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The lead on my 3 year old incense cedar is drooping (not upright). Any idea of the cause?

The lead on my 3 year old incense cedar is drooping (not upright). Any idea of the cause?

This is great! I have exactly the same problem with an aggressive birch tree. Now I know how to handle it. Thanks! 😊

Whats orange oil?

That would be a great video if you actually showed us like the sharpening edge while you were sharpening it or inking it or any of that stuff so basically it's a pretty crappy video

Johnny Cochran told me…”Regarding birch trees, leave them be!”

I have one of those files that was kicking around had no idea. 😊

Can I use this method on a mature fig tree that has grown sideways? My neighbors fig tree is growing into the backside of my garage. Unfortunately it is planted on back side of her shed, so I can't stake far away, I can maybe strap it to the crepe myrtle tree next to it to upright it. Maybe?

This was awesome. Thank you!!!! Love from California!

My cats have scratched through the bark on my wisteria. Should I seal it or cover it or both! Right now I just covered it with a pipe insulation.

The worth of this method is preventing boring insects and preventing dry out. Alex shigo would have something to say but i don't think he would hate it

I bought some Pinus canariensis seeds from Sheffield's Seed company, and so far I have a 70% germination rate. They are SUPER EASY to start, just soak in water for 24 hours, then plant them, no cold treatment necessary.

I am using a Fisker saw. That thing is good for thicker branches.

Just have to put the peanut butter on a square of tinfoil and then wrap the trigger with the tinfoil with the peanut butter on the inside. For maximum effectiveness affix the trap to a 2x4 with a screw on the top and bottom. Attach the 2x4 vertically to a piece of 4x4 post

Thank you for this! I just figured out why my parent's tangerine trees have been growing very bad kumquat-like fruits... so when removing the suckers below the graft, what did you use to seal the cut??

I just noticed your large clock after the first vice area sharpening - I love it! Thanks so much for taking the time to help others. I did not know how and was in the middle of getting the branches OFF MY ROOF!!! and I used my kitchen knife sharpener and did it totally wrong - wrong edge - ha ha. I will try again, but in the meantime, I purchased a 2nd blade, so I can sharpen the other while watching/listening to a movie! God Bless you.

We have a >680yo sycamore tree in my town. Love these, especially when they grow straight up - pretty damn majestic! 💪😘

Any damage to foundation from roots?

Clear, concise instructions. Thanks

How does this species differ in shape, growth pattern from the Western Red Cedar?

They don’t seem to do this in well draining soil. We have sand/clay/loam around the liquid amber on our property and the roots are only issue on the very large liquid ambers with poor draining soils.

OK, I get the gist. But it would be good if your hands weren't in the way so you could see more clearly the correct action when sharpening the blade.

Very good point about periodically relaxing the grip. It makes a huge difference on big jobs.

65 yr old arborist here.Tree wound dressing recipes are recorded by early Greek history, thousands of years ago. While working for Bartlett tree experts starting in 1977 we we religiously painted every cut including pole saw cuts.(placing paint brush in hole with spring clip on pole saw head) i saw a salesman order a climber to go back up a big oak cuz he missed painting one. (Called a "shiner") that was. the standard, the paint pot being as important as the pruning saw. After a couple of years we were informed Bartlett (scientists) had completed a 10 year study on tree wounds and dressing and it was discovered that dressing was" merely astetic" having no discernible healing properties. Also discovered we were making cuts to "flush",another erroneous standard, thereby making an unnecessary larger wound. We were instructed to make the cut slightly smaller creating a "heal collar ". Everyone threw out their paint with the relief of never having to use them again. I kept mine an still have it in my truck. When a customer customer asks if I'm going to paint the cuts I hand it to them and say if you can unscrew the cap, ill paint them. Its siezed on tight after 45 years. Mankind has believed in many falsehoods for many years (earth is flat) I stil see tar based tree paint for sale online and at hardware stores (Bartlett had there own product which was boiled to eliminate fungal properties. Some myths never fade completely. Bartlett also stopped the special process of cleaning and sealing lg.cavities because structural weakness leads to eventual failure in spite of expensive treatment. BTW, how is it we went to the moon in1969 but did not invent the upside catsup bottle until 1985 ?...

Great video

Tree planted to low in ground and never put wood chips or forrest products below 10 inches deep.

Fuck it, I’m just buying another saw.

Thanks ! Not many detailed videos like this, explaining how to care for a growing California Live Oak. I did notice some power lines above/close to the tree. Edison in our area can be brutal about pruning anything growing close to a power line so just a reminder to everyone to plant your oak as far as possible from the power lines to avoid the power company hacking it in the future.

