Certified Arborist tell's all on proper pruning Techniques!

what's up guys it's mark russell let's prune some trees 770 arborist coming to you virtually we're going to look at some pruning why you don't top trees how you make proper cuts and the difference between canopy thinning canopy crown raising or canopy lifting let's jump into it um so let's look at we've got a little river birch here okay so looking at this river birch um uh let's suppose that we needed to do some canopy lifting because there's not enough light where can you cut this tree so like if you look in here what you don't want to do first off is you don't want to come across the top and reshape it even though you get tempted oh we can just reshape it you cannot top trees okay trees are not like bushes so you can't go in the reason they're not like bushes because the vascular system is very different when you're when a tree is tasked with moving sap from way down here to 50 feet up or 30 40 feet up squeezing her actually as a matter of fact it's not pushing the water it's pulling the water not everybody knows this but as water evaporates out of a leaf the cells crush down like like like this oh this is c4 energy drink okay or pre-workout actually i have not had any of this i had some caffeine but okay watch watch this is how it pulls uh sap up you ready watch this one two three funk okay so a water evaporates the cell squeezes down and then bunk it goes ah i need to expand and it pulls water up the trunk now here's the problem if you go cutting the top off there's no more leaves up there to go and pull water it messes everything up okay you cut the top off there are no leaves to pull the sap up you're messing the whole thing up you cannot do that bushes are different they they're they they don't need maybe there is some pressure going up from the roots that i actually don't know so that does leave the big question well how can you top the top of a bush probably because because at at freaking three foot high the surrounding limb leaves can still pull three foot high even if you have air entering into the system but you go freaking 50 feet high and you introduce air into the vascular system no good the leaves around it are going to have a real hard time because it's going to pull air into the system okay boy i wish i had a video of i wish i had an a video of um tree injection you guys are seeing all of my tree injec tree injection system let's see if they have any of it on a trunk to show demo yeah they don't i wish they did uh stump s-t-u-m-p let's see do they have any ah no no one has it i've been at tree trade shows before oh there it is watch this okay who is this the weeknd handyman i'm gonna kill your watch this watch this when you inject okay when you inject a tree hold on just a second let's see where it goes let's see look look look see right there you shoot it right here and it comes up right there okay that's this is a pack of straws you guys a tree is like a pack of straws the second you introduce air it's not pulling up this is the way that trees move material up and down this is why you don't top trees okay we've gotten over that subject let's go to four minutes you guys are gonna have to be on marathon okay let's go to proper pruning cuts uh p r o p e r p r u propping proper pruning cuts images here we go we're gonna talk about let's see okay this first off we've done this before we talked about the three cut method okay you make an undercut then you make an overcut that prevents it from peeling but i want to talk about um crown proper pruning c-r-o-w r-e-d-u-c-t-i this is a crown reduction cut let's see if we can find a good image and if not i may have to just draw one uh where okay i'm probably gonna have to draw one oh this is perfect okay and i'm gonna have to i'm gonna have to bring this out oh come on let me let me to the the image where's my image that was like a big teaser open image in new tab bam and then we're gonna do a little bit of hoopty do here here we go you ready fill in the screen baby okay let me tell you about this here are the rules okay when you're doing a crown reduction cut skipping back over to here like what if you did want to take some of these down what if you absolutely had to and sometimes you do because what happens is that um is that like power lines sometimes go over and they have to make a a crown reduction cut is that a topping cut no because a topping cut basically branches going up and you cut midway right in the middle and there's no side branch coming off there's some rules if you do a crown reduction cut you can cut a big one in the middle if you leave one and here are the rules number one the one that you leave the diameter has to be at least fifty percent or bigger of the one that you cut okay so if this is if this is the original and this is let's say two inches the one that you leave has to be one inch why it's really important remember when we go back to oh i already turned it off but we talked about um what we talked about is that sap flow going up the trunk there is sap coming up the trunk and going up here well here's the deal this thing has to get healed off it has to get like the callous wood grown over it that may be an inappropriate term used