Product to seal cut wound on tree?

[treequip]

Then what's the point in proper pruning cuts? Have the ****** got it right after all??

 

What are proper pruning cuts if not an approximation of what happens in nature

[Johny Walker]

try a bit off creasote thats good for timber not so good for yr baby making tackle tho

[MATTMOSS]

try a bit off creasote thats good for timber not so good for yr baby making tackle tho

 

I agree, never apply creosote with your baby making tackle.

[Ty Korrigan]

Yes but that's how it happens in nature and I would say nature has the edge in experience

 

So why do humans use antisceptiques instead of leaving to nature...?

Just a question, don't shoot me for it!

Ty

[AlvinD]

A pruning cut is applied at the collar because there is a higher amount of "healing cells" around the collar of the branch to enable CODIT to take place more effectively and efficiently.

 

I also believe leaving a stub will indeed delay pathogens to enter the branch while the tree introduces its protective barriers.

[MATTMOSS]

The thing is, we are talking about Unnaturally chopping branches off a tree with a chainsaw to a point that the tree will be best enabled to include/seal the wound.

That point has been found to be at the branch collar, through the work of Shigo.

Leaving stub cuts will not help the long term inclusion process.

In a natural environment with no intervention from man, it wouldn't matter.

Formative pruning corrects defects.

Matt

[18 stoner]

I think you are missing the point!

 

I said leave a stub as this (I believe) is a large wound. Particularly on beech, a large wound will almost certainly never heal over before there is extensive, and possibly fatal decay or failure.

 

The idea of a stub is purely to delay the inevitable. This is the point where BS3998 need not apply IMO as a "correct collar prune" is meaningless in the long term.

[Eddie Eco]

Evening gents. How have Coronet Cuts not yet cropped up in this thread?

[18 stoner]

Well hell yeh! I guess It could look pretty while we're leaving a stub anyway!

[easy-lift guy]

Tree wound dressing is sold in many forms here stateside. I have found that the use of such material only benefits the manufacturers and foolish customers willing to buy out of shear ignorance. Allow the wound to heal naturally and move forward.

easy-lift guy