A pretty basic question.....?

[Mr P]

Ok cheers, think I was doing a bit of both before!!...it might help my speed up the tree and now if a client asks I can tell them the reasons behind it.

 

Cheers again!

 

 

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[MattyF]

I never really got why crossing branches are the enemy... I have seen plenty of trees held together with natural bracing of course there are obvious exceptions but natural bracing through crossing branches ... How do we all feel on crown raising !?

[Mr P]

I was always told you took out crossing branches as they could cause a wound in the tree and hence open it up to pathogens. As for crown raising, as long as its not a huge amount I can't see the problem. As stated before tho I'm pretty new to private work and so stand to be corrected.

 

 

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[Woodcrafter]

You will be better off reading the bs3998

It outlines in very easy to understand terminology most pruning operations.

If you haven't been trained according to this you should also pick up a climbers companion it will help you in your progress.

[skyhuck]

I would say basically they are the same things, Prune/reduction/trim, all mean "Make smaller"

 

Not really, "pruning" is simply the removal of any branch, twig, limb or multiples there of.

 

A "reduction" suggests making a whole tree smaller.

 

A "trim" is what you do to to a hedge or ask the barber for.

 

IMO.

[Le Sanglier]

Tomayto Tomarto! It's all semantics. Anyway I will bow to the modern terminology.

[skyhuck]

Tomayto Tomarto! It's all semantics. .

 

Not really, this tree has been "pruned", but I don't think anyone would say its been reduced

[Jack Price]

Not really

 

Reduction tends to be in size, and a specific measurement given as to how much to take off, normally incorporates a prune as a matte of course

 

Prune, basic prune IMO is dead, crossing, epicormics, Stubbs, leaving the shape untouched, unless something like lamp house ect is too close, or there's a daft looking sticky outy bit. Then there's safety pruning, formative pruning etc

 

Thin, reduction in volume, allows more light to filter through, shape untouched. Not lions tailing mind

 

Trim, hedges are trimmed

 

this is as i know it

[Le Sanglier]

Not really, this tree has been "pruned", but I don't think anyone would say its been reduced

 

I like it!

As previously described I would say the crossing branch/epicormic stuff was termed a crown clean, but if I'm wrong then I'm wrong.

[skyhuck]

"Pruning" is simply the act of removing a part or parts of a tree, you cannot "reduce", "thin", "dead wood", etc, with "pruning, but "pruning" in no way describes what parts of the tree that are removed or the finished form or shape of the tree.