Hi all. I've decided to top work my cogshall. Pretty tree but the fruit don't ripen well - jelly seed and soft nose. I'm making the cuts for e top work and would love some opinions on where to place them.
Tree before I started with some frost damage.
Bulk off so I can see the scaffolds
Some big cuts made leavin a nurse branch on the left
Had hoped to keep the y half of the biggest cut in this pic. But there was some dead wood - I took off half the y to get to healthy wood - so opinions - leave half the y or cut clean below it leaving a stub on the primary scaffold? Here's a close up