What the ?????

[Jumper]

Good point.

 

[romeo]

I know a guy who cuts his maple like that about every two years. It seams excessive but it comes back fairly quick and looks good.

 

[Jumper]

????????(exaspirated sigh)

QUOTE his maple UNQUOTE

 

[oldugly]

That has got to be a removal...
No one I know still pollards trees...and even IF they did, that isn't even a good job of that.
Back in ancient history when pollarding was acceptable, (or at least before it was common knowledge that it wasn't acceptable) the tree still needed to be at least rounded to produce a desired canopy.
Plus with the rips in those cuts I cannot conceive that anyone would consider those finished cuts, or that tree a finished product.

 

[Jumper]

It is not a removal....the previous explain how a homeowner did this to a city owned tree on the boulevard between the sidewalk and road, and what happened since. The tree is still standing, looks like h*ll, but the city figures it not worth cutting down.

 

[Stumper]

Ugly, True Pollarding is still an acceptable pruning practice. It involves small diameter initial cuts, formation of woundwood 'knuckles' and repeated cyclical removal of epicormic regrowth. The pictured destruction isn't pollarding even though some of us once tried to call it that. It is topping and it is horrible.