Greeting from cedar valley California

Thank you for your clear and precise instructions on using this technique. You also gave us the reason for using this technique. Well done.

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Thanks so much for the great advice. I just got a quote of $2200 from Terminix to seal all entry points and come baack for a year if I heard any activity. The inspector showed me the locations. I'm going to try doing it myself.

Very helpful. Thank you!

Thank you .Great video

I wonder, is the standing water in the space between the tree and the wound not gonna eventually rot the tree? Will the tree close that hole itself? Thanks for the answer in advance, warm greetings from the Netherlands🇳🇱.

Thanks for the information.

What are the ratios and ingredients for the orange oil beeswax? Is it sold in stores?

can you save a cut tree?

schinus terebinthefolia is a kill on sight on the other hand.

This is definetly years late but I am a certified welder, did concrete for a couple years too, although im doing my own landscape side job as of late, more importently a skateboarder! Skating teaches and gives you so many core skills, I've used many of them in trades work, I would'nt be half the worker I am without those skills taught by the board. When I was in welding school I'd use my board to move heavy stuff around too so it's a helpful tool in a pickle as well haha.

Thank you

So helpful. Thanks! A gap has developed between the blade and the counter blade making the shears ineffective. How do I adjust so that the gap is eliminated and the blade comes back in contact with the counter blade? Thanks!!!

Good video. Common sense ain’t so common.

Thank you brother! Will be trying the techniques tomorrow!

I have a 30ft pole saw and i cant even lift it over my head

Thank you!

Hi Gary, thanks for a very clear video. I was hoping to see how to remove, clean and put back the swivel handle as it has become tight on my pruners, and will no longer swivel. Are you able to help?

Maybe you can answer a couple of questions. I have a red maple that seems to be getting strangled by a rope cutting into and grown over in the trunk. Seems all the leafs on the limbs from that point up are turning red. The limb dies shortly after. I’ve considered cutting just below the strangle point and allow the sucker limbs to stay. That would only be 4 1/2 feet from the ground. Would that help? Should I use beeswax to seal this big cut?

The slender silhouette variation of liquidambar styraciflua (i.e., slender silhouette sweetgum), which grows in a 5- to 6-ft wide column 50 to 60 feet high, does not have this issue of root aggressiveness but is most often planted along driveways and roadways, within narrow medians, next to curbs and sidewalks, and even within sidewalks without issues of its roots causing any damage or buckling to the nearby pavement. It is not uncommon to see a line of these about 10 feet apart in a strip of grass only a few feet wide between a sidewalk and a parking lot or in the narrow space between a sidewalk and the street. In fact, this is an ideal planting location for these because they don't disturb the nearby pavement and the poor growing conditions help them keep their tall, slender, straight profile. Maybe it's because of their extremely narrowness canope that their roots do not aggressively spread out but tend to grow deep with a very deep taproot that in areas with relative low water tables between 20- to 50-feet deep tends to reach that water table and be its primary source of water for its hundreds of years of life, and maybe that's particular to where they were discovered growing in Appalachia, this not being a "cultivar," though it's sometimes mistaken as such and called such, but a variation of the American sweetgum that occurred naturally and that had been seen but previously overlooked as a separate variant as it had been believed to be a standard American sweetgum growing narrowly just because of its environment, because of being crowded in by other trees, but when it was brought outside that environment, it was discovered that that wasn't why but that that its extremely narrow canopy of only 5- to 6-feet wide and columnar silhouette that ultimate reaches 50- to 60-feet in height, even taller within forests of taller trees, are its natural traits, another trait distinct of the standard variation of the American sweetgum being that it produces very few fruit, very few gumballs, a trait of the standard American sweetgum people often find to be detracting, so detracting that they sometimes have mature sweetgums removed because of them, but the slender silhouette will produce none until about 20 years of age and then will produce very few, with some years where it produces none, and the few that are produced fall within a very narrow area because of the very narrow canopy and so are not difficult to clean up, like the standard variation of the American sweetgum, which at about the same age, 20 years, starts producing and dropping them in very large numbers over the very large breadth of its canopy, though American sweetgum lovers say that this aspect isn't as bad as people seem to like to crack it up to be, like by calling them "spikey ankle-breakers," as it's very rare for their spikes to be tough enough to pierce through skin and people who have them say they can walk barefoot through them and the gumballs just crush under their weight as they step on them without hurting their feet, but, again, whether it is or it isn't isn't something to be concerned about witht the slender silhouette sweetgum because of how few gumballs they produce and how if any are eventually produced, the few that are fall within only a 5- to 6- foot circle around the tree..

nice/ something you learn everyday. nice to know. thank you