To prune or remove ?

fatkoala

Went out to quote on a lower branch removal of a Red Gum ( Euc camaldulensis) today . The branch was a fairly large one for a fairly young tree approx 20-30 years old. The tree was in excellent health as it has been constantly watered due to it being close to wine grapes (the reason for removal of limb) I reasoned that this removal would be ok in other words the tree would handle it based on my experience, until the owner told me there had been a trench cut close to the tree (where exactly she didn't know ) about 5 years ago and it had cut large roots . I know that lower limbs (all limbs for that matter) provide excellent suppression/ shock absorbson in adverse weather ?
My question is will the removal of this limb cause the tree to become unaceptably unstable (ie top heavy) ?

any comments would be gladly recieved
cheers
Fatkoala

playfordtree

Give us some photos please mate.

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treeseer

If it can be reduced and still farm enough sunshine to live that is preferable.

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fatkoala

Will try to get some photos today, I am erring on the side of pruning as the only real target if the tree fails is vines, they are mechanically harvested so the time a human spends under the tree is minimal
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J.T.

Well there is your answer if there is little or no potential to hit a target there is little or no hazard posed by the potential failure of the tree, cut off the limb and let the tree stay standing.