheers the tops that came out were about 3-4m long give or take, so height reduction was around 3m on most