Re-pollarding old beeches at a graveyard

[Peter_bomen]

In the old graveyard of Roermond, The Netherlands, are these 4 old pollard beeches that haven't been pollarded in quite a long time. The city had a report made by a European Tree technician, and the advice was to bring the trees back into pollarding cycle in 3 Phases.

This is the first phase, where we reduce the biggest poles for about 50%. In the following years they have to be monitored very well on how they react to the pruning. If they react well, we can continue to phase 2 in a few years.

 

[Serf Life]

Lot of breakables in the drop zone!

 

[Peter_bomen]

Lot of breakables in the drop zone!

Yes! and very expensive breakables!!

 

[Stumpsprouts]

A thousand snap cuts!! That’s an impressive display of the skill, but why not rig some pieces?

 

[Mick Dempsey!]

A thousand snap cuts!! That’s an impressive display of the skill, but why not rig some pieces?

Snap cuts are a pet hate of mine.
You can do too little and you have to do more, or too much and you risk the piece falling off.
Hold the top of the thing and power the saw out the back In one go.

 

[Peter_bomen]

A thousand snap cuts!! That’s an impressive display of the skill, but why not rig some pieces?

There was not enough space for rigging.. and all the lowest branches had to stay for now (they go in the next phases), which makes it difficult to rig bigger pieces through that. And the lowest reaction shoots around the original pollard are very precious

We considered it, but decided on going this route.

 

[Peter_bomen]

Snap cuts are a pet hate of mine.
You can do too little and you have to do more, or too much and you risk the piece falling off.
Hold the top of the thing and power the saw out the back In one go.

I find it depends a lot on the species. Beech is really predictable with snap cuts