Please rate and criticize my reduction!

[Joe Newton]

Glad you noticed he asked for criticism.

 

 

 

Not much point making any though, as the criticism got edited out.

 

 

 

I think the point is that there are many 'pointless' things that people do, but most of them don't involve seperating an 'old lady' from her cash.

 

 

 

Personally, if I may be so bold, I would have told her to save her cash as nuffin really needs doing to the stupid tree.

 

 

So you don't reckon the end result was more aesthetically pleasing than previous? I'd imagine this is what the "old lady" was after, and was happy to pay for the service. Nothing here suggests she was press ganged into getting the work done.

[Mat]

Had a call to remove a copper beech as an elderly lady was told it was un safe by 2 men in a transit that knocked at her door, luckily she was going out so said they would have to come back another day and she found my number in the local parish mag and asked for a second opinion as the tree was planted by her late husband (it was probably the same 2 that 'pruned' it a few years earlier!)

 

Any way general crown clean and slight reduction to try and tidy it up.

 

Any thing any of you would have done different? Should I removed more/less? Different approach?

 

Not massively experienced on reductions so any advice good or bad is welcome!!

 

Cheers!

 

So you don't reckon the end result was more aesthetically pleasing than previous? I'd imagine this is what the "old lady" was after, and was happy to pay for the service. Nothing here suggests she was press ganged into getting the work done.

 

 

I think all the old lady was after was a bit of reassurance that her tree was not about to fall down on top of her or her neighbours.

 

I see nothing in the origional post to suggest she was not perfectly happy with the tree untill the door-to-door tree cutters turned up.

Edited March 3, 2015 by Mat

[ARP]

Hi mat,

 

I went there to quote a removal as this is what she had asked on the phone. When I got there I asked her reasoning for it with which she told me how she was instructed the tree was unsafe and needed to be removed. Once I reassured her the tree was in fact perfectly safe an not going to topple she she brought up the topic of 'can you make it a bit smaller then'.

 

Hope that clears it up! There was no pressuring her into having work done rather she asked my advice and what I would do to make it smaller. I think/hope my advice and my work that followed wasn't only best for the tree but aesthetically the best for her aswell.

[Mat]

Hi mat,

 

I went there to quote a removal as this is what she had asked on the phone. When I got there I asked her reasoning for it with which she told me how she was instructed the tree was unsafe and needed to be removed. Once I reassured her the tree was in fact perfectly safe an not going to topple she she brought up the topic of 'can you make it a bit smaller then'.

 

Hope that clears it up! There was no pressuring her into having work done rather she asked my advice and what I would do to make it smaller. I think/hope my advice and my work that followed wasn't only best for the tree but aesthetically the best for her aswell.

 

Well, on balance, I think you have done ok.

 

44 posts on your thread, only two of them criticised, and one of THEM got deleted

 

If somone produced a tree like that on a 'Cs40' training or assessment, I would be perfectly happy with it.

 

It is indeed tree shaped!

 

My point really was more to do with the fact that the majority of amenity arb is pointless, but there is a view often touted around theese parts that a bit of tree surgery is the most important thing in the world.

 

 

Cheers.

[Joe Newton]

Well, on balance, I think you have done ok.

 

44 posts on your thread, only two of them criticised, and one of THEM got deleted

 

If somone produced a tree like that on a 'Cs40' training or assessment, I would be perfectly happy with it.

 

It is indeed tree shaped!

 

My point really was more to do with the fact that the majority of amenity arb is pointless, but there is a view often touted around theese parts that a bit of tree surgery is the most important thing in the world.

 

 

Cheers.

 

 

Who's quote got deleted, Matt, and why?

[daltontrees]

Hi mat,

 

I went there to quote a removal as this is what she had asked on the phone. When I got there I asked her reasoning for it with which she told me how she was instructed the tree was unsafe and needed to be removed. Once I reassured her the tree was in fact perfectly safe an not going to topple she she brought up the topic of 'can you make it a bit smaller then'.

 

Hope that clears it up! There was no pressuring her into having work done rather she asked my advice and what I would do to make it smaller. I think/hope my advice and my work that followed wasn't only best for the tree but aesthetically the best for her aswell.

 

Belated welcome to Arbtalk, ARP. That's a neat pruning job and although I am frimly in the 'pruning is wounding' camp and would have said why harm this tree again after the Polish savaging it got, if your ethics and your workmanship are genuine I hope you go from strength to strength and let the occasional drivel of Arbtalk whistle past you, useful as a test of strength but no basis for over-riding sound instinct and judgement.

[Mountain man]

Belated welcome to Arbtalk, ARP. That's a neat pruning job and although I am frimly in the 'pruning is wounding' camp and would have said why harm this tree again after the Polish savaging it got, if your ethics and your workmanship are genuine I hope you go from strength to strength and let the occasional drivel of Arbtalk whistle past you, useful as a test of strength but no basis for over-riding sound instinct and judgement.

 

Wrong thread Jules, not the Polish on this one.

My take, it's a nice enough job, but probably just done standing on the old cuts.

Looks good but technically not really a stretch.

[daltontrees]

Wrong thread Jules, not the Polish on this one.

My take, it's a nice enough job, but probably just done standing on the old cuts.

Looks good but technically not really a stretch.

 

Acht, you're right it's not the Polish thread its the door-knocker-transit-mob one. Same message though, poor b++++tree seen more trauma than 400 million years of evolution has equipped it to survive.

 

These delicate reductions are hard to get right. Really unless you re-distribute the hormone (auxin) production in a near-prefect way it can all go pear/banana/coffin shaped. Just as art imitates life and bad art is bad, arboriculture imitates nature and bad arb is bad...

[Mat]

Who's quote got deleted, Matt, and why?

 

Hi Joe. Andy Perkins first comment was post 17, but it got deleted. Now it’s gone, the second Ty Korrigan post looks like a rather strange comment!

 

Dunno why it was deleted, maybe because he swore!

[Joe Newton]

Hi Joe. Andy Perkins first comment was post 17, but it got deleted. Now it’s gone, the second Ty Korrigan post looks like a rather strange comment!

 

 

 

Dunno why it was deleted, maybe because he swore!

 

 

Ah, it was the post I quoted too, which you later quoted in a different thread. My post, on it's own, seems depressingly apathetic. It was meant as a satirical reply to the deleted post.

 

My hostility was out of order in the other thread Matt, it felt petty at the time, but out of context I get your point. Apologies.