<I agree that it is more elegant that "drop crotching", but that's not a
term I use either, and since Dave is claiming copyright on that other
term, I think I'll stick to cutting off branches.>
Reduction/thinning and a combination of both surely doesn't belong to
any one person. Good luck to those businesses who try to sell this term.
I can't think of a better pruning method and it is a skill which other
well informed and skilled arborists should understand and undertake.
As with Ash some trees do not lend themselves to 'Drop Crotching',
'Reduction by Thinning', 'cutting back to inner crown side branches'
etc.... As far as I'm aware this type of reduction has been around for
many years, at least since the early 80's possibly prior to Alex Shigo's
introduction of 'target pruning'.
I recall once carrying out this type of reduction for a private client.
Although there were many branches on the ground, the tree, however
looked as though it had shrunk and IMHO was a great result. It turned
out that the Client was dissatisfied with the work and wanted to see
large white visible pruning wounds.
So some people may think they are being ripped off, not getting value
for money. Ironically, branch lopping to leave visible wounds is far
quicker and takes less skill.
It may pay the arborist to photograph the tree beforehand to use as
comparison after the pruning work has taken place. Armed with that, the
visible arisings (stacked branches, transit load of woodchip...) and
with a description / diagrammatic of the pruning technique to be
employed appropriate to tree species beforehand should hopefully educate
and appease and the client/others.
Ian
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