What happened, a storm passed by with speeds up to 55m/s. Nearly 70 million m3 of forest came down and ofcourse a lot of privatly owned trees. We perform jobs for insurancecompanies.This place we came to after 4 days, the roads were blocked. The trees were removed, temperature was about -10 Celsius and the fence was fixed again. The fence was fixed a week earlier due to a drunk driver that came through. Something that amazes me every time is the amount of damage caused by trees. Just a few tiles some woodwork and that's it.
About pollarding trees, I do not perform this on trees where it never has been done in the past. Neither do I cut of the head of a child because he/she is getting to big. Pollards where made to serve as trees where the farmer could get food for the wintertime for his animals. Doing this to trees where the owner says, "the tree is getting to big" or something like "so many leaves every autumn to take away", bad luck he has to find somebody else to do that job. What we can do is take the whole tree away, or see if we can replant. But I think this about pollards can be a new thread with many interesting suggestions. |