there but no matter what needs to get the concealing wood the scab oh my gosh did i just use that word it has to close it off okay now remember also you will never have this area heal all that will happen is a little donut ring from the cambium letter layer will close off over that and conceal trees don't heal they conceal okay what we want them to do is conceal quickly and that's why we do the second port well that's why one this has to be 50 or bigger so that enough sap flows up so that it could quickly deposit and conceal and keep the bugs out and minimize and compartmentalize the potential for decay that's it it's decay that's the reason why this angle says final cut and imaginary line okay you do not want to cut now you can make your first cut on this but your final cut needs to roughly do or follow the line here let's talk about why i'm going to zoom in a little bit more okay here's the deal guys and this is very important if you leave it here you're going to have this this area right out here at a 90 degree area as the sap comes up it's going to tend to go this way which means if you have a really far extruding let's say you drew the cut like that there's no way sap is going to go and deposit minerals out here on a line that finalized like that so you'll get this triangle of rot and it'll never be able to seal across wood you need to make it so that this area right here can get the the deposit of that um that new wood growth to conceal it here because if it's way out here sap is not going to go out there then the wood will rot and then it'll go down into your trunk and then this piece years to come it's going to get totally fat it's going to get totally fat oh this genuinely make i'm gonna put it on pause real quick something by the word of fat i said okay remember fat when you get back to doing this video i don't even oh something about someone's gonna get big and fat like this is gonna get when it gets fatter this is gonna rot i have no idea i'm so irritated i just lost my train of thought at 9 minutes and 40 seconds okay let's keep on going okay so we talked about don't top your tree let's talk a little bit about canopy thinning okay this is thinning let's just look at some pictures you guys watch this let's see open in open image in new tab whoever's website that was i'm so sorry we're not looking at your image directly and i'm changing the media so i'm legally allowed to do it crown cleaning before super duper scrappy crown cleaning crown thinning now now i don't know the difference between cleaning and thinning oh maybe cleaning is taking out the dead and thinning would be taking out some life here's the important part you guys okay do you notice that the shape the outside shape is the same okay so you never want to go especially and make a cut right there now you could do crown reduction cut that is crown reduction this is where they've gone and they have taken at the y they've taken that middle one out and they come down to those two actually this is not really let's see representative let's see where did they take this cut oh yeah yeah yeah look look look they took the cut like this isn't a great example because where you would do a crown reduction is you would take and i can't let's see can it will it that's the maximum whatever percentage so a crown reduction cut might go like here or you might cut here remember the rule 50 or bigger of the one that you're cutting um is the one that you're leaving so could you take a cut here maybe that would be pushing it but you can do crown reduction cuts but this and also crown thinning allows once again for light to penetrate see how see how super like kind of grown over that is so you could go in and you could take like one out of four of these internals right and then also like if you check check this out watch like on this you would want to kind of if you're going to do a canopy lift which is crown raising there's a crown raising open image in new tab bajunk here we go alt for no not alt this is way too much way too much you would never want to go that high that is like it's called lions tailing and that's going to mess everything up but you could go and maybe take that or you would want to stay at about maximum 30 in one growing season and that is during the winter fall and winter when the tree is in dormant for reasons number one there are no bugs in the winter you cut in the middle of the summer it's like taking a dog does his business out in the grass and in like five minutes there's flies on it it's the same thing you make a cut on a tree and within a day man you're gonna get post-bore beetles it can happen it's always better few uh cuts here and there but like a lot of cuts man the pheromones are going out in the atmosphere and it can attract bugs okay that's number one number two it gives the cuts time to dry if you cut them in the winter so the next summer there are no bugs they're dried they're not smelling good number three it got full photosynthesis full photosynthesis it pushed out all its leaves and got all the return on investment okay all the return on investment for the leaves that it did it photosynthesized got back all that nutrients and number four when it does push during spring flush it pushes all that energy back toward ah where's my good oh it's so annoying it pushes it all back to heal that cut to conceal that cut so instead of pushing for new leaves it goes and pushes all of it to conceal that cut so you're optimizing let me let me make my screen big optimizing the amount of energy on that spring flush to just totally have that cambium layer go and clean and seal the goal of proper pruning is to conceal and optimize every little micro piece of energy in that tree to make sure it's optimally used because at the end of the day you can get some red guy who doesn't know what he's doing do you go to the middle and cut your tree and guess what five years from now you he shaped it shaped it oh we're gonna we're gonna shape it up well what he did is he topped your tree and now little sprouts come out and now decay pockets form on those sprouts because he cut it in the middle of the branch instead of at the y and then like five years from now you've got decay pockets all over the place and it's cracking in the littlest bit of storms and falling on your kids i kind of like this i probably should not have had so much and it was just caffeine it wasn't c4 but i am having a lot of time a good time with this okay sorry i kind of went i kind of got done with the two quick video okay so we've covered don't top your tree we've covered the angles okay you want to make sure that you follow that was the other thing i have to tell you this so i have to find where we were at okay this was it open image in new tab and let's get that bad boy this is what we were talking about we need to roughly follow the line right here to make sure that we don't have that corner right there that'll turn into decay right down the tree form a decay pocket and ah there it is when this gets big and fat falls over and conks your kid on the head or your grandma or yourself when you're older and walking with your cane okay let's not do that not a good idea when we can just simply make our crown reduction cuts the way that ansi american national stanza z133 standards book talks about i think it's in there okay okay so we are covering the lion's share of pruning practices let's let's go back to this okay so now all of a sudden we've got um we've got maximum one-third crown density then we go to some internal thinning so that the grass or the light can go through thin that up a little get a little extra on the zoysia rather than the bermuda okay oh this is gonna be awesome as a side note let's say we have some septic issues where would we want to dr uh put let's just say we are updating our septic system on this particular property you always need to be really careful this is total side note you don't want to dig any closer probably on this one than ish here two things you've got buttress roots let's let's do it i'm having too much fun with this one guys okay tree buttress s b-u-t-t-r-e-s-s tree buttress roots holy shenanigans what are we talking about look at those big old fatties these are the ones that support the weight of the tree now let's look at another one oh that package hold on just a second wrong type of tree what tree buttress roots i'm not looking for that i'm looking for normal buttress roots these are like serious this is you know this is like this is such a great example of the internet like you just want a normal buttress route hey i just want to make a normal political comment but then it has to go like to this this is the the tree example of the internet's political like polarization how polarized and how dramatic the internet gets i'm not going political on this video no way ah okay so you got buttress roots here open image open image in new tab uh i need to start ah are you kidding me you guys are you really gonna do that satisfaction okay so you get these big fatties okay these are the ones that stabilize okay you don't want to put digging right here you will destabilize your tree let's look at something else tree root p-l-a-t-e let's take a look at a tree root plate oh here we go and this is the kind of the plate right here open image in new tab are we are we ready dude what is up with these little itty bitty images okay so like what do we got we got probably nine feet here so here's the issue if you take and you if you went right here like right there you may not like actually or maybe right here you may not like affect the stabilization it'd be bad you don't want to dig right there not on that tree like you would really want maximum probably here and i think there is a oh root plate remember root plate maximum root plate distance and why i got to put you on pause here we go root plate distance hold on i should have written it down root plate distance we were talking something about the root plate that oh yeah we're talking about the idea of this guys if you cut too close man i need to show you look okay look if you cut too close okay like you run a line right here all of a sudden you're taking out like a section of the trees like feeding capability a percentage when a line goes straight through all of a sudden now there are a lot of feeder roots in the root plate there are also a lot of them out here too so if you like go wrapping like let's say you cut all the way around here