Redbull
ArboristSite Guru
Treeseer, your way of thinning makes much more sense for the health of the tree. Thanks for the help guys.I've learned a lot from all of your responses and I will take into consideration your recommendations on my next job.
Crown Restoration:Before & After
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jason j ladue
Vanilla Snoop
redbull, sorry bout the sidetrack :angel: i dont wanna fly a kite through it, i just wanna let some light through it 
MasterBlaster
TreeHouse Elder
That sounds like the beginning of a song...
jason j ladue
Vanilla Snoop
this should be so easy. dont have to be no fight to it. come on baby, let me up your trunk...[bridge]
I think overall your intentions were good, and for the most part what you tried to do was sound. But to follow with the general spirit of the others who have weighed in, I think you tried to accomplish a little too much in one stop. Crown restoration of abused trees, really requires a cycle of several prunings to be complete. In that situation, maybe leaving some of the crossing and rubbing limbs in for the next cycle might have been best in this situation. From the photos it really is hard to tell. It seems like you did the best you could with what there was.
Redbull
ArboristSite Guru
Once again thanks for the input. Next time I run into this situation, I'm going to do things in stages. That does make a lot more sense. It's obvious the tree needs as much of an energy reserve as it can get. I can recall some stuff that I took out that could have waited until the next maintainance cyle.
