Tree Trimming
This is the most common tree maintenance procedure. Since improper pruning can cause life long damage or shorten the trees life;
pruning should only be done with an understanding of how the tree responds to each cut.
All work performed to the Ansi A300 pruning standards:
This part of the A300 standards applies to pruning and trimming operations. Part 1 Pruning addresses:
- Pruning practices
- Pruning objectives (includes vista/view enhancement and structural enhancement)
- Pruning methods (types)
- Palm pruning
- Utility pruning
A300 Pruning standards recognize four basic pruning methods for pruning:
- Clean: Selective pruning to remove one or more of the following parts: dead, diseased, and/or broken branches.
- Thin: Selective pruning to reduce density of live branches.
- Raise: Selective pruning to provide vertical clearance.
- Reduce: Selective pruning to decrease height and/or spread (consideration must be given to the ability of a species
to tolerate reduction pruning).
Topping - the reduction of a tree's size using heading cuts that shorten limbs or branches back to a predetermined crown limit, or Lion's Tailing - the removal of an excessive number of inner, lateral branches from parent branches - can injure trees and not considered normal pruning practices! http://www.treecareindustry.org/public/gov_standards_a300.htm
Rope and saddle climbing or bucket truck, no spurs, crafts, or climbing spikes use on line trees.
All clean up included wood, brush removed from job site.