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Tree Trimming
Tree Trimming Services
Member of the ISA | Top Tree Service Award
Member of the ISA
Top Tree Service Award
Tree Trimming for the Health and Beauty of Your Trees
Brian's Tree Service will trim your trees with a goal of long-term tree health and preservation. Trees can't survive cutting in the same way that grass can. Improper cutting can cause permanent damage to trees. Don't let your trees be damaged by an unskilled, unqualified trimmer. Call a Certified Arborist for the health, beauty, and life of your property's most valuable assets.
Tree Trimming
Proper tree trimming should include the removal of deadwood down to a specified size, the removal of stubs, and the removal of broken limbs, the removal of some of the lower sucker growth to about one third the height of the tree, the removal of limbs that are crossing and rubbing, thinning out the ends of branches that are very long and heavy, raising the canopy over the yard and any structure or wires to an acceptable height and distance, and painting all cuts made to the tree over one inch in diameter.
Our trimming usually lasts three to four years and sometimes longer before the customer sees the need to call us back. Most of my competitors’ trimming last only six months to a year because they “strip” or over-prune trees, putting them into shock. The trees’ response to this shock is rapid sucker growth as they attempt to replace the lost foliage.
This is the same thing that happens when trees are topped and send out dozens of new stems from the stump of what was previously one large branch. The excessive sucker growth is unsightly and prompts the homeowner to call for another trimming long before it would be necessary if it had been done correctly.
Trees that have been properly trimmed should still look like trees. They should not bring to mind the shape of broccoli or feather dusters or lion tails. All cuts should be clean cuts, without any protruding stubs or torn edges. Bad cuts cause rot that can eventually kill the whole tree, and/or improperly attached new growth that is more likely to break under the stress of wind or ice.
Types of Tree Pruning to Be Performed
- Crown Cleaning (CC): Selective removal of deadwood at a specified size, diseased, detached, and broken branches to improve appearance and safety.
- Crown Thinning (CT): Selective removal of small branches to reduce crown density mainly focused on the outside edge of the crown.
- Structural Pruning (SP): The removal of live branches and stems to influence the orientation, spacing, growth rate, strength of attachment, and ultimate size of branches and stems.
- Elevation Pruning (EP): Selective removal or reduction of branches to provide vertical clearance.
- Crown Reduction (CR): Selective removal of branches and stems to decrease the height, weight, and/or spread of a tree.
- Crown Restoration (CRN): Selective removal of branches, sprout, and stubs from trees that have been topped, severely headed, vandalized, lion-tailed, storm damaged, or otherwise damaged to improve the structure, form, and appearance.
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