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  1. Redtree

    Soil Testing

    Warning, this post is typical redtree. A bit back and forth. Edited like pulp fiction. Wow excellent perspective Sylvia. I think referring people like Sylvia and DSMc is the way to go. I'm a professional tree surgeon, intermediate in disease and pest details, and amateur in soil testing and...
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    Dead (and Undead) Wood

    Good general definition Guy. But I almost see it as: Remove low deadwood for aesthetics and deadwood throughout over 1.5 inch diameter for safety. Over 2" for lighter wooded trees. I have to wonder in that definition you gave could you just switch out sanitation for aesthetics. Not that...
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    selling mature crown reduction to average folks

    JD3000, good question about growth inhibitor application. I'm not sure and I assume that it's side affects in the ecosystem aren't as bad as pesticides or herbicides. But that's a huge assumption. I just looked it up and saw it has herbicide qualities as well. Is that true? Not that it's...
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    selling mature crown reduction to average folks

    What's PBZ? A growth inhibitor? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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    selling mature crown reduction to average folks

    It's funny I think there is a lot more to this aesthetic issue than meets the eye. Many aspects of tree work are over focused on aesthetics and more landscaping or clearance based than tree care based. So we need to try to overlap landscaping and clearance with tree care. Raising can often be...
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    Reducing trees is unnatural?

    Nice pic. sometimes it's a matter of defining what is vertical and what is reaching. And often those codominant limbs at 10-20 degrees to the vertical are the high risk. Especially in norways when they surpass the central leader. Definitely agree that damaged limbs need more work. And I guess...
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    Reducing trees is unnatural?

    Not in my 16 years of experience. I reduce soft maples on a weekly basis. I commonly remove 200-800 lbs from a tree. Not really pussy footing when the entire tree gets taper improvement. Slowly improving taper is progressive and effective. Cuts over 3" in maples can be just as damaging as the...
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    Reducing trees is unnatural?

    Completely relavent. Yes the green ash got hit hard. But do you know the Siberian Elm were hit maybe as hard, maybe harder at around 75 percent significantly damaged. Nice to see they just stubbed them where the broke or just below. Most will shoot. Good prescription or no time I don't know. The...
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    selling mature crown reduction to average folks

    That's interesting Guy, I tried to minimize the insult to an Oak tree with my knowledge yesterday. The goal was to bring light to the garden by removing a 10" narrowly attached limb (upright at its origination, then bending out). I said 'today I'd like to mitigate. I'd rather radically reduce...
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    Reducing trees is unnatural?

    Oh I forgot. 'Topping is bad'. Yes height. Really. Yes height is very much a factor. I see you are from Ontario. I'm from Ontario too. Did you visit Toronto after the 2013 ice storm? The observation was consistent that uprights failed more often or at least as often as laterals. To clarify, at...
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    Reducing trees is unnatural?

    25 to 35 percent of what? The height or the total foliage? Walk me through it. Look at the recent before pic to use as an example in terms of form. No major deficiencies or decay. The odd narrow crotch but not combined with decay. Almost equally ready to break in all parts of the tree. Most...
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    Reducing trees is unnatural?

    So what maximum reduction lengths would you suggest to remove from a 3 stem soft maple? Assuming the middle stem is 16" and the outer leaners are 20". The width is 75' and the height is 65'. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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    Reducing trees is unnatural?

    So what maximum reduction lengths would you suggest to remove from a 3 stem soft maple? Assuming the middle stem is 16" and the outer leaners are 20". The width is 75' and the height is 65'. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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    Reducing trees is unnatural?

    First off, I've been meaning to thank you Ropeshield, for bringing to my attention the phrase 'stem tracing' a while back. Nice term. In maples this teqhnique, if I understand it correctly, can involve a reduction cut. I'm assuming that usually, it is a thinning cut which maintains the direction...
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    Reducing trees is unnatural?

    This post refers to trees that are passed establishment and into the period of growth, often established and or neglected into their 'problems'. For the basic idea skip to the last five or six sentences. You got it JD3000, Maples can have plenty of codominant stems, especially the now popular...
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    Dead (and Undead) Wood

    What? Can you rephrase that? If you read it in a book is it true? Sorry Marllene, you are right sometimes. It's another generalization gone wrong in arboriculture. So it's not a rule. Not a good one anyway. It might be accurate for more than half the species in the world but probably less than...
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    Reducing trees is unnatural?

    Definitely a few but not as many as reduction cuts. Probably more on the second application to correct the sprouting that I expect, which is usually not as chaotic as many people think. Small and medium reduction cuts don't sucker like a cut stump. The taper is improved throughout the tree, so...
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    selling mature crown reduction to average folks

    Thanks TimBr for reposting that. I almost forgot I wrote that. Thanks Guy for the challenge. I will try that. Ok a few more than 35 to hit some details but less than 350. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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    selling mature crown reduction to average folks

    Guy I like the way that Taiwan standard shows triangulation. It's like what I applied to that reduction on the thread 'reducing trees is unnatural' just now. Not a decayed tree so instead of applying triangulation to the tree, it was applied to each limb. [Look at the limb sticking up on the...
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    Reducing trees is unnatural?

    Just noticed my famous mistake and an important detail. The height reduction above is actually downplayed. I took the pic from the roof, in the exact same spot with no zoom both times. But the after shot points slightly lower. The point of view is the same. The angle of the view is slightly...

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