Tree lopping is an outdated concept, since over a decade now.
All home-owners should be looking to call a qualified arborist company, with a suitable insurance cover to get their tree services done.
What happens when you lopp a tree?
Lopping is the indiscriminate cutting of tree branches to stubs or lateral branches that are not
large enough to assume the terminal (main growth point) role. In common terms, cut the tree trunk for it, not to grow taller. That means you have opened up a wound at a wrong place, activating the tree's survival mechanism, which now will put all its energy into healing itself there.
As a result, the tree will grow back almost twice as fast, but only this time, its branches are not that strong, because your local tree lopper has cut the main trunk (read more about ‘epicormic’ shoots). These branches in time will become unstable and cause more risk of injury to life or property.
What your friendly neighbourhood tree-lopper is not telling you is, while giving you a cheaper price , that this tree will now have to be lopped again and again adding to your cost of maintenance. Also, an open wound has increased the chances of the tree getting infected as decay will travel down stem and cause bigger issues in times to come, as the tree gradually decays within.
Call Now at 0419678910 for a qualified arborist team from GTS at Northern Perth, Western Australia.
