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Warning: topping a tree does not kill it, and that old rhyme needs to go
I always heard the saying that a topped tree is a dead tree, and I repeated it to customers for a long time without checking. Then a client in Albany showed me a silver maple her dad cut back to stubs 22 feet up back in 1998, and that thing is still throwing out 6 feet of new growth every season. The catch is the regrowth comes out as weak attachments that snap in storms, which is the real problem, not death. So the tree survives, it just becomes a hazard factory, and we end up charging way more later to fix it. Anyone else seeing topped trees hang on way longer than the old saying claims?
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