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Time wise I don't know Guy, there's topping and there's topping! I would probably get up the central leader with the client in attendance and ask him where he want the tree taken down to (a certain amount of discussion is normal, if it's crazy hard) Then start there and work around the tree...

Tell you what, spend all day cutting as little as possible off, blind the client with BS about ISA regs or whatever, when he dares to say that he was hoping for something a bit more radical, lecture him about the evils of topping, tell him you're not that sort of tree surgeon and flounce off.

Cheers, it's very easy, hackwork with a bit of remote "shape awareness" maybe that's the issue. Gotta make life difficult.

Well, what's in a name? From the clients viewpoint it'd cost as much to do every year as every seven years. We all have our own personal high horse we get on and for me it's that "the rules" don't differentiate between species of tree as far as what constitutes acceptable. A bit like a...

serious post?

Sure, none taken. Just to blur the lines a bit more here's a couple of pictures of an common intervention that I took photos of just to show off my new truck. A lime/linden/tillieul tree in a courtyard that 7 years ago was all over the roof of the house and generally "un peu trop" So after...

For you Squish, previous post on this thread. Me being all caring... if it was your intention to hurt me, you suceeded:lol:

Crack a small branch and see if it bleeds, the official line (here) on walnuts and some other bleeders is do them in full leaf.

Number 2 has already been done (by Stevie Wonder) just go back to previous points Nos 3&4 don't seem to need anything. In these cases I always ask the client "what is it about the tree that upsets/worries you" If they say "I just thought it needs some maintence" then lift and deadwood, if it's a...

Loads of trees can be topped late then start a pollard cycle.

Dunno, is that a Chinese recipe? I usually take sandwiches to work.:D What you call sycamore which I understand to be very close to what we call London Plane or Platane here in France is the best of the bunch for a pollard. What we call sycamore does ok as well (that's an edit as I've seen...

I've always considered them rather worthy candidates for a pollard, depending on which sort exactly.