Reducing and Indian bean tree?

[born2trot]

Cool , every day a learning day on arbtalk

[Mick Dempsey]

  born2trot said:

Cool , every day a learning day on arbtalk

 

That's true.

[tree-fancier123]

I cut one only about 3" diameter stem to the ground, as customer said it was too close to another tree. It put on about 6ft the year after. Maybe a mature specimen wouldn't have so much go in it.

[Starscream]

Will the leaves come back bigger after a hard prune?

[Thesnarlingbadger]

  born2trot said:

Customer has asked for a reduction and your talking about pollarding !! What ?

 

 

Yeah as Mick said afterwards it would be a pointless exercise given the amount I could take off. I just needed to know what my options where when it came to it. And what advice I could give to my client.

[Thesnarlingbadger]

  tree-fancier123 said:

I cut one only about 3" diameter stem to the ground, as customer said it was too close to another tree. It put on about 6ft the year after. Maybe a mature specimen wouldn't have so much go in it.

 

 

Wow I had no idea they were so resilient, sound like the fight a willow would but up.

[Mick Dempsey]

I would compare it to elder, both in the lightness and fragility of the wood and its regrowth capability.

[Thesnarlingbadger]

  Mick Dempsey said:

I would compare it to elder, both in the lightness and fragility of the wood and its regrowth capability.

 

 

Awesome, good comparison and one I can easily relate to. Thanks Mick

[Big Beech]

  Mick Dempsey said:

Loads of them out here, don't be fooled, they respond well to a hammering.

Pollard away....

 

I've seen the state of your reductions before, now I no why. They where all Pollard's!

[Mick Dempsey]

I was ahead of my time.:proud: