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    Hamadryad Interesting pic. I think the secret of pollarding is once you start you have to carry on at the right intervals. The junction of the regrowth is limited in strength at the point where the pollard was first cut and if it is overstood,ie allowed to get too big, it will not be able to support the ever increasing weight of the new bough. The result is what you see here, coupled with weaking by fungal attack which has taken advantage of the earlier wound. It's the same with coppicing. In that case if you miss a rotation you lose the stool, but done regularly it will survive for many centuries, possibly longer than if the tree was left to grow and decline naturally. Jonathanc

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