De cone maritime pine

[dicky]

Hi what are peoples preferred methods of de-coning pines? No access of a mewp.

[Andrew Gale]

Climbing and a lot of patience....?

[Mr. Squirrel]

They're a bit of a pain due to their form, a stick with a hook on the end is helpful. Is this an odd request from customer, or is there a plan for the cones?

[Goaty]

In the states professionals shoot them off various trees with guns.

[John Shutler]

good luck, we removed 370ish from a Monterey pine over the roof of a conservatory. it was probably a 10th of the crown maybe less

[Mr. Squirrel]

In the states professionals shoot them off various trees with guns.

 

Is that not a little excessive/dangerous?

[Goaty]

Is that not a little excessive/dangerous?

 

Don't know much about it really, read it in a propagation book. Probably lethal to mr squirrel .:001_smile:I suppose if you are in the wilds of wilderness America, who else is going to be around. I'd personally be annoyed by the shots that missed and damaged the tree.

 

Probably banned in the EU due to insect habitat disturbance.

[dicky]

Customer has just moved into a new property and won't let his kids in the garden because a big one came down. I agree, a right pain to climb. I was thinking hooky poles and maybe lopper on poles for flimsy thinner branches. Luckily nothing underneath!

[Arran Turner]

Customer has just moved into a new property and won't let his kids in the garden because a big one came down. I agree, a right pain to climb. I was thinking hooky poles and maybe lopper on poles for flimsy thinner branches. Luckily nothing underneath!

 

 

Make sure you charge by the hour

[aquatoo]

Good luck with that. Maritime pines are like a 20-30m stick with loads of residual dead branch stems up the stick and an umbrella at the top with the cones on. Fell it and pick the cones up afterwards.

 

Over the last year I have felled 26 Maritime Pines on my property in France. The soil is sandy and the wind blows really hard so they either lean over after the gale or, if they don't snap off in the wind, they fall over and drag up a huge root mat which is a real pain to get rid of.