Video Transcript
Hi, I’m Neil from Beechwood Tree Care, and today we’ve shut a road so that we can safely reduce an oak tree. So another day out on site, another road closure. We’ve closed off down the end there, closed off that way. We have this tree here, this oak tree to reduce. We’re going to reduce back the canopy over the roadside.
We haven’t inspected this one. A consultants looked at this tree and determined that there’s a high likelihood of failure, so that reduction has been specified by them. We’re going to use our cherry picker. Just to get up there. And because it’s a really busy road and it overhangs both lanes, we’ve got them both shut just to make it safe.
So I’ve just got to the point where I’ve reduced everything, from the cherry picker, that I can on this side. And you can see we’ve still got a tree looking like a tree, but we’ve done a significant reduction on it. It’s perfectly possible to prune a tree and leave it looking like a tree whilst taking a lot of leverage out.
So down the side here, you can see all the branches. I just stacked them out the way because they’re going to move the cherry picker backwards. Probably should have started at that end in fairness. But you can see that these branches here are leaning in the verge. They’re a good two and a half, three meters long, and some quite sizable chunks.
You can see how much we’ve taken out and that’s reduced the crown back, roughly in line with the middle of the road. And I think the reason that we’re doing this, and I don’t honestly know because a consultant has surveyed this, is that there’s obviously been a branch failure there. So there’ll be a bit of a decay in the main stem.
And that union between the smaller, the subdominant stem isn’t that great. And I suspect what they’re worried about is decaying there, undermining that union as well, not being great on this side of the tree and failing into the busy road. So now I need to come around to this side here and prune on that subdominant stem.
Just reduce that crown back through there. So this is from the other side. I’ve now pruned those pieces. There you can’t see so well with the light, but if you look at Finn here, Finn is a good six foot tall. These are the size of pieces we’re taking off. But what you end up with is a tree that looks like a tree, but with a significant amount of leverage removed.
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