Category: Trees

Tree Pictures, Photos, Images with Facts on Many of Types of Trees

Storm Clean Up

Tree Service’s busiest days are after a big winter season storm.  Are you ready?

Storm Tree Service needs

Own a House, Cottage or a Rental Property? Winter brings in heavy snow, Spring is freezing rain, Summer  has striking bolts of lightning … then there is the risk from the storm of the decade!

Insurance Policy might cover some tree and building damage but not every year!

Proactive trimming of trees around your house, buildings and property can be expensive. At times seem unnecessary or hard to justify.

Best do tree trimming and cutting of dangerous limbs on your own time frame, say off season, then you’ll get better service, at cheaper rates and sleep better at night.

PS Extra tree services rates are often applied for emergency rush services, storm clean ups, after hours work, weekend and holiday day service!

Winter’s First Snow

Some love snow … Some do not!

Here are some images of Winter’s First Snow!

Foot steps left in the fresh fluffy snow.  Best type of Snow.
Snow accumulates again the bamboo shoots at the garden’s edge.

All the café visitor’s are gone now that the snow has arrived.

Fresh fluffy snow collects on the weeping white pine tree.

Snow piles a soft white doom on the old pine tree stump in the garden.

Snow fakes pile up on the larch trees branches.

Red chairs are waiting for new visitors in the Spring.

Snow decorates a garden sculpture mounted on a tree stump.

Snow sticks to the Fern Leaf Beech tree’s yellow Fall leaves.

Fluffy snow rests on the colorful green and yellow Cypress Tree leaves.
.Crab Apple Tree’s red fruit stands out against the new white snow

Palm Tree Service?

Palm Tree   Photo of a Cradle to help newly planted or wind blown palm trees to stand and grow straight. Cradle is left on giving the palm tree roots time to establish themselves while holding the palm perpendicular.

PS Getting New Trees off to a straight up start is important.  A consistent eye sore and reminder is to have a wonky tree look in your well landscaped area.

Tree Owner Game

Real tree issues:

Who owns what tree parts and where does the responsibility rest?

Property lines …what can one trim or cut?

What are you liable for if tree cutting goes wrong?

Tree Video is an insight into few of the problems with properties lines and trees that cross them.

 

 

 

Tree Cutting

Tree Felling Fundamentals Tutorial

Demonstration on how to drop a tree eight different ways using different types of notches. Real live example on 140-150 feet high Fir Trees. Informative!



Types of Tree Saw Cuts and video’s time location:
The Humboldt- 1:26​
Gapped Face- 7:23​
Conventional Face Cut- 13:21​
The Bore Cut- 19:27​
The Sizwill- 24:57​
Pulling one with a Rope- 29:17​
Open Faced Notch- 35:32​
Backcut First- 39:33

DYK:  Removing a large stump can be the costly experience.

Tree Cutting Fails Why?

Tree cutting gone wrong: house damage, head injuiry, vehicles destroyed, laughing, screaming, Timber!

DIY Tree Videos: Why Hire a Tree Service Company?


Best TIME to TRIM TREES? Autumn and Winter are the cooler seasons, thus a good time to trim trees.  Trees are in a dormant growth stage so there is less risk to damage or kill the tree.

Your tree is in a lower metabolic activity state conserving energy, therefore there is less risk when cutting tree limbs.

PS What is the Cheapest way to trim a tree … is to let it fall down! Use this tree idea at your own risk!

Tree Cutting Notes:
Falling Trees and dropping large limbs is best done when the frost is in the ground as there is less damage to grass and landscaping.

Removing larger Trees is dependent on where one can drop large branches safely and proximity of equipment to chip the wood for removal.

Firewood Box Design

Wood burns best when dry. A good enclosure helps keeps your wood “ready to use” out of the rain and snow.
No more Wet Fire Wood!!!

Fire Wood Box Design – holds 2 rows of split wood with roof keeping split wood dry ready for fireplace and fit pit

JackFruit Tree

The Jack or Jackfruit tree is the largest tree fruit in the world, with one Jack Fruit weighing up to 100 lbs. Referred to as fenne, jak fruit, jack or jak, it is a species related to the fig, mulberry and breadfruit family.Jack Tree Fruit Photos from Florida, Naples area. These are of a smaller fruit size approximately 10 to12 inches in diameter. 

Wood Bridge Deck

Wood timbers create the platform structure for his older train bridge. Today’s world, wood has been passed over for stronger concrete and steel bridge construction.


Amazing the amount and quantity of wood timber needed. That’s just for one river!

Old Wood timbers from the rail lines can get recycled. Over the years have been sold for retaining walls.

One worthy note is that many wood ties have been dipped in creosote which was used to preserve the life of the railway ties. Creosote has a strong oily smell and could be undesirable near pools and patio areas.

Tree Garden Design

No Rules Garden Design!

Here an Old tree has been cleaned up and trimmed up .. adds visual interest and center piece to this relatively small garden.

Just got to find that narly bent tree and mount it securely in your garden.

P.S. Driftwood could be another possibly simpler alternate?

Planting Maple Tree?

New Maple Tree life starts In the Spring from a seed which has fallen from a mature maple tree in late Fall. 

This little Maple is off to a good start with 2 large leaves. “Grow where your land” said mother tree but this little Maple maybe crowded out in the future.

Maple Tree PS: Your local Garden center offers a fast convenient way to buy a Maple in a size you want – you do not have to wait, but bigger trees cost more $$’s.

Thinking Wood Bench?

Wood Bench with an amazing view!

If you got a view … “Bench it” .. and enjoy the scenery!

Bench view of Mount Rundle in Canada’s Banff National Park, Alberta. The Cree name was Waskahigan Watchi or house mountain because of it’s large size – Elevation: 2,948 m or 9725 feet high.

PS: More benches are needed in our Nations Parks

Forest Walk Spring Images

Images from a sunny spring days walk in the forest. The trail was very muddy in spots, the forest quiet of birds with the sun shining through the leafless trees … everything very brown in the this deciduous forest, but sunlight is refreshing sign of summer days to come.

White paper birch trees standout amongst the darker forest trees in Spring Season.

The forest trail is mucky and slippery as water runs across it – wood logs help bridge the path.

Old cut tree has a habitat hole with new moss growth beside the stump.

Ash tree found marked and fallen to slow down the spread of the Emerald Ash Beetle.

At last we come across a pond. Very quiet of any water animals or birds – too bad.

Big view of the pond, the cedars are growing on the east side of the pond getting the west sun.

Fallen tree at the pond starts the circle of life in the forest providing nutrients back into the soil. 

Ferns grow on the forest floor and are great cover for wild life.

Usual tree that split into two trunks and later fused together years later.

Wood dries out and splits over the dryer winter months as moisture evaporates over time.

Bigger water pond with marsh bulrushes on sides with deciduous forest hill in the background.

Marsh bird hangs on bulrush contemplating it’s next move.

Big image of the pond marsh!

Cedar trees are evergreen trees, retaining leaves year round and populate the wet lowland areas.

Canada geese investigating area bulrushes as possible nest for a future generation of goslings.

Trimming of spruce forest to clean up the trees, as lower branches die off over time due to lack of sun light 

Day on the trails comes to a close as the lower sun shines through the trees.