 Re: Why Topping?
The truth I'm afraid like so much in our world is lazyness...now I'm not writing about Utility companies that cut trees and other vegetation to protect their asset, and ours the supply lines....(although I am constantly frustrated by the impotence of local authorities to educate the public and manage these trees in relation to power properly..ie remove and replace innappropriate species and properly prune the others)
In Oz we generally call topping-lopping its the same thing....why do hacks do it? Well simply because its quick and easy, no big timber to work and process, no time taken trying to undertake target pruning or judge dose (not that any of them even understand what dose is)
Why do tree owners want this damage done to their trees? I think the vast majority of tree owners have no concept of tree biology, they just view trees as big versions of their little shrubs and bushes...so anything goes..again education is the answer but so long as LGA's and big corporate bodies continue to endorse lopping and topping that brick wall is long high and thick.
Its not all bad news very slowly and with numerous backward stepd things are changing, OH&S is beginning to erode the falsehood that anything goes, standards are steadily making inrodes into the realm of tree work even here in NQ.
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We fell them down and turn them into paper,
That we may record our emptiness.
- Kahlil Gibran
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