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5 Reasons to Stop Topping Your Trees
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Stop, Drop, Don’t Top
“Topping” a tree refers to the most harmful tree pruning practice known. For over 25 years, literature, seminars, videos, webinars and more have warned against this damaging and outdated practice, though it is still commonly used among the uneducated.
Topping of trees, also known as lopping, hat-racking, tipping, and rounding over, is the drastic removal of tree branches to stubs or to lateral branches that are not large enough to assume the role of the main support system of the tree.
In most cases, topping is used to reduce the size of a tree, and many homeowners take on this work themselves. Not only is tree work for an untrained person a safety risk, topping is not an appropriate method for reducing height and causes long-term damage to the tree. Topping should not be confused with proper pruning of a tree. A topped tree is easy to spot: The natural shape of the tree has been destroyed, leaving stubs of branches with no leaves. With proper pruning, it may look as if no work has been done at all. A certified arborist carefully selects and removes branches that beautifully maintain the natural shape of the tree.
5 Reasons to Not Top a Tree:
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