Tree trimming...is this something new.

[Pigeon_Droppings2]

Its called a Coronet cut.

Cheers @8ob ....knowledge base on here never fails to amaze me.

It makes sense when explained but I can imagine there's a lot of confused locals wondering what on earth is going on.

 

[Morrisman]

Every few years they hack the hell out of the trees down near my old house, they look awful, but a year or two later they’re back in full strength. As mentioned, it stops them getting too big. These were just straight cut, no fancy zig zag stuff.

Google Street view:

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[pedrobedro]

Every few years they hack the hell out of the trees down near my old house, they look awful, but a year or two later they’re back in full strength. As mentioned, it stops them getting too big. These were just straight cut, no fancy zig zag stuff.

Google Street view:

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The ones near here get that treatment every few years and they've been in over 100 years.

 

[OJCar]

Every few years they hack the hell out of the trees down near my old house, they look awful, but a year or two later they’re back in full strength. As mentioned, it stops them getting too big. These were just straight cut, no fancy zig zag stuff.

Google Street view:

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Is that in Highfields?

 

[Kram]

That is pollarding, has its place mostly for street trees a d creating business. Not all tree varietys will take it well. "Stops them getting too big" is debatable, it forces them into maximum growth, becoming high maintence trees.

If you want a small street tree its better to choose a smaller variety and limit pruning to occasional reductions, in my opinion.

 

[KemppiFrog]

That is pollarding, has its place mostly for street trees a d creating business. Not all tree varietys will take it well. "Stops them getting too big" is debatable, it forces them into maximum growth, becoming high maintence trees.

If you want a small street tree its better to choose a smaller variety and limit pruning to occasional reductions, in m

Pollarding is standard practice on the trees in French squares. Seems to work OK in keeping them healthy and not to big.

 

[Morrisman]

Is that in Highfields?

No, John Amery Drive, Rising Brook.

 

[OJCar]

No, John Amery Drive, Rising Brook.

I stayed in Brooke Court on the Highfields when I was a student in the early 80s.
( Fortunately Brooke Court was demolished years ago (Good riddance !) )
Friends rented a place on Poplar Way.
We all later moved to New Garden Street and later Stone Road.

 

[Kram]

Pollarding is standard practice on the trees in French squares. Seems to work OK in keeping them healthy and not to big.

My point is, its not a one time job. You have to do it every few years. An occasional reduction will maintain a trees size and slow future growth and might be 10,20 or more years before it sees another butche

Its great business for whomever gets the council contract. I'm aware of one that was mistakenly? paying per pollard whether it needed it or not - every tree they could find, was done!

 

[JOEPRO]

Definitely an ecologist being well overpaid by the council came up with this nonsense to do that cut on every limb. It's bound to expose the tree more to rot and disease

 

[Norsk]

My point is, its not a one time job. You have to do it every few years. An occasional reduction will maintain a trees size and slow future growth and might be 10,20 or more years before it sees another butche

Its great business for whomever gets the council contract. I'm aware of one that was mistakenly? paying per pollard whether it needed it or not - every tree they could find, was done!

Pollarding is one of the most cost effective tree management techniques, as well as one of the oldest.

A pollard cycle typically is three to five times longer than a sympathetic crown reduction. It's one of the few effective solutions to urban tree management in cities with mature street trees which have been pollarded many times before.

This rubbish regarding 20% crown reduction every three years is far more of a scam than pollarding.

 

[Kram]

Yes once its been done, there is no option but to repeat it. There are many trees that have not been butchered or reduced that as yet, do not need intensive management.

Last year they pollarded a birch near me and I'll be watching with interest how well it recovers or rots out, as they do not like being cut hard.

 

[8ob]

Pollarding is one of the most cost effective tree management techniques, as well as one of the oldest.

A pollard cycle typically is three to five times longer than a sympathetic crown reduction. It's one of the few effective solutions to urban tree management in cities with mature street trees which have been pollarded many times before.

This rubbish regarding 20% crown reduction every three years is far more of a scam than pollarding.

It also makes it simple, pollard points are easy to follow and not open to interpretation like a crown reduction..

Bob

 

[Dilkris]

Definitely an ecologist being well overpaid by the council came up with this nonsense to do that cut on every limb. It's bound to expose the tree more to rot and disease

I'm on your team.

 

[Erie Fred]

Looks like a new productivity incentive program, they trim the trees standing on the sidewalk, whilst using a shoulder mounted RPG.....