What is a sucker?

Arbor 101,

Since you asked...

First year pruning on the tree consisted of some deadwooding and very small (3/4" and smaller) cuts to train to horizontal growth. There was no central leader, and no changes to the existing structure were made.

It's a Radiant Crabapple. We use the ladders to snip the WATER SPROUTS (my bad, Guy!) on the outsides of the laterals. True pollarding (which is done annually)and topping are radically different procedures, and lead to radically different physiological responses. We are making 1/4 inch snips, annually. No visible decay in cross sections of the few branches that have broken.

Funny that you should raise the issue of money. We do 3 of these trees annually for 60 cents on the dollar for a little old lady.

I'm afraid your dogma is running loose all over your Karma. http://www.walkaboutventures.com/cardetailer.htm
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guy, i think your dead on, everyone should have a relationship with their trees and not everyone is going to have one like we all do. i would rather trim a tree to the homeowners liking before i remove it, im all about conservation, which also translates into" im going to be broke for the rest of my life". if i need to take off more than enough suckers so that a customer is satisfied enough to not remove the tree than i am willing to do so, but only at a point when i have exhausted every effort to persuade the home owners otherwise, those are the kind of jobs when you dont leave a sign, you might not be proud of how the job looks but you should be happy to have preserved that ugly son of a gun.

anyway, like i said before, guy, you nailed it brother, i probably should have just typed that
 
Thanks, Treebing. Actually, it's been over twenty years, if you count the two times I did it for a previous company. It's been very rewarding, and the others we do similarly, something the whole crew looks forward to every winter.
 
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