It's odd that we have such fine-grained words for this practice, but this is coppicing, not pollarding. Coppicing is done near ground level, pollarding higher u

It's odd that we have such fine-grained words for this practice, but this is coppicing, not pollarding. Coppicing is done near ground level, pollarding higher up the trunk of the tree. A testament to how important agroforestry was to the English people, I suppose.