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Treevet
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ok....? Have a good day. I'm headed out.
you got it dude. I prefer basing what I do on research rather than old wive's tales. Keep hacking those trees up and you're eliminating a hole market for yourself out there that isn't just looking for tree garbage removal.
So how can you say that topping is harming the health of a tree?
It must be a soil thing over there orrrrrr something, cuz over here 4 outta 5 trees that I've topped and later checked them were stone dead.
Let me add a little analogy to my opinion...
You work and live in the city and vacation comes and you take your family out to a beautiful park in a very remote area. You are camping and you see a bear. You all are in awe of its natural and unaccustomed presence.
Then as he turns and walks back into the woods, you see something on the back of his ear, and it is a tag with the number 47 on it. Everyone looks at each other and thinks, "that ain't right".
You could be quite correct - I also think its very species dependant.
It is!
Very few species lend themselves to pollarding: sycamore, linden, horsechestnut, some poplars and willows are the only ones I know of.
They probably have more further to the south, we northerners are not exactly gifted with an abundance of species
'a hole' market? asshole market? market in holes? maybe a whole market?
Hey TreeVet, I've been to Cincinatty once. You ever been beyond the US? Old wives tales eh? Thing is, there are french books on correct pruning techniques and decay paterns from the 1800's. Its something we do know about. I have a degree in Urban Forestry and Arboriculture - so research is something I'm familiar with.
I don't get the analogy, sorry.
I don't advocate pollarding wild trees in the woods.
If you sit and relax in the shade in a spanish outdoor restaurant, enjoying a few tapas and a glass of chilled fino sherry under the sycamores, which have been carefully pruned and pollarded over time to form a flat canopy to keep the sun out, Do you then get irritated over the fact that the trees aren't "natural" and think: "that ain't right"??
You crazy nergos.
Do you guys wear spikes when topping/pollarding? If so, why when it is only some more injury