Silver Birch pruning

[Mark Bolam]

I've done loads.

Some of them even lived.

 

 

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[treesrus]

i always try to persuade customers to leave their Birch trees alone, i have seen too many butchered, but as a popular urban tree, it can be a beautiful tree if left alone. the only thing i will do is a crown lift.

[Mike Dempsey]

Although I am into alaskan milling trees up in a big way my favourite tree is the silver birch. I have only milled up one which was 28" in dia and there arent many of them about. I think its a beautiful tree to look at, both in the winter and summer. I planted one in the garden when my son, Joshua, was born 21 years ago. Although we are tight for space we havent pruned it and its a magnificent specimen.

[Ty Korrigan]

Personally, I never refuse a job even when the client demands a 50% birch reduction.

In this case I'll try and sell a removal and replant but I'll always give the client what they want in the end.

Ty

[Goaty]

Although I am into alaskan milling trees up in a big way my favourite tree is the silver birch. I have only milled up one which was 28" in dia and there arent many of them about. I think its a beautiful tree to look at, both in the winter and summer. I planted one in the garden when my son, Joshua, was born 21 years ago. Although we are tight for space we havent pruned it and its a magnificent specimen.

 

 

If you'd pruned it regularly it would of looked like a proper joshua tree.

[AA Teccie (Paul)]

Theory n academia (mid Summer avoiding prolonged drought spells / winter avoiding prolonged frost) "versus" practicalities n economics ("anytime the customer has the money!")

 

Suggest making an assessment of the trees ability to withstand the pruning and, "less is more" generally with Birch. Avoiding Spring when they bleed is good but largely unsightly / concerning to owner rather than significant from tree health point of view.

 

So, "crack on"...

Paul

[Ty Korrigan]

I want it done now!/ My wife is afraid of it falling on the house/ I'm cheesed off with leaves and seeds/ My daughter is allergic to the pollen/I want sun on my decking/I will be at the house (second home) only on this date in April (bad time eh?) If you don't do it when I want it done the way I want it done I'll get some-one else who likes cash type folding money more than you to do exactly what I want to this unfortunate short lived birch.

 

Ty:001_rolleyes:

[Goaty]

Wow the French really are tantrum throwers Ty!

 

Do you really enjoy dealing with such people?

 

 

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[Mark Bolam]

I thought he'd been working in Kent?

 

 

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[Ty Korrigan]

Well...

Just visited a 'potential client'...

Gay guy, proper queen, lisp, effeminate and totally over the top theatrical hand gestures, wasn't sure he was real or not.

Want's us to fell his NEIGHBOURS birch as the seed in his velux/leaves in his gutters/windblown twigson his lawn/blocked evening light on his decking make his life totally unliveable and he is considering moving rather than suffering his neighbours tree.

I thought I was on a French hidden camera programme it was that crazy.

It's a walk away fast and never pick up the phone to this number again situation and I get them on a regular basis.

I freely admit that I don't have the tolerance for such people.

Tuesday, it's Auld Rob's turn to mediate between an American couple and their French neighbour with the local council representative over trees which make the Americans house apparantly 'unsaleable'.

The American couple are in a state of near hysteria and are sleeping in a room on the other side of the house from the trees they are that afraid of one coming down on their heads in the night.

 

Ty:001_rolleyes: