Proper Pruning

Professional Pruning & Trimming Service

Although forest trees grow quite well with only nature’s pruning, landscape trees require different levels of care to maintain their beauty and structural integrity. Pruning should only be done by qualified Arborists. We have a strong knowledge of proper pruning techniques and safety practices, and a solid working knowledge of tree dynamics and biology.

Improper techniques can create lasting damage to a tree. We specialize in commercial tree pruning, trimming, and cutting services, and can customize one, three, and five-year tree maintenance plans that fit your budget and service needs.

Tree Pruning vs Tree Trimming…What’s the difference?

These terms are often used interchangeably, which is generally acceptable, but there is a difference. Pruning means removing dead, diseased, or structurally compromised branches. Tree trimming controls or cuts back overgrown trees. Trimming is also more widely used to describe landscape care on shrubs and bushes. While pruning and trimming are both horticultural terms, but oftentimes require different equipment and different times for implementation.

THE IMPORTANCE OF PRUNING TREES

Pruning is important for the health and safety of your trees and shrubs, your property, and your family. Opening and thinning crowded branches reduces wind pressure and helps prevent fungal diseases.

Tree pruning also helps to eliminate hazards around your property. Falling branches or dead roots can cause personal injury, property damage, and more. Regular pruning helps eliminate these hazards and keeps the growth and size of your tree in check, so the branches and leaves don’t interfere with power lines or other tall structures.

KEY BENEFITS OF TREE MAINTENANCE

⇒ Improve the health of your trees and overall Urban Forest.

⇒ Decrease hazardous tree situations due to dead branches or overgrowth.

⇒ Plan and budget your leafy assets proactively.

Gardener or tree surgeon pruning a tree.

It’s Not Just About Aesthetics

Everyone wants their trees to look beautiful. Pruning trees enhances a tree’s appearance and helps to provide a happy, health, safer life span. Proper tree maintenance can minimize storm damage, establish structure for future growth, mitigate risk for limb failure, and provide much-needed clearance for sidewalks and building structures. As mentioned earlier, improper pruning can damage a tree. Don’t hire just any tree trimmer individual or company! Our Arborists and technicians have expertise and knowledge and know exactly how to care for your trees.

We Pay Attention to Each Tree

There isn’t just one way to prune a tree. Different structures and needs call for different techniques. Our Arborists prune trees to ensure the proper technique every time.

Pruning Treatment Levels

PRUNING LEVEL I – CLEARANCE PRUNING

Clearance pruning shall include removal of branches to provide a minimum of 3 feet from building/structures, 8 feet over sidewalks, and 8 feet from roofs, 14 feet over roadways. Will not prune if the tree is within 10 ft of power lines.

PRUNING LEVEL II – CLEARANCE AND CROWN CLEAN

Pruning shall consist of selective pruning to remove the following: dead, diseased, and/or broken branches over 2 inches diameter. Prune out the lowest sucker growth. Include standard clearance: 3 ft from building and structures, 8 ft over the sidewalk, 8 ft from roofs, and 14 ft over the roadway. Will not prune if the tree is within 10 ft of power lines.

PRUNING LEVEL III – COMPLETE PRUNING

A complete pruning of a tree to improve health, aesthetics, and structure. This includes – hazard reduction pruning, removing deadwood, clearance pruning, remove lowest sucker growth, end weight reduction where necessary, and pruning to address structural defects where possible. All pruning to conform to ANSI-A300 industry pruning standards. Will not prune within 10 ft of overhead power lines.

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