unnecessary removal soap box

[GoodYautja]

If you can get a more appropriate-for-the-site tree planted upon removal of whatever tree is up for discussion, however misguided the removal, do the arguments not become moot? plant trees.

~why manufacture, purchase, distribute and disperse literal poison? let's find another way, we, as a people are not imbeciles~

Although... if we soak the ground with poison and then drink water... if we spray our food with poison and then eat it... if we spray poison in the air and then breathe it... and expect everything to be A-OK... maybe we are.

Follow the money. Then follow your heart.

 

[guymayor]

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Back to the original post, i had a sales call where the HO wanted to remove her healthy beautiful silver maple because it was "too tall!". I could quickly tell there was no talking her out of it so I simply told her I wouldn't do it and walked away. ...

[/ QUOTE ]Why not make the tree shorter for the lady then? Silver maples gain stability by careful reduction.

It seems too godlike to me to determine what is 'appropriate for the place'. That sounds like a lame alibi for pushing removals, when you can have a lifetime of budgetable pruning work instead.

Considering the quality of most nursery stock, are trees really a renewable resource? Let's keep what we have.

 

[tomthetreeman]

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Considering the quality of most nursery stock, are trees really a renewable resource? Let's keep what we have.

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Great point.

 

[GoodYautja]

point made. so let's work on the nurseries, we will need them eventually.

 

[TreeLogic]

That's a good point Guy. But nobody wants a tree that will continually look like crap because of excessive reductions. We can have pruning work regardless of whether it's a declining old tree or a thriving new tree. Personally, I'd rather have something I looked forward to every growing season instead of something I questioned. Just my 2 cents. But nursery stock is ridiculous. Either they don't know anything about the trees they're selling or they're greasy used car salesmen...but for trees.

I feel sacrilegious saying this, but as arborists we have to play God with trees sometimes.

 

[guymayor]

It's up to the client to decide what looks like crap, but I agree that sometimes it's better to start over. However most trees imo are restorable with reasonable inputs and waiting times . So that's what I typically sell...

I've always wondered what "excessive reductions" means. Excessive is not a great word to have in a standard, so subjective, but there it is.

Yes structural pruning of baby trees is also pruning work, but the best kind for everyone is pruning some thriving old trees, that neither client nor arborist was ready to give up on.