a light trim
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I don't get it and I never will.
Almost all the landscraper companies here will do that or very similar if asked to 'trim the tree'. I have lost count of people who come crying to me after the fact. They know what they want and assume that the grass cutters will know what to do with a big tree.
I leave the grass and hedges to them, they should leave the trees to me!
Almost all the landscraper companies here will do that or very similar if asked to 'trim the tree'. I have lost count of people who come crying to me after the fact. They know what they want and assume that the grass cutters will know what to do with a big tree.
I leave the grass and hedges to them, they should leave the trees to me!
MasterBlaster
Administrator Emeritus
Perhaps he was surrounded by foam.
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chucky
Guest
Hard to believe that still goes on when all you have to do is google "how to prune a tree."
CurSedVoyce
California Hillbilly
See it all the time up here. Scarey.
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Wagnaw
Guest
Welcome to Western North Carolina...
PCTREE
Treehouser
OK just to play devils ad. When I used to live in France and Belgium it was standard practice to "pollard" all street trees. The trees lived for years and never became a hazard and some old guy with an orchard ladder and a hand saw would do the work. From a municiple standpoint it made a lot of sense, that was 20 years ago so maybe the ISA has imprisoned all the old dudes and now they have big dangerous street trees...........
MasterBlaster
Administrator Emeritus
Yea, but for at least half the year they look like shite.
FJR
Treehouser
Think I'm a few beers behind to try reading some of the these sentences Kirk lol 
Old Monkey
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looks good..come on down.
famous qoute from my previous boss
I have always liked, "Looks good....looks even better from my house."
MasterBlaster
Administrator Emeritus
I was trying to give them the benefit of the doubt...
CurSedVoyce
California Hillbilly
Now I really need to post some picks when I pollard.....
MasterBlaster
Administrator Emeritus
Don't presume to tell us what to do, buddy. Stay out of this thread if it bores you.
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JamesTX
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OK just to play devils ad. When I used to live in France and Belgium it was standard practice to "pollard" all street trees. The trees lived for years and never became a hazard and some old guy with an orchard ladder and a hand saw would do the work. From a municiple standpoint it made a lot of sense, that was 20 years ago so maybe the ISA has imprisoned all the old dudes and now they have big dangerous street trees...........
We went to France a few years back and I really liked the pollarded trees. I've seen them down in Mexico around the churches too.
Are you a bit grumpy today, Boss.
I was merely passing along the information, that this subject has been covered in dept already.
Or at least I thought that was what I was doing?
OK just to play devils ad. When I used to live in France and Belgium it was standard practice to "pollard" all street trees. The trees lived for years and never became a hazard and some old guy with an orchard ladder and a hand saw would do the work. From a municiple standpoint it made a lot of sense, that was 20 years ago so maybe the ISA has imprisoned all the old dudes and now they have big dangerous street trees...........
Yes but a pollard is definite, time tested method of controlling tree size in a specific locality. Also if a tree is due to become a pollard it is treated as such from the beginning and its maintenance and pruning has a plan. What we are takling about is mature trees hacked down to the nubs waaay past the time and size if it were ever supposed to be a pollard. 'Topping' and hacking is NOT pollarding!
When people see a mature pollarded tree, it may look like it was cut back to 'nubs' because the trunk and scaffolds are thick, heavy and mature. Thats because those bits are never cut, and have never been since the tree was planted, well, except for the first cut when it was of the proper size to do so. So all the ensuing time, the scaffold branches and trunk have been increasing in girth, the 'cats heads' (pollard points) swell, and everything else above is annual ( or whatever pruning cycle they choose) growth that is periodicly removed.
Check the picture - that is NOT pollarding, its a tree massacre!
