Before & After Tree Care

[SouthSoundTree-]

Pruned some japanese maples, and some topped mess, some fruit trees, and doug-firs.

View community...mess. Working on end weight reduction and vertical reduction. And it's close to the house, and primaries, so there that. Second year working on it. Maybe wing bark elm??

Bringing a home orchard back from neglect, this is the second year I've worked on it.

View from side of house, and from rear deck

 

[CurSedVoyce]

I love how the Japanese maple came out
I am more aggressive with fruit trees
Nice job on the Dougiies too

 

[SouthSoundTree-]

I have done 5 of the 9 fruit trees. I'll do the other 4 while Will chips on Tuesday. They are coming into shape, after neglect/ topping.

 

[treebilly]

You sir have a gift. Ornamental prunes are on my "need to improve on" list.

 

[SouthSoundTree-]

Thank you.

My basic approach starts with anything that has to go (too low for maintenance/ eye poking), cut your access in.
Find the dead wood, it goes.
Clearance for buildings/ walkways.
Fruit trees, most of the suckers go (especially the more the tree has been annually maintained, otherwise its sorta leave 1/3, reduce 1/3, remove 1/3).

Step back and look. Observe overall shape now. Crossing branches, crowded areas. Lots of neglected japanese maples have very, very leggy limbs supporting few leaves (poor shoot:leaf ratio, to coin a term. Also plays into root:shoot).

A lot of the framework on nice maples is already there, just a matter of 'clean-up' the build-up.

I would like to learn more about ornamental pruning. Way easier on the body, and not much risk of falling or a bad chainsaw cut. I need to read up.

I have a double-stem arbor vitae that is almost up to the primary. Next time Asplundh clears the lines, I think about trying to spiral prune them, after some research. Maybe way too late to progressively spiral them. Maybe cloud prune them. I've seen some nice "cloud" pruning around.

Wrong trees, but maybe something like this (part way down page) http://www.ethicallifestore.com/2013_06_01_archive.html
http://www.ethicallifestore.com/2013_06_01_archive.html

 

[Tucker943]

Ornamental pruning is great. Easy work, good money of bid right, low wear and tear on equipment, and very very little liability. Plus the results can be so pleasing to the customer since they can see up close what you've done.

 

[SouthSoundTree-]

I ran into a local certified arborist today. Tundra, wood box, orchard ladder, 200t, BC 600. No removals. No crew headaches most days. Been here ac good while. Heard his name a while back somehow.

Said foot locking before it was known to beat up your body, beat up his ankles.




More fruit trees tomorrow, Japanese maple prune, and a birch reduction.


Did an old apple removal and other pruning at a home today. Glad I planned for groundie- requisite work to be finished today. Will called off sick tomorrow.

 

[802climber]

Apple tree, first installment of restoration pruning.

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[CurSedVoyce]

That really needed doing!

 

[rskybiz]

 

[Maximalist]

 

[MasterBlaster]

Derp?

 

[gf beranek]

silver leaf?

 

[Underwor]

My guess is European White Poplar, (Silver leaf, silver maple, etc. ) Populus alba.

 

[stig]

You are right.
P. Alba it is.

 

[FJR]

Populus alba goes by Silver Poplar here and can become invasive. They look pretty neat when their leaves are blowing with the silver side flapping around.

 

[Maximalist]

You are right.
P. Alba it is.

Stig, you're right - it poplar Alba. We have these poplar trees are the highest. Reach a height up to 40 meters.

 

[treelooker]

They called me to get them some bids on removal. 4 hours later it's a lasting asset. Pics here

http://www.historictreecare.com/armillaria-scavenging-quercus-regenerating/

I would sooner starve than bid to remove trees like this. 'After' pic to follow; i kinda followed the red lines.

 

[bonner1040]

Pruned some japanese maples, and some topped mess, some fruit trees, and doug-firs.

View community...mess. Working on end weight reduction and vertical reduction. And it's close to the house, and primaries, so there that. Second year working on it. Maybe wing bark elm??

Bringing a home orchard back from neglect, this is the second year I've worked on it.

View from side of house, and from rear deck

Have I ever said I love this thread.... This is the thread you show customers if there ever was one.

 

[cory]

Guy (Treelooker), that was a cool post and you have a cool website, sounds like you do great work. Regarding the oak in the pictures, I was wondering how you could do a mere 2 hours of pruning to address the pruning needs of the tree, and then how such pruning could be good for 10 years. I definitely am not one to oversell tree work, but generally imo, large deciduous trees growing around homes need work maybe every 5 years. 10 years seems like a heckuva long time.

 

[treelooker]

cory I cut a lot off, and the tree was not growing fast. but I agree, 10 may be stretching it. I'd pruned it ~5 years ago, and it's good that it did not wait much more.

Nick, lovely work there sir!

 

[cory]

Well alrighty then. Good luck with it!

Um, is that a real tree in your avatar?

 

[MasterBlaster]

Have I ever said I love this thread.... This is the thread you show customers if there ever was one.

 

[treelooker]

cory i do not know if it's real--when i signed up i needed an avatar so MB found that one for me.

He knows me well.

o and i only took 2 hours to prune because I am fat and stiff after a long wet winter; shoulda been 1.5 hrs.

 

[woodslinger]

Last week we turned this


Into this


There's also a half dead vine covered disaster of a mulberry tree that I climbed and dismantled, but I'm having trouble uploading the pics