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Only watched the Euc, enjoyed it great rigging, really professional.

Threads change and develop, I am not trying to defend it it's just that you have spent a lot of it talking about the practice of "Topping" I am merely asking what exactly you mean by it, your take on it if you like. Seems a valid question

School ground? really? How so? Anyway I would like your definition of Topping. Please.

Looks very good, Back in the Uk I used to take out a lot of conifer hedges grind the stumps then.....stupidly give the fencing away; I should have done it myself. regrets regrets.

The first picture is of repeatedly trained Planes the second is I think a heavily reduced Chestnut there is no comparison. Maybe it had a completely dead top I dunno. Looks crap atm I'll give you that, Need a back story really. Re-pollarding as re the picture you have put there, which to my mind, at least at that scale, borders on pleaching, looks great, and it would be good to see it in the UK more often. Out here the formation and trimming work is done by cantonniers or council workers, small cherry picker, and 4 blokes, no skill or knowledge required (certainly not by an elageur/grimper) although I have seen in the early stages some councils use Pros on the formation of Planes. Is topping bad practice? the big one, well I would want a concise definition of what that means exactly before committing Arbtalk suicide it is in the word really, If a client wanted a lombardy Pop reduced in height is that topping? It comes back to a point I made earlier about treating different species of trees the same, does not make any sense. Mick

They've been done/topped before, apparently, and yet the streets are not littered with squashed students, how did that happen?

Stolen to order I guess, it's unlikely to be in someone"s drive under a sheet.

Mewp, traffic lights....anyway someone has just managed it!

That's bad (to put it mildly) how would they convert a machine like that into money? would be impossible to export surely?

While will they be a pain? doddle. Look as Tony Croft said street trees get tonked end of. As for Dean's comment about all the visitors to York,do you think they are going to look at the trees and projectile vomit, only other arbs notice these things. I realise that by not extolling the virtues the High Church of tree management I might be perceived as a heretic but I find the Orwellian dogma of "pollarding good, topping bad" too simplistic and plain dumb.

I imagine the usual, Light, roots, danger to property.

Don't know what that bit means, I do know what sanctimony means and this post is full of it.

Round Up every fortnight.

Pithy:001_smile:

If the intention is to render a tree more suitable to its location ( usually meaning make it smaller, intentional avoidance there of words like topping, reduction etc)Then a Poplar, given a severe muppeting will be back to full leaf cover, and pleasing to the eye within months, if not weeks so why pretend it"s a veteran Oak in need of careful tickling to ensure its not an offence to the eye for a decade or ruin the future health of the tree. Tickle a Pop like that and your back to square one within one growing season. That's why it's daft (imo)

These are street trees, limes that have been put there in the anticipation of a regular hiding, high pollard, low pollard call it what you like they needed trimming, pruning or reducing, because they were getting too big for their environment. "Light formative prune" really won't cut it on these, plus it is as easy to do this as mucking around taking off a few feet with a silky, they look a bit rubbish now but by the end of summer they will have thrown out stacks of growth. "oh but it will have to been done again in a few years!" well yeah so what? that's part of our our job Imho many people are blind to the fact that treating limes, willows, poplars etc in the same way as walnuts, oaks, and beech is like a Vet treating dogs and cows the same. Oaks and Poplars for example are very different, to reduce them both to a similar spec is daft. Don't want a war, just saying.

Poor guy's hiding behind the sofa now! brilliant! there but for the grace of God.....

Me neither.

limes?

Ok thanks, interesting.

Following the thread with interest, question....... is there any problem insurance wise with having something nearly 2mtrs long poking out the front of the mog? have you ever had a tug from the fuzz asking questions?

Ime You could take 50 per cent or more without any detriment to the hedge, what it looks like is a different matter.

That's crazy talk! I have done my share of bramble clearing in my fields. Tips 1;Take off the guard (ensure good face protection!) 2; start at the top of the bramble and sweep down in waves of around a foot or so, till you get to the ground; Works for me:001_smile:

Don't obsess about bar size, it's the engine that counts, Go to a Husky/Stihl/Jonsered/Echo dealer and pick a few up, sounds to me as if an engine between 40 and 55 cc would suit you best. Just my opinion

It's raining, called it off.