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So many young arborists today would have a word to say to the contrary. And it is a failing point of the new generation to not accept old proven ways of arborculture. Worse is to for them to condemn it in open forums. When they are not even as old as the methods that took generations to prove...

brutal. Now that is a little more than your average head it back job.

Thanks, Jay and many others here. I'm glad to see I not alone on this way of thinking. The sycamores in and around the De Young Museum in SF have been pollarded annually for longer than I have been alive and they're the same today as the first time I seen them in the latter 50s. Oh yeah...

Pollarding is a very popular method of trimming in many geographical areas. If done on an annual basis it can even be considered a form of prunning. Many trees adapt well to the practice. Though considered hack work by the purest and main stream thinking today the method has actually been in...

"Psycohack" I think you just made a new word there, Butch.

A very fine analogy, Dave. And certainly a good addition to the many constructive posts in this thread trying to define what exactly a hack is. I believe Frans Smith from Healdsburg California should get an honorable mention for starting this thread, and for the fact that the members of the...

Yes, Darin, it's how I came up in the business. And I'm sure for most that have stuck with it to make an honorable living of tree work.

I'm feel sure Alex Shigo had an epiphany early on in his life that lead him to become a visionary and good teacher.

I believe profoundly in education, and the fact that learning can bring understanding. I recall the term "hack" when I first started in the biz. June of 69. I wasn't qualified enough to say back then who was or who wasn't a hack. But in comparing to the standards of today everybody was a...

There's an abundance of hack experts over at the Buzz that can answer your question in volumes of rhetoric. All the scientific facts aside most tree work practices follow geographic lines of what is acceptable or unacceptable. There's way too many finger pointers out there. Consider, line...