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[jomoco]

You need to qualify that statement or risk being unethical.

As long as you're truthful and tell the customer that topping their tree will require annual or bi-annual maintenance for the rest of it's life to be considered structurally safer as a result of topping.

Tell them that primary wood is considerably stronger than any secondary resprout wood is in no uncertain terms. But the key thing is that they know topping their tree without regular followup maintenance is a dangerous practice at best.

The truth being told upfront is the best means of ensuring no ethical lapses in your business transactions occur.

Just an opinion brother.

jomoco

 

[classictruckman]

I agree with that entirely, I don't think that topping is good in any situation, I would much rather remove and replant, but I also live in the real world.

To give an example on how bad peoples opinion of what a nice looking tree is when I suggest removal and replant I often get this answer: "Are you kidding? It took 20 years of your companies' trimming to get it to look this good."

 

[classictruckman]

One thing I have noticed about trees that have been topped regularly is that they don't have the energy for codit.

They spend so much on regrowing leaf surface that the primary wood is ignored and often hollow, so I am not so worried about the strength of the sprouts because they are goung to be hacked off anyway on the next trimmng cycle, its whether the whole tree is going to fall over.

 

[inztrees]

Get em Bull

 

[BostonBull]

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One thing I have noticed about trees that have been topped regularly is that they don't have the energy for codit.

They spend so much on regrowing leaf surface that the primary wood is ignored and often hollow, so I am not so worried about the strength of the sprouts because they are goung to be hacked off anyway on the next trimmng cycle, its whether the whole tree is going to fall over.

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And this makes it safer for a utilities system how?

This is my kind of my point on topping. Its not just a bad looking tree afterwards, but in many other unseen ways the tree is compromised. CODIT, stability, ability to fend off pests, etc etc

In extrememe rural areas these items dont matter much. In the suburban, urban areas we work these items are drastically different values.

This is why we have Tree Nazis in our parts, not to say we cant do something, but to protect the tree the best they can.

 

[dylanclimbs]

That's my kind of place...part of our job is to educate people on the importance of trees and proper arboriculture, so perhaps this is where I need to concentrate more energy. Hopefully I can help to makea change towards that educated, consertvationist attitude in my area.

 

[classictruckman]

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And this makes it safer for a utilities system how?

This is my kind of my point on topping. Its not just a bad looking tree afterwards, but in many other unseen ways the tree is compromised. CODIT, stability, ability to fend off pests, etc etc

In extrememe rural areas these items dont matter much. In the suburban, urban areas we work these items are drastically different values.

This is why we have Tree Nazis in our parts, not to say we cant do something, but to protect the tree the best they can.

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Any trees that I have topped(and nobody said it was good for the utility or the tree just for the utilities pocket book) have been in rural areas because of the uncle cletus syndrome.