I have two loquats a Mexican bird of paradise and a arroyo sweetwood that are going through tree training.
Going for the big lollipop look with the loquats with one trunk coming out of the ground.
These things continually keep me pruning suckers.
I bend and prune the young branches to where I want them to grow.
As far as a tree surgeon/arborist, I haven't seen one in years.
What we have are young guys from south of the border that come in and butcher trees.
A friend of mines neighbor had some huge pecan trees pruned.
They literally cut every limb back to a stump like the pictures you see in this thread.
A person would have to know what to do with a tree be home when they showed up and point at everything they wanted cut.
If you couldn't do the work yourself and called someone to prune your crape myrtle I can guarantee you they would murder the thing.
I have seen it too may times.
Worth