Printed from: https://conservationhandbooks.com/woodlands/felling-clearing-and-extraction/pollarding/
Pollarding of wood-pasture, farm, waterside and woodbank trees should be started when the trees are fairly young, before major branches have grown thick and heavy. It is repeated at five- to twenty-year intervals, in the same way as coppicing, depending on the size of poles required. Such trees can reach immense age and girth, and...