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Guy at a job in Toledo kept calling topping 'reduction pruning' and I had to walk away
Last Tuesday I was on a silver maple removal in Toledo and this homeowner came out with a printout calling topping 'reduction pruning' and asked why we don't do it anymore. I told him topping cuts into the branch collar and leaves stubs that rot, plus it forces weak sprouts that snap in ice storms, and he still argued with me for 10 minutes. His neighbor's maple got butchered the same way 6 years ago and half the new shoots broke off in a storm two winters back, so I just pointed at it. Some folks will believe a blog post over the guy holding the saw, I guess. Anyone else get the 'but the tree came back bushier' line?
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the_mila5d ago
A 60 foot silver maple that gets topped puts out maybe 8 feet of growth in two years, and that weak wood is exactly what comes down on your truck in an ice storm. The neighbor's tree did not "come back", it just grew fast junk because the tree panicked, and now that thing is a hazard you will get called back to remove for free. Look at any ISA study on decay after topping, the stubs rot from the inside out and you lose the whole limb in 10 to 15 years no matter how bushy it looks. The blogger never climbed a tree in his life.
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