Poplar topping

Oroboros said:
Alex. Excellent video work and climbing.

Topping is not considered a 'best practice'. Reducing canopy size is considered a better way to reduce risk. Or if the client wants a view, it may be best to just remove the whole tree and plant shrubs.

http://www.treesaregood.org/treecare/resources/WhyToppingHurts.pdf

This is a brochure put out by the ISA.
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I was assuming he did do a complete removal. Or maybe he left the spar standing par that's what the client could afford.
 
Given the work, it's good, given that he topped a bunch of trees, not good. I hate seeing it around here. It's butchery, and to say it saves money is BS, cost should never be a compromise for quality. It will just cost the HO more down the road likely, and they look so stupid.
 
Raven27 said:
Given the work, it's good, given that he topped a bunch of trees, not good. I hate seeing it around here. It's butchery, and to say it saves money is BS, cost should never be a compromise for quality. It will just cost the HO more down the road likely, and they look so stupid.
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No need to pile on or start calling names. We have cultural differences. And standards have been evolving here for years. We as a community need to recognize and respect these differences. Yet the reason we are here is to learn from each other.

Alex does great work and I am happy to see him here on Treebuzz.
 
Agreed. I guess it's frustration from here where guys come along and do this and sell it to the HO as a better alternative. Several jobs I've bid have gone to toppers and everyone of these trees are now dying off, bark peeling off, improper cuts of stubbs. They look terrible. I've debated going back to them and giving them the USA or other material on why it was a bad idea and then show them what's going wrong with their tree. Some probably think because the tree has a hundred new suckers on it and it was full of leaves last year, that it's fine, but you can't take a 70' maple down to 15' with no branches and think it will be all good ( 2 trees were done that way, another oak now looks like a candelabra.
 
Oroboros said:
Alex. Excellent video work and climbing.

Topping is not considered a 'best practice'. Reducing canopy size is considered a better way to reduce risk. Or if the client wants a view, it may be best to just remove the whole tree and plant shrubs.

http://www.treesaregood.org/treecare/resources/WhyToppingHurts.pdf

This is a brochure put out by the ISA.
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Thank you, for information. I will try to explain my motives in the next post.
And I am happy to be on this forum and have the opportunity to communicate with you. Bad words addressed to me an occasion to reflect on my actions.
 
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Raven27 said:
Given the work, it's good, given that he topped a bunch of trees, not good. I hate seeing it around here. It's butchery, and to say it saves money is BS, cost should never be a compromise for quality. It will just cost the HO more down the road likely, and they look so stupid.
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I will try to explain the situation and my motiv.
No doubt. The trees are beautiful. This work does not please me. I will tell you about these trees. Botany USSR recommended that this type of poplar planting throughout the city. Poplars grow rapidly, a huge amount of leaves allows to process a lot of carbon dioxide. But botanists did not take into account two factors.
1. This is a very brittle wood.
Spring wind broke large branches (not rotten).
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2. A tree spreads its seeds by means of fluff.
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Very quickly the seeds were scattered,
and poplar began to grow around the city.
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At the moment, we have a lot of children who are allrgic to feathers. There are cases of death.
Topping poplars allowed to protect people. Poplar has a singularity. he gives a strong spring shoots. Poplar grows and gives new foliage.
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Elm is also subject to pruning
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Currently, other methods are not used. I am always ready to learn, if you show the more correct methods that will work.
 
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Raven27 said:
Agreed. I guess it's frustration from here where guys come along and do this and sell it to the HO as a better alternative. Several jobs I've bid have gone to toppers and everyone of these trees are now dying off, bark peeling off, improper cuts of stubbs. They look terrible. I've debated going back to them and giving them the USA or other material on why it was a bad idea and then show them what's going wrong with their tree. Some probably think because the tree has a hundred new suckers on it and it was full of leaves last year, that it's fine, but you can't take a 70' maple down to 15' with no branches and think it will be all good ( 2 trees were done that way, another oak now looks like a candelabra.
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I like your idea. Although tread lightly when reproaching the client. They've been had. Now if you point out to them they're going to loose their tree .... they're soar and not gonna like it. But if you can approach them respectfully, apologize to them for their misfortune. Then you can give them a little education as to whats happening to their trees. All you can do is plant a seed. It' up to the client to help it grow.
Maybe, if they like you and they want their dying trees removed, you can offer to replant.
Good luck.
 
Are you ready to go down the rabbit hole, Alex?
You are going to get yourself an education here. Lots of information available in these threads.
Your journey has just begun.
 
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