All You Need To Understand Concerning Tree Trimming

| Saturday, April 19, 2014
By Essie Osborn


Identifying proper care for the trees found within your landscape is very essential. You will have assurance of securing professional work by utilizing the services of an arborist who is certified by the society of arboriculture. As a client, you are free to visit the office of forest division so that you are served with a list of certified arborists and licensed tree care companies. It is important to note that proper tree trimming should be established if the vegetation within your compound is to remain safe, healthy and aesthetically pleasing.

The fact that plants add to beauty of a landscape and increase its value shows the need of suitable trimming. In a situation whereby the plants within a given field are not trimmed, they will have poor healthy, there will be increased hazards and liability, the property will loose value and the long term maintenance costs will be elongated. Poor results and the high risk of accidents are the two main reasons why people should not involve themselves in self pruning. This is caused by lack of pruning skills and the required tools for work. It is therefore recommended that all trimming jobs be left for licensed arborists.

Removing weak branches and establishing a main stem will help achieve better structural strength of a pine. Research indicates that pines that have been subjected to training are structurally stronger as compared to those which were not. The chances of a plant that posses a strong structure failing are very minimal.

Starting pruning at early ages will make it possible to reduce the maintenance costs of a certain forest. In normal circumstances, a trained eucalyptus has a reduced number of branches than one which is not and therefore it will require less pruning. On addition, if branches of the tree to be trimmed are well spaced, the work of the person undertaking pruning will be easy. Unnecessary cost like the ones needed to cater for structural defects are avoided if proper pruning is done in time.

Pruning entails doing away with broken, dying, dead, damaged and diseased branches. The person undertaking the process is expected to inspect the canopy to see how well such branches can be cut away. In all exercises, a central leader should be selected and established. As there should be only one leader, it is the strongest and most vertical stem that is chosen and competing stems eliminated.

A well attached branch that lies within the desired height is taken to be the lower permanent branch. All the closely spaced branches are eliminated once this is identified. The existing standards suggest that the diameter of this branch to be not more than half that of the central leader.

Selection and establishment of scaffold branches is another crucial step of trimming. This is normally composed of well attached branches that are found above the lowest permanent branch. It is required that scaffold branches be properly spaced.

Successful pruning will only be achieved if safety precautions are obeyed. The firm hired to perform the task should provide its workers with protective clothes. The process should never be started if any hazardous conditions are present. Some of the common hazards in such fields include live electricity cables and stinging insects.




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