Gardening

Some do it it naturally like soft maples, ash (those on my property that have been hit by EAB), and black cherry. Lots of these growing from stumps on my derelict farm woods.

I have many black locust on my property. Also a very weedy tree. In researching it, I learned that it is a species favored in Europe for hop and vineyard poles. Pollarded black locust grow especially straight and tall for these purposes. We are planning to remove the small locust groves encroaching everywhere, but intend to save a field for pollarding them and producing poles and fence posts for sale in the future.

Edited to add that pollarding black locust requires cutting it about 1-2 feet from the ground, it will then put up 3-5 new trunks from the old one.

I wasn't aware that doing a severe pruning of the crown was called pollarding.