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[John Paul Sanborn]

I'm all for that Butch, I carp on it all the time.

Sometimes there is not gentle way to go about it.

This is ArboristSite after all, it's been a few years since the consensus was made that blowing the top out of a tree and walking away was not proper tree care.

My post was expressing my incredulous state, that someone would actually come and say "Hey look an me buthcer this tree, I know it's not an acsepted practice, btu the owner wanted it, so that makes it ok!"

I do this because i love trees, not because I love loud tools and the smell fo sawdust. Climbing is fun too, but trees fill me with awe and wonder.

 

[MasterBlaster]

I think I have one of the neatest jobs in the world.


Too bad old Steve B didn't just say he was taking the tree down....:alien:

 

[murphy4trees]

Here's a pretty one.

 

[ramanujan]

find the climber


note how far the spar stands up after the top is gone. this red cedar had begun to fall but was resting against a large rock. approx 25' below the bank that is not visible.
a good sized top

failed maple stems

 

[NeTree]

Gee, if he thinks THAT was ballbusting, he should have been here a few months ago.

But hey, mine are made of steel so I recover just fine.


JPS... what's wrong with the smell of sawdust?


Bid a job today, pretty much topping no matter what you may want to call it. I don't feel guilty though... these are 10' to 15' tall ornamentals the lady wants to KEEP ornamental. If these were large pines or oaks, I'd walk away.

I'm sure they'll be much better when I leave than they were when I got there. I'll try to get some pics of what the LAST guy did. All you can see is 4" diameter STUBS sticking thru sucker growth. They really look like hell.


And coincidentally, Shigo-ism AIN'T the full bible.

 

[John Paul Sanborn]

In these situations I feel I'm maintaining a stand of trees. make sure there are smaller ones left to take over and that the client knows that we are creating a future removal.

I will not get involved in clearing slope/bluff veiws, but I have doen some drastic pruning to create specific "lines of sight" After all, one leaf will occlude the veiw, and removal may compromise the slope stability.


Another thing we do is leave high stumps, for more buds to regenerate basally, when we do need to remove, and stack all brush in perpendicular to the slope so that it is dense and no more the 2-3 feet high. Sometines lacing it in amongst the stumps of small trees.

usning a climbing line for scaleing will help move along steep slopes, and decrease your disturbance of the soil.