To big to pollard (top and lop)

[Stephen Blair]

there are no suitable growth points doing a British version of a pollard, as in a 20ft stump!

Cut it where it suits the nieghbour, ideally in reach of a double extension ladder and leave him a set of loppers!

[ASH TREE SURGEON]

If one of the options is fell it and be done, why not pollard it right back to the trunk almost?

Leave one branch to act as a lung and cut that off when the tree gets going again.

Can look a bit of a bollox but will be a nice looking tree again soon enough. Nature has done a few like that at my place (blown big limbs off) and they grow back again.

 

Keeps the tree and neighbours are happy.

 

 

Well said! 👍👍👍👍👍