Fracture Pruning Retrenchment on Fulham Oak

[Peter]

Why not just buy some ear defenders? Then you can do a proper clean-up and save your marriage!

[arbogrunt]

A lovely piece of work monkeyd!. I do quite a bit of work for my local Wildlife Trust and do lots of NFP/Coronet cuts (and have done for the last 8 years or so).

If its in a woodland it should look as natural as possible and if it enhances habitat for wildlife, then its the way to go.

BigA has made a good point, no doubt NPTC will be introducing a new unit to cover this work.

[treejumper]

Monkeyd - Excellent example of fracture pruning.

All power to you elbow!

[David Humphries]

Third picture is the Tree with it's first spring flush.

Hoping that there will be a further flush on the wound wood come Lamas.

Will update with close ups later in the year.

[christreeroot]

hmmm very nice - well done

[Ben]

I'm impressed with the result.

[David Humphries]

Thanks Fellas, will pass on your comments to the team :wave:

[MattyF]

not trying to sound deconstructive but if you want to encourage a flush of growth.... lower and harder on the entrenchment pruning is the option?

what you have done there looks more like a 15% reduction but with tears,from what ive seen with crown regeneration if this is what your trying to encourage surely this wont cause the dormant bud explosion a heavy reduction would encourage?

[David Humphries]

not trying to sound deconstructive but if you want to encourage a flush of growth.... lower and harder on the entrenchment pruning is the option?

what you have done there looks more like a 15% reduction but with tears,from what ive seen with crown regeneration if this is what your trying to encourage surely this wont cause the dormant bud explosion a heavy reduction would encourage?

 

Deconstruction is but the flip side of the same coin that is the state of learning Matty; so the message, to one and all as eluded to before, is feel free to chip in. This Ego is all for a touch of levelling now and again. :wave:

 

I think you hold a fair point with regards to the Re trenchment and dormant bud explosion......but we are also attempting to create a retrenched crown, which would naturally appear stag headed as in the 3rd pic which mature trees will eventually resemble.

This obviously gives us the desired reduced sail plus the ecological benefit of decaying/dead retained branches.

Any foliage at the extremities is IMO a net gain in terms of additional energy production.

[MattyF]

i very much enjoy your work monkey and love seeing the progress.

if you ever get the time or opertunity i would like to see the results of limbs been ring barked a few feet to encourage stags headness