 Re: What do you think of this pruning?
We need to come up with some new descriptive terms for this kind of mutilation.
In a way, it's almost too bad that trees don't react more dramatically (quickly) to this kind of nonsense.
I personally love the ring porous trees in that when a contractor trenches and cuts off half the roots here in Central Texas on a hot summer day, that half of the tree can wilt and die by nightfall. It teaches folks that trees can and do react to poor work around their root systems and usually results in a large settlement - a lesson not soon forgotten as trees "teach" one contractor at a time.
The trouble with this kind of pruning is that the limbs will still likely flush out, rot and decay will set in, and the new adventitious sprouts will be subject to falling from the tree in the future. By then, the culprit will be long gone.
If you could catch people in the act and photograph them, you could be an expert witness in the future when the limbs fail and hurt something or somebody. |