What are your opinions on this?

[Hodge]

Whats the concern over sap?. If its because of their cars.

 

[ATTACH]189530[/ATTACH]

 

This would be a better solution.

 

 

Garden decking.

[Mick Dempsey]

Id rather not, people will see me leaving it looking like that and word gets around. Think I'll pass. Too many folk round here to slag work off.

 

The only people's opinions worth worrying about is the clients. Not the bitchy transit full of newly qualified know it alls.

[stihlmadasever]

I appreciate your proffesionalism but if it were me id take the money and run.Ive seen awful tree work but normal untrained people dont know any better and wouldnt batter an eyelid.If im being honest ive butchered some trees aswell to make a client happy.All you can do is advise,if they wont c sense-do it there way and get paid.

[skyhuck]

He who pays the piper names the tune.

[glark]

The only people's opinions worth worrying about is the clients. Not the bitchy transit full of newly qualified know it alls.

 

Too true

[Ian C]

I think it's a pretty poor spec but hey that's life, I would of speced it with a proper target prune but if your working to some one else's spec just advise and crack on! Like huck says the person paying the bill gets the last shout!

[carlos]

is the argument for leaving a long stub to prevent decay in the main stem not valid? genuinely interested in peoples opinion.

carl

[Kveldssanger]

is the argument for leaving a long stub to prevent decay in the main stem not valid? genuinely interested in peoples opinion.

carl

 

Largely, no - to my understanding. You prune to the collar so that callus can form and subsequently woundwood can also form. By leaving a stub, not only are you not enabling wound closure, though you're also allowing in pathogens that can utilise the now dying branch for future attach purposes - they may lie dormant within the trunk collar and then attack as the branch dies back.

 

Branch removal should, in a manner of speaking, mimic the natural branch-shedding process. A branch would not shed itself to leave a stub - it would shed at the collar and the wound would then occlude.

 

The branch protection zone is pretty good at resisting decay, so where pruning is done properly (to the collar), there's reduced risk of infection and better occlusion. Otherwise, the tree will have to shed the stub at some point anyway, too.

 

Bit of a raw explanation, but hopefully you get what I mean.

[glark]

Depends on the the limb size compared to the trunk I think. If its a big limb that the tree tree has no chance of occluding then all your doing is creating a wildlife habitat I reckon

[Kveldssanger]

Absolutely, though I will also add that wound occlusion has little significant relevance to successful compartmentalisation of invading pathogens. As in, a wound that occludes very quickly doesn't mean that it has resisted decay well - there could be a huge decay column.