Seriously we get pretty beat up just like the trees. My dad was a master timber framer/sawyer and logsmith (log home builder/live edge timber framer). He taught me to have an appreciation for many different approaches. Japanese jointery, Norwegian/Swedish log houses, Italian baita, Korean temples, Hawaiian hale... The same goes for working with living wood/trees! The pollard if done in proven species is fascinating. If that ain't enough try coppicing. I have done it to more than a couple of alder trees.
What I personally find most frustrating is living in suburban PNW with the indigenous Douglas Firs, Hemlock, and Cedars that nearly everyone says can't be topped. I firmly believe that if so much deferred maintenance didn't go on here I wouldn't be removing so many trees. I just bought a new phone. With a working camera. So pictures will be forthcoming. I just removed a codominant DF that had one side reaching 85' and was only 30yrs old. The growth rings were fat. The tree was ugly, poorly maintained (somebody limbed it up to lift the skirt off the roof of the old 2 story farm house probably back in '07 when the houses inflated value would have warranted "tree work/maintenance"). I hate to see people waste resources and turn everything in a removal into chip or firewood but this wood was true junk. Each half of the codominant was 28"dia. I got to do cool pruning and heading back in Hawaii not here, yet. Just another rant 🤪
