Don't be a Hack | How to prune a tree | arborist tips & tricks

Felco. Yeah, most of what I saw you cut, I'd never use my saw for those cuts, I'd use my Felco hand prunner, or lopping shears. It's easier, faster, cleaner.

Dude, your thumbnail makes you look like someone out of a sci fi movie like Starship Troopers

Are you allowed to have the tree of Gondor as your brand logo? I was going to use it for mine lol

I need you in my garden 🙈

I'd love to see more live oak pruning

How does one tell if the limb is dead, or dying? Particularly with pine trees, as that's 90% of what I've got in my yard.

I live in MN. It is my understanding live pursuing, especially oaks, should. Be done in winter. My concern is if I target dead or dying branches, how do I identify them since the leaves would now have fallen from the tree?
TIA
RJ

In my limited experience of growing stuff if it doesn’t se the sun it needs to go , but maybe not all at once

Can you do a before and after picture side by side at the end next time?

Showed no closeups

Very informative. You present yourself very well.

Think as an aborist c a tree one way. Open n yer is it right sometimes maybe not

Everyone has there ideas on it. One love to c is ornamental pear. Only cos they go mental. Thanx

I didn't know it took so much for tree cutting. All I wanted to do is cut some branches that are cutting up my car because its grown so much. Now Im not sure if I want to cut anything.

In France, especially in south of France, in Dordogne where I'm, we have a lot of very similar trees, quercus ilex (chêne vert), because the leaves are like ilex (houx, holly). The wood is heavy, very hard, we have planty of them on our land, because it's dry, hot and ful of limestone. One is probably very old (more than 300 years old). Some old leaves are falling during the summer, just a part, and the tree still "evergreen". The wood is beautiful, used to make knives handle. We cut some falling old and big quercus ilex, and the middle was deep black, not rooten, hard and amazing, because of a begginig of disease , very nice! In our county, they are planted for truffle (expensive mushroom).

Hmmm 🤔. Yes and No.
Not to discredit everything this humble chap has said but for anyone that really wants to know how to prune, Google and study:
Natural Target Pruning.

I love your helmet, thank you for posting this video!

I urgently need such a helmet)

Live oaks are nice to work.on..ive never heard of pass through pruners...but bypass are available everywhere...the only thing that is silky about the draw of that saw is the name.I have tried silky and the action is not smooth..the saw is too big for most of the cuts that you are doing ..that style of cutting with that sized saw will always result in tear cuts.. for efficiency.would be better with felco or infaco electronic with a small or medium blade...those cuts could be shown to your arborist friends

Thanks! I'm a self employed landscaper/maintainer. This vid shows I don't respect the pruning process as much as I should.
For one, I do not sani my cutters often enough nor do I use the reasoning you have for selecting cuts aside from dead and drooping limbs.
Very informative.

I love the headline. Don't be hack. I come from a town where every tree residential tree guys don't know how to trim properly. Drives me nuts

Thanks!

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Looks great

There are times where if a branch is too small to cut; a pair of secateurs is better than a pruning saw itself otherwise it will tear and can cause disease in the future.

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Cool video! Please don’t use words like “vectors” though when describing how to trim a tree!

"Dont be a hack"🤣 and then prunes a live oak while its not dormant 🤣👏👏👏 great job bud

Thank you!

What are the best tools for pruning on a tree that starting to shade out my garden is it best to use a ripsaw chainsaw or a pool tree pruners

Well-presented video on how to prune and shape a tree. Very helpful!

Always where a helmet when hand pruning. Especially when it makes you look like a Power Ranger

Hey bro, what's the length on that tsurugi? I'm looking at buying one, they look sick

What is livestailing I couldn't find anything

Great info..thanks

Well done! 👍 Greetings from Russia!

Yeah…I think I’ll pay a gardener to do it. Too advanced for me.

Great video man, rock on!

Silky back pull saws are the absolute best

Light bulbs

Thanks

Thank you very much very useful and marketable knowledge. Greatly appreciated

I learned something again, I do every time I watch you,thank you again.

Great stuff, thank you for the video!

Broafleaf evergreen* not evergreen deciduous... By the way that tree has a codominant stem, does it have bark inclusion because that tree will eventually fail if it does...