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Originally Posted by Zeke
Looks like 2 trunks or 2 trees. One looks worse. Why not just get rid of that? Just cut it down and cut it up and leave the thing to fertilize the other.
Gently thinning the remaining one would seem to be the answer but it will grow back — same problem, different day. I'd whack 'em both if the view is the total objective.
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Reasonable observations. As a student in college I worked summers for a tree service company, and we did a lot of this type of 'topping' in order to clear views. It was brutal work climbing tall trees just to snip a bit off of the top, hence the price.
Anyway, the OP could buy a nice chainsaw, cut the tree down and be done with it. This way he'd have a brand new chainsaw for future work - at a fraction of the cost of having the tree's top trimmed one time.