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He readily admits that it was terrible. We now operate on knowledge gained from treatments such as this skinning, and topping, with decades worth of growth, decay and failures.

Along the lines of Gord's wind-firming around timber cuts, trees which significantly have a change in their environments, and become relatively quickly more wind-exposed, I can see some thinning being important for their wind-firmness. Such a case is with land clearing and remnant trees, whether...

Something that occurs to me is that trees compensate for lost foliage by growing more from reserve energy. With all the interior stripped out, it would seem that the growth would come at the ends, further increasing the lion tailing effect. I'll say that the person who talked to me about the...

I'm with you Brian. Usually people spike their way up and down, too.

Brian, I don't know if you got the wrong impression, if you skimmed what I wrote. Eric, Gord had a thread about wind-firming. This was very different, as it was for the new edge trees along a logging cut, and want to protect individual trees, but rather the stand as a whole, with some...

Common residential practices sold are "wind thinning", "wind sail reduction", "wind lacing" or "spiral pruning". Windsail reduction is often stripping out the inner canopy foliage, aka lion-tailing. Usually this is by climbing up the trunk and cutting what can be reached while "lanyarded-in"...