posted 7 years ago
Not puposefully, but in clearing brush with loppers I’ve often topped small trees, intending to return with a larger tool. Young trees, anyway, thrive under this treatment. I have a truce with the older trees on my property; we wage war in the airspace below nine feet in altitude so that I can walk without being shredded, and they can live unmolested in the volume above that. The initial battles (where I fight those long spiked horizontal limbs back to the trunks) are never bloodless!
If you live with these trees, titanium insoles are a great thing to have.