How many seasons has the tree been doing this? Does the whole tree lose it's leaves early or just parts? Sounds more like drought or heat stress, could also be verticillium wilt.
If tree work was a register trade like plumbing and electrical then maybe their would be a standard rate for climbers. I don't think tree co.s would be charging the price they do if they had to pay climbers top wages. If climbers were payed better than the business wouldn't be flooded with...
Be nice to fast forward a couple of years to see the conclusion. Don't mean to dumb up your thread treesseer just trying to learn something. I mean I get the whole jst of pruning back to latent buds and all but won't the tree respond and push that growth right back to where it was in a few...
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It's about the physics of leverage and hopefully the biological response of lower placed growth in the future.
Like I said wishful thinking. So where's the growth going to come from the trunk?
I think the idea is that the reduction will concentrate more growth at the open wound stabilizing the tree wishfully thinking, that's my take. Poplar always seems surprises me at how well it responds to top jobs.
I'm looking at a Dingo 420 skinny trx with 1300 hours and a blown head gasket, guy is asking $5500. What something like this worth in it's condition. It has a 20hp kohler engine btw. Thanks
One notch in the right direction with all that rigging would of done the same thing and been a hell of a lot safer. I give an "A" for effort and an "E" for theory.