hunthawkdog
ArboristSite Operative
In my area topping trees homeowners refer to as cutting it back untill it looks like a butt naked butcherd log and is supposed to come back full and beautiful. I end up removing them people say i just had it topped lat year and allof a sudden it died.sometimes they make it a few years but continually lose lots of sticks and this time of year look wretched. I tell them I dont top but Ill trim it or correct it or if its close to a house Ill tell em plant a new tree get it started and well take this one down . alot of the older tree cutters around here do reularly and people think it just has to be done . I dont do it becuse it seems obtrusive and after i tell people I dont like it they tell me to do what ever I thnk and I usually get the job anyway . way off base or not what do you guys think