okay let's say you put a septic line all the way around here i'm telling you that is gonna tax that tree big time big time you you you go all the way around i mean bottom line you may not have a choice but there it is gonna tax that tree okay that was septic we talked about crown reduction cuts we talked about crown thinning we talked about canopy lifting let's just look at that real quick i want to do that make sure that we cover it tree c-r-o-w-n-l-i tree crown lifting okay we did no more than 30 percent okay here's a great one open image in new tab there we go another small image but i do want to talk about it real quick make sure we have covered it okay this is a great example look at this before everything hanging down after okay now this is a good look at this one look look look this is a great example uh oh here they did a great example of kind of showing do you see this let's see see this little hanger right here you would not want to take that one out right there because it would like totally bring it up to where this one is the one that's left and that would get weird looking because um because look at the other side like right you want a nice balanced look and if you cut it here you wouldn't we call this this cut right here shaving the beard right so we need to shave the beard right here okay we need to do a little clippy clip and they did such a great example thank you thank you whoever you were who did this image that i am now recreating under copyright legalities and making new artwork okay so um so anyway this here cut here cut here cut here great example take it back over to this example okay so we'll make we'll make a cut right there i can see a branch we'll take that whole section out there's a dropper right there there's a dropper that one's gonna be connected to here but let's say this big old honkadoo right here if we're gonna try to get a line that comes through here they're gonna be little drops coming off the honkadoo then we're gonna need to trim the beard okay and then out here at the tips this is where i would say like look here you're gonna have places in this area like right here see that's the farthest we can drill in but let's say you have this little branch coming down through here right okay well there might be somewhere in here a little a little thing that goes up right so you would want at that y to get your loppers and clip the tip and you can do a crown reduction cut right there that way you eliminate that piece coming out there you get more light coming down in through here and you still have that branch okay that's supporting and the reason you want that supporting branch lion's tail keyword youtube lion's tale remember that one and see if we get some youtube traffic here we go let's uh giving away all my secrets l y o n s t a i l lion's tail pruning come on ai come on russell here we go lion's tail problem with lion's tail is that you do not get see look at here look at here open image in new tab if you lion's tail too hard what happens is so this is correct if you lion's tail too hard you need these branches during a thin to continue to add girth right here what they do is they photosynthesize and they add the ability for the tree to build girth right here if you don't you'll get a really thin branch and bushy out here like a lion's tail and it'll crack right here over time okay so that's the problem with lions tailing trees um also it causes advantageous sprouts right so you need to leave a few in if you line's tail too hard you need to leave a few in and it keeps down the advantage it sprouts and it keeps it from cracking okay did we cover everything we covered the auxiliary septic we had the the the 30 we covered the four issues on why you don't prune in the summer heavy heavy heavy duty we covered how to canopy clean we covered the angles of a proper y cut and i guarantee you my add dropped four of those subjects there's no way i've finished my sentence i should go back through and edit this i'll bet you 25 of my sentences in this 25 minutes one per minute okay guys that is it now this is just some pruning stuff if you have a tree falling on your house call us we'll dispatch some really bad to the bone equipment lift the tree off the house and work directly with your insurance company however we are also good at pruning and during the non-emergency times we can prune your trees and we're really good at it that's it i hope you enjoyed this it was 26 minutes hey can you hit the thumbs up and the subscribe come on this is good quality content hit it because someone else needs this this tree content just do it and the notifications for subscribe oh i need to i'm gonna show i'm gonna shush because this was a good video this was a good video okay share the word with a like and a subscribe that's it y'all take it easy bye bye

Channel: 770 Arborist Emergency Tree & Crane Service

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Keywords: Lions tailing, root plate, proper pruning, canopy lift, Crown reduction, Crown thinning, Crown Cleaning, Tree topping, certified Arborist, septic lines, septic system, buttress roots.

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Length: 27min 0sec (1620 seconds)

Published: Fri Jul 03 2020