how do i reduce this...

[Skyveiw]

I been asked by client to reduce this rather large ash normal i would feel fair happy about but here were my problem lies. The tree was topped maybe 30 years ago and everything gone straight up and with butchering the tree how do i retain a nice shape or every get a nice shape back. The customer wants it down by half if not lower due to proximity to house so how would you go about it?

 

Skyview

[geoff]

Not easy to see in the picture, but value for money, and trying to achieve the customers aims, I would be considering a re pollard as an option.

[Skyveiw]

would they help it regain it shape? (over several years and pruning it every few years)

[geoff]

If you can't get a good shape to it and get the height the client wants by reduction a pollard does give oportunity to prune for new shape to some extent, once the new growth develops, but see what other opinions come up.

[Skyveiw]

ok it going to be nightmare of job as there steep banking and stream once side house and small garden on other along with heaps of comfiers around so most it have to speed-line out and then large section careful rigged ouu

[geoff]

It looks a bit of a fun one...

[Skyveiw]

well let hope the planning pays off and it run smooth

[Couldyajust]

If the client wants it reduced by 50%+ then they are probably not that attached to it why not suggest felling it & planting something more appropriate for the space available.

[Mick Dempsey]

Repollard or at least create new higher pollard points a metre or so above which will enable you to create some kind of shape.

Ash will respond well to this treatment.

 

Pay no mind to the "fell and replace with something appropriate" brigade

[5 shires]

Repollard or at least create new higher pollard points a metre or so above which will enable you to create some kind of shape.

Ash will respond well to this treatment.

 

Pay no mind to the "fell and replace with something appropriate" brigade

 

As above.....repollard 2 or 3 meters above main stem and in no time at all you'll have better shaped more natural looking tree and more easily to maintain and manage.