how do i reduce this...

[Couldyajust]

How can I put this?

You're talking out of your rear end.

 

Fairly sure I am talking from personal experience rather than from my rear end.

In the last 20 years I have only had 1 "too close to the house" customer that asked for my opinion of what is the best course of action & actually listened which on that occasion was a spectacular maple in perfect health & my advice was to do nothing the rest have made their own decisions uninfluenced & that maple is still there & aside from one squirrel damaged dead branch being removed it has not been pruned. The rest of the customers had the trees removed completely a year or two later. I also regularly get asked to remove trees that other tree surgeons have pruned within the last year or so because the clients do not want to offend the person who originally carried out the work as this is a small community where everybody knows each other.

[Mick Dempsey]

I would be more offended that they got another contractor to do the tree work.

I don't really believe your stories about mass tree removal one year after pruning.