I call this hat racking, they look like shit. It's way easier, better looking, and slower growing to do crown reduction or even drop crotch trees to keep the height down and it makes little sense to remove a canopy of a privacy screen. There is a time and place for pollarding, mainly for fruit production. Comparing your yard care services to power line clearance is not going to help you sell work, that's like a chef comparing his filet minion to McDonalds🤣 Not hating or saying that you are harming the tree, just pointing out that there are superior methods to achieving the same goal and there is a reason for the criticism. Become a master of your craft.
I was asked to do this by the customer. She didn’t know how big the trees were going to grow when she planted them. I’m only doing this to keep it at a desired height, that’s why I did it to a privacy screen. I’m not a tree guy, I do yards. I only did this cause I was asked, I’m not sure about the other methods you brought up, Thanks for the info though.
@@ArrowoodYardCare I get that too and sometimes you can present an even better solution for a customers problem than what they come up with on their own by being the expert they need. You are obviously doing trees though and there is way more money in tree pruning, small removals, and planting than weed whacking so it would be wise to advance your skills in that department and becoming knowledgeable rather than taking the defense and doubling down since others have obviously already told you that it's frowned upon. In my world money does indeed grow on trees and there is much more satisfaction in high end pruning as well.
Trust me, crown reduction will be found to be absolute hogwash. It's just topping a tree lightly. Doesn't make sense. The concept of crown reduction hasn't been around long enough to be proven as a viable size control method. You can do it once, but after that it gets pretty weird. Pollarding has been around for centuries and is definitely a viable way to keep trees shorter.
I call this hat racking, they look like shit. It's way easier, better looking, and slower growing to do crown reduction or even drop crotch trees to keep the height down and it makes little sense to remove a canopy of a privacy screen. There is a time and place for pollarding, mainly for fruit production. Comparing your yard care services to power line clearance is not going to help you sell work, that's like a chef comparing his filet minion to McDonalds🤣 Not hating or saying that you are harming the tree, just pointing out that there are superior methods to achieving the same goal and there is a reason for the criticism. Become a master of your craft.
I was asked to do this by the customer. She didn’t know how big the trees were going to grow when she planted them. I’m only doing this to keep it at a desired height, that’s why I did it to a privacy screen. I’m not a tree guy, I do yards. I only did this cause I was asked, I’m not sure about the other methods you brought up, Thanks for the info though.
@@ArrowoodYardCare I get that too and sometimes you can present an even better solution for a customers problem than what they come up with on their own by being the expert they need. You are obviously doing trees though and there is way more money in tree pruning, small removals, and planting than weed whacking so it would be wise to advance your skills in that department and becoming knowledgeable rather than taking the defense and doubling down since others have obviously already told you that it's frowned upon. In my world money does indeed grow on trees and there is much more satisfaction in high end pruning as well.
Trust me, crown reduction will be found to be absolute hogwash. It's just topping a tree lightly. Doesn't make sense. The concept of crown reduction hasn't been around long enough to be proven as a viable size control method. You can do it once, but after that it gets pretty weird. Pollarding has been around for centuries and is definitely a viable way to keep trees shorter.