Dude makes tree look like his haircut

the sound of that saw was so cool with all the echo/amplification.

I would say that is Bernd Strasser (sp?), one of the all time best...true?
 
They love that in the UK!


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At the start of the video it says: Vor lind beskärs. So the video is from Sweden.
In scandinavia pollarding has been the traditional way of pruning Basswood ( tilia platyphyllus) since forever.
To my eye the only thing wrong in the video ( apart from the guys hair!!) is the fact that they have allowed too much regrowth before repruning. It should be done about every 3 years.
Over time the cut ends grow thick and bulb-like and after each pruning they immediately get covered with suckers.

In southern Europe they use the same tecnique on sycamore ( Platanus acerifolia).

Please enlighten me, what is so bad about that?
 
Interesting. The practice follows the same method used on the pollarded sycamores in Golden Gate Park. Except they do it annually. The knobs on those branch ends are nearly two feet in diameter. And they been doing like that, every year, for 75 years. The end product in the video didn't appear quite the same.
 
I've heard that the company - Tradmaster or whatever the hell they're called carries out poor quality treework, with shockingly bad safety, pays its staff very poorly and expects a climber to climb and dismantle three 70ft spruce trees in the dark and snow in 30 minutes. They hire in UK guys who have been trained to a high standard all for it to be shot to sh*t as soon as they start working for tradmaster. Dats wot I heard.
 
I think pollarding should be done more often but this isn't proper pollarding it's plain old hackery. That's going to be a nightmare for someone else to deal with in a few years.
 
Pollarding has more meanings than one. First it's very geographical how it's understood, used and applied in different locals. In the broad and general sense of the term, pollarding is heavy cutting on the tree. A major reduction.

And depending who inteperts how it's done can vary the outcome,, quite a bit.
 
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Gerry, the reason for doing it annually in S.F. is probably that the regrowth is much heavier on the west coast than in cold Scandinavia. After all, we haven't had redwoods or anything like it around here for a few (quite a few) million years.
When you pollard a tree, it takes a keen eye and a good sense of aesthetics and proportions to do the first cutting. After all, that is going to shape the tree for the rest of its life, you can't really change it later on.
I'll readily agree, that whicever swede did the tree in the video for the first time, could have done better, but we can't blame mr. dreadlocks for that. If you watch again,while thinking pollarding instead of topping, you'll see that he only cuts away new growth.
Last year my crew did a whole bunch of sycamores that had been left unpruned for 6-7 years. They looked awful, but as we cut away the big (and I mean big) suckers, it turned out that the guy doing the original work on the trees, had been really good. So we ended up with a nice result.
The big problem about pollarding comes when people let it slide and forget to keep up with pruning. Then you end up with ( especielly with basswood) huge suckers, that make new tops with very bad attachment points and eventually break off in an icestorm or sometime just for no apparent reason at all.
 
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Is basswood - Lime/Linden/Tilia in Denmark?

Never heard it called basswood before.
 
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Is basswood - Lime/Linden/Tilia in Denmark?

Never heard it called basswood before.

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Before I posted, I looked tilia up in my "Golden Guide to trees of north america", just to be sure.
They call it basswood, so I figured that to be the proper american name.
What do I know? I'm just a dane, english is not my native tongue.
 
Th eproblem with regular pollarding is that you have to get the owner to pay for it. If they won't pay for often then you get what is shown in this video.

Or maybe this is early on in the pollarding process for this tree and over the years it will get better.

Maybe he has left a mess for someone else to sort out, but that is for the owner and the tree service company to decide on what happens next.

I think it is wrong to criticise the climber. He probably got handed the job an hour or two earlier. Its not his decision what to do (unless he's the boss and I don't think that is the case) so he does his job. Maybe he's ambarassed about this job, he did not post the video, its posted without permission for sure.

THere are good arborist all over the world working for bad companies. I used to work for one of the biggest but I was just bad then also!!
 
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