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Is this a tree or a stump?

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(@fobos8)
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Hi guys

I just surveyed this piece of land for an Architect who's asked for details on all the significant trees on site.

Are the two features in the attached image trees or stumps? You can see from top to bottom that they're approximately 3.3metres tall (11 foot).

There are no branches with foliage on.

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Kind regards, Andrew

tall tree stumps
 
Posted : 12/06/2021 11:48 pm
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Could these be trees that have been recently pollarded?

 
Posted : 13/06/2021 12:43 am
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They are most likely trees that have recently been trimmed that way.?ÿ Henceforth I will be using the term, pollarded, thanks Bill C.

 
Posted : 13/06/2021 2:06 am
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Good call Bill C, also looks like trees that have been trimmed in anticipation of an above Cat3 hurricane. ?????ÿ

 
Posted : 13/06/2021 4:23 am
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@bill-c?ÿ

Old dog learned a new-to-me term today. Thanks. BTW, out in the hinderland (the term the Co. Appraiser uses for our rural areas), we collect multipointed pollarded antlers from whitetails.

 
Posted : 13/06/2021 5:24 am
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I, too, learned a new word today.?ÿ Was disappointed to find there was no connection to Michael J. Pollard

I would refer to this mess as a tree.?ÿ A true stump does not have limbs.?ÿ From a construction perspective, the main concern is whether to leave them as is or to incur the expense to remove them.

 
Posted : 13/06/2021 7:21 am
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@holy-cow Or deal with tree ordinances in the planning and permitting processes.

 
Posted : 13/06/2021 7:31 am
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Aarrgghh.?ÿ This is why I work in the boondocks.?ÿ Very little contact with the bureaucratic BS intended to tell everyone how to do what three people have decided will be best.

 
Posted : 13/06/2021 7:35 am
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Posted by: @john-putnam

planning and permitting processes.

Fee simple used to mean you could plant and cut trees on the property as you alone saw fit.

 
Posted : 13/06/2021 7:51 am
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@bill93?ÿ

It still does in most of my world.?ÿ I do my best to avoid that minority area.

My first real experience with that came when I purchased a couple of old houses in a city with a codes enforcement officer with an overactive "f** dem bastids" attitude.?ÿ A little guy with a power complex.

Sold them both rather than call him out into the street and give him some Old West treatment.

 
Posted : 13/06/2021 8:04 am
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That's why I like working for big timber companies. I can chop down a big tree that is in my way and nobody cares. In town I've got to be really careful where I turn the machete loose.

 
Posted : 13/06/2021 8:10 am
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Many thanks Bill C for putting me straight, have just labelled them "Pollarded tree" on my topo and feeling very smart!

 
Posted : 13/06/2021 9:24 am
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Posted : 13/06/2021 12:11 pm
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