reduction pruning on big oaks

[dadio]

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V5EVCqsb_Vk]Proper Tree Pruning Paoli PA 19301 .mov - YouTube[/ame]

 

Here are a couple of big oaks we pruned a month or two ago... voice over and comments on the scene combined with some good climbing/limb walking and using the 75' altec bucket truck.

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

show me the red oak in 4 years dadio

[button1803]

show me the red oak in 4 years dadio

 

[scottythepinetree]

Nice tree Daniel. You get a before and after shot? Reducing big trees from a bucket is one of my favourite jobs. Really like being able to swing away and get a good look at the tree as you're working on it. I always get a better end result that way.

[dadio]

show me the red oak in 4 years dadio

OK check back in 4 years!...

[Mark Bolam]

I was impressed.

 

Good explanation of technique, and I totally agree about older trees compartmentalising smaller wounds better than some of the 6"+ maiming I regularly see down here in Kent and East Sussex.

 

Tone, please explain what Daniel has done wrong?

 

Although, knowing you 'I would like to see that Red Oak in 4 years' means 'I would like to see that Red Oak in 4 years'! (Because you like to see trees full stop!).

 

Enjoyed the video Daniel, and the climber knew his stuff.

 

Thanks for posting.

[mistahbenn]

Aye aye aye Lord Murphy.

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

I was impressed.

 

Good explanation of technique, and I totally agree about older trees compartmentalising smaller wounds better than some of the 6"+ maiming I regularly see down here in Kent and East Sussex.

 

Tone, please explain what Daniel has done wrong?

 

Although, knowing you 'I would like to see that Red Oak in 4 years' means 'I would like to see that Red Oak in 4 years'! (Because you like to see trees full stop!).

 

Enjoyed the video Daniel, and the climber knew his stuff.

 

Thanks for posting.

 

Red Oak is notoriously poor at dealing with reduction wounds, often cabium dies back in strips and results in a flush of epicormic which isnt always long lived.

 

They are very very difficult to manage and if Dado pulls it of I would be keen to see the result four years from now, I remain sceptical.

[scottythepinetree]

Red Oak is notoriously poor at dealing with reduction wounds, often cabium dies back in strips and results in a flush of epicormic which isnt always long lived.

 

They are very very difficult to manage and if Dado pulls it of I would be keen to see the result four years from now, I remain sceptical.

 

Aside from a reduction, what would you recommend for Red Oak, in this instance? Reckon a few of those cuts are around the 6"+ mark, one at 5.30ish for one example. I probably would have gone ahead in much the same way Daniel did.

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

Aside from a reduction, what would you recommend for Red Oak, in this instance? Reckon a few of those cuts are around the 6"+ mark, one at 5.30ish for one example. I probably would have gone ahead in much the same way Daniel did.

 

I would not be so quick to reduce a red Oak, not in the U>K anyways, they are very prone to cambium die back and armillaria which is a prevalent weakness parasite here. in the states who knows? not saying dadio wrong in reducing it, not my place to say, im in the u.k where this tree is not native, a very different situation to home territory/native scenario as it is for dadio