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windthrown · 13th February 2008, 10:35 PM

Yah, they call that pollarding around here. I had a house in California with a Sycamore that had been pollarded (stump pruned, butchered, etc) before I bought the place. It was in a tree city, and they would not give me a permit to cut it down. So it was always a pain in the arse to keep that thing pruned; it had a thousand skinny branches growing at 20 and 40 ft high. It took me 5 years to get good limbs and branches growing on that tree again.

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windthrown Semi-mature vigorous tree Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Pacific Northwest USA Posts: 127	Re: To TOP or Not to TOP Yah, they call that pollarding around here. I had a house in California with a Sycamore that had been pollarded (stump pruned, butchered, etc) before I bought the place. It was in a tree city, and they would not give me a permit to cut it down. So it was always a pain in the arse to keep that thing pruned; it had a thousand skinny branches growing at 20 and 40 ft high. It took me 5 years to get good limbs and branches growing on that tree again. __________________ So few saws, so many trees... Stihls: 210/250-/025/290/361/FS85 Echo: CS-3000, Olympyk & Mac doorstops