ATH
Been here much more than a while
- Location
- Findlay, Ohio
First a bit of backstory...(skip to pics if you'd rather)
Last year, the city snow plow crews went around and cut branches back from the road they found problematic while plowing. Certainly necessary work. They topped a lot of branches. I ended up talking with the street department supervisor, the guy who is in the street department to whom all tree questions are directed, and a tree commission member (and friend) to discuss how that could be done better. I offered to take a few hours and do a pruning training. Basically, was going to talk about how to make property cuts at branch collars. The branches they topped could have been removed and everything would have been better off (as you all already know...). They said sounds great. Never called back to schedule.
Last week leaving church after Christmas eve service, I see a young tree in front of our building has been topped. I called street department and said "I see the tree in front of our building along Main Street was mutilated...what's done is done, I just want to make sure nobody touches the trees on the other road (corner lot), we'll take care of those." Lady answering phone blamed it on electric company. I said "no...there aren't overhead lines and the same thing happened to all the trees on main." She said they don't prune trees, but will pass it along. A bit later supervisor calls me back and says they didn't do it...he thinks the owner of the apartments across the street did (they topped their own tree in the summer, now it is all the trees along Main, so I know it wasn't them).
My tree commissioner friend isn't one to give up easily. He went to several downtown businesses. They all said they saw city trucks doing it. He has another conversation with supervisor. "Well, our guy did a tree by such-and-such restaurant". I looked at that tree...yeah, whoever did that did them all. Commissioner talks to supervisor again...he admits they did them all.
I don't have a pic before anything was done. Before pic is what it looked like when I showed up. After is what it looks like after we pruned it. I know it is not a model of young tree pruning...that was ruined before I got to it. I'm just curious to hear your thoughts.
Before:
and After
Also took couple pics up into the canopy. It needed pruned years ago...
(we've only been in the building for a year, so I'm only taking a small part of the blame for that - its been on the to do list!)
Here is what i did up there (the branch on the left is not taller than the "leader"....just a bad angle.
Fire away!
Thanks.
Last year, the city snow plow crews went around and cut branches back from the road they found problematic while plowing. Certainly necessary work. They topped a lot of branches. I ended up talking with the street department supervisor, the guy who is in the street department to whom all tree questions are directed, and a tree commission member (and friend) to discuss how that could be done better. I offered to take a few hours and do a pruning training. Basically, was going to talk about how to make property cuts at branch collars. The branches they topped could have been removed and everything would have been better off (as you all already know...). They said sounds great. Never called back to schedule.
Last week leaving church after Christmas eve service, I see a young tree in front of our building has been topped. I called street department and said "I see the tree in front of our building along Main Street was mutilated...what's done is done, I just want to make sure nobody touches the trees on the other road (corner lot), we'll take care of those." Lady answering phone blamed it on electric company. I said "no...there aren't overhead lines and the same thing happened to all the trees on main." She said they don't prune trees, but will pass it along. A bit later supervisor calls me back and says they didn't do it...he thinks the owner of the apartments across the street did (they topped their own tree in the summer, now it is all the trees along Main, so I know it wasn't them).
My tree commissioner friend isn't one to give up easily. He went to several downtown businesses. They all said they saw city trucks doing it. He has another conversation with supervisor. "Well, our guy did a tree by such-and-such restaurant". I looked at that tree...yeah, whoever did that did them all. Commissioner talks to supervisor again...he admits they did them all.
I don't have a pic before anything was done. Before pic is what it looked like when I showed up. After is what it looks like after we pruned it. I know it is not a model of young tree pruning...that was ruined before I got to it. I'm just curious to hear your thoughts.
Before:
and After
Also took couple pics up into the canopy. It needed pruned years ago...
(we've only been in the building for a year, so I'm only taking a small part of the blame for that - its been on the to do list!)
Here is what i did up there (the branch on the left is not taller than the "leader"....just a bad angle.
Fire away!
Thanks.
