Topping

Topping is the pruning of tree tops for the purpose of forestry maintenance of a tree population .

The method is mainly used at the edge of the stand to reduce the risk of wind throws or other storm damage . The treetops are usually shortened outwards by two thirds and inwards by a third. This results in a clearly sloping stand edge, which now offers the wind a significantly smaller impact surface. This increases the stability of the affected trunks as well as the stagnant stocks behind them.

The topping of the top is very complex and is therefore rarely practiced.

Individual evidence

↑ Reinhold Erlbeck, Ilse Haseder , Gerhard KF Stinglwagner : The great cosmos of forest and forest lexicon . DVD-ROM edition. United Soft Media Verlag, Munich, and Franckh-Kosmos, Stuttgart 2006, ISBN 978-3-8032-1770-7 .

[1] Reinhold Erlbeck, Ilse Haseder , Gerhard KF Stinglwagner : The great cosmos of forest and forest lexicon . DVD-ROM edition. United Soft Media Verlag, Munich, and Franckh-Kosmos, Stuttgart 2006, ISBN 978-3-8032-1770-7 .