topping trees

[Redtree]

Check out the one I posted on nature vs civilization Thread. How does that fit the tarp theory? No offence just curious. John_KAYS or anyone?
Or any other comment? I ask because it is a 'close to the threshold' kind of tree.


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[John_KAYS]

Check out the one I posted on nature vs civilization Thread. How does that fit the tarp theory? No offence just curious. John_KAYS or anyone?
Or any other comment? I ask because it is a 'close to the threshold' kind of tree.


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Well that tree looks like a roof that has had many tarps on it in the past and then someone tried shingling over it where the tarps weren't holding up.

I have no problem with reduction cuts, I just think a tree can be reduced in a way that makes the tree smaller and still natural. If you reduce the moment on a branch it significanly improves the structure. Even just a little off the end brought back to a lateral that can take on the role of the outer canopy. You don't want to starve the tree and more specifically the branch you are reducing.

What I see in the picture in the nature vs civilization thread is a tree that has been topped a few times before, and you are doing restoration or corrective pruning on the tree to help it handle its fragile state. I think reducing is key when working crown restoration especially with previously topped trees. The horrible tapper and long multiple shoots of the topped tree growth is relying on corrective pruning and frequent follow ups. I think in the case with topped trees you are dealing with circumstances that are less than ideal. We do what we must to aid in the health of a tree that is struggling and weak. I just believe most trees would have been better off left alone than topped that first time. It just creates more problems...many more problems.

 

[Leroy]

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