Category: Tree Service

Tree Service Pictures, Lot of Photos, Images with examples of Different Types of Trees Needing Tree service either Trimming or Cutting. A few Tree Videos of Tree Cutting Gone Bad!

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!

Big Tree Cutting Spring Time

Cutting Big Trees is just plain dangerous to yourself, your property and on lookers?

Large heavy awkward shaped trees are best cut down with large specialized equipment, a tree climber or bucket truck best.

Hiring a Professional Tree Service is going leave it the tree pros saving you unneeded risk and trouble.

Large Tree Cutting! No Fails – Gone Right!

PS.Never will be a family dig “remember that time when you fell that tree …”!

Landscape Property Maintenance

Got the time to buy the landscape equipment? Energy to get out there after work to cut the lawn, do annual spring & fall maintenance … take care of the tree trimming, garden edging, fertilising, aerating, buy the gas?   …. it’s like running a multi department landscaping business!

Too Much?

Maybe so, your backyard is always in need of attention but takes but too much personal time!

If you don’t want get the 100 per cent full property maintenance package consider:

  1. Give a way the lawn cutting, edge trimming and blower work!  The bigger the property the more important is this step. Then do not need a gas lawn mower nor a trimmer   .. always nice to have a gas blower around.
  2.  Gardens Up Keep.  You can keep this area, edging and attending to the garden can be done a need basis.  The larger the garden(s) consider giving away the spring and fall clean ups which take up a lot of man power hours, especially if it is only you,  and generates a lot of plant waste.
  3. Watch others do your Landscape and Property Maintenance from your chair on the front porch.

Life is good!

Backyard Maintenance Program Example: Possible List of  Lawn Applications:

Early spring – fertilizing – get the lawn growing and green
Mid spring – over seeding – fill in the lawn  new grass & thicken thin spots
Late spring – weed control (first of up to 4 visits)  – type/effectiveness depends on local laws

Early summer – weed control & fertilizing if needed
Mid summer – weed control if needed
Late summer – weed control if needed

Early fall – weed control if needed
Mid fall – over seeding & fertilizing

PS Winter snow and iced maintenance can be the same – Lot nicer to let a company blow or plow the snow on need basis, then you buying the equipment & maintain it.  Life is short!

 

 

 

 

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.

Infestation by Gypsy Moth Caterpillar

Will the Gypsy Moth Infestation 2022 be the same as last year?

The Gypsy Moth Caterpillar starts out as an extremely tiny 1/4″ – 60 mm long thin hard to see Caterpillar.  But not for long as they grow quickly eating your broad leaf trees, oak, basswood, maples, larch  … even conifers such as the pine and spruce.

Gypsy Caterpillar Tree infestation will strip a tree of most of it’s leaves.

So what’s the solution?

  1. Tree Service company to inject the tree at the base early before Gypsy Moth Caterpillar has grown too large to kill.
  2. Small trees that are too young, hire a Tree Service to spray the tree’s leaves which kills the Gypsy Moth Caterpillar on contact.  Good option for young and smaller trees that cannot be injected
  3. Extreem infestation, hire flyby air spray to do large areas or multiple neighbours
  4. Wait to Next Year, hope that your trees survive the Gypsy Caterpillar eating frensy

PS The male Gypsy Moth flies around endlessly, not eating, just looking to mate with a female Gypsy Moth.

2022: Moth Pods are laid and ready. If you look at an infected tree’s bark you can see loonie  size whitish-grey pods which contain the eggs to be hatched!

…Hopefully this cold winter might reduce the number of Gypsy Moths in 2022. 

 

Trim Cedars

Best Cedar Tree trimming time is late Fall or early Spring !

A Cedar tree’s growth generally retains the latest shape created … but a new trimming can bring back the design shape you like best.

Cedar trees can be formed into many shapes.  This is an easy DIY project!

When one is pruning cedars,  some prefer to cut the bottom wider than the top to allow sunlight to the lower branches … more of a Christmas tree or cone shape. Cedars are flexible and as shown in the picture above as cedars are trimmed in more of a column shape.

Trimming cedar trees or hedge can be done most any time of the year. The best time is after spring’s 6-8 week cedar leaf growth period.

Cedar Pruning Caution: Start out slowly and trim a little at a time until your shape starts to develop.  Cutting to deeply into the cedar you will run into the interior branches that have little or no foliage … then you end with a hole in you shape .. not so good!

Tools need are a sharp pair of hand shears for smaller trees … some smaller cedar hedges can be done with shears but with larger cedar hedges one needs an electric or gas shears.

If you have large and tall cedar hedges consider using an arborist as there is some danger and/or skill involved.

Advantages to regular annual pruning is that it keeps the cedar’s shape you want. Regular trimming maintains your cedar’s size and the garden area they take up.

Landscape Assistant?

John Deere Gator can make a enormous help with landscaping .. real work horse for hauling earth, brush, rocks … biggest bonus you’ll get bigger jobs finished sooner .. especially when you work by yourself!

Landscape considerations:

1. 4×4 wheel drive great for slopes and wet conditions

2. Over sized tires help prevent tearing up your lawn and leave less deep track trails

3. Window shield keeps rain out and protect yourself from branch whacks in the face

4. Electric tip is nice to have .. JD Gator small dump box, manual lever tip works well.

5. Trailer hitch allow you options to pull a trailer .. trees, branches

6. Electric Winch .. pull yourself out or pull other things

7. Other features: Hard doors, heater, wiper blades, mirrors, radio, LED light bar, snow plow, Camouflage vinyl overlay ..

Honey Locust Tree

Popular landscaping tree used by urban municipalities and commercial property owners. Grows quickly and has small leaves which the wind can blow around reducing the need for large clean ups in Fall.

Locust Trees of the Honey Type, leaves go honey yellow in the Autumn ..

These are diseased trees and need of replacing!

Honey Locust Tree

Forest Trees to be Cut Down

These Forest Trees have been tagged for cutting down.  Why you might ask?

These are ash trees and are subject to emerald ash borer infestation which kills the trees by getting under the bark. Cutting down the trees in the forest is a plan to control the spread of the emerald ash borer (EAB )infestation.

Cabbage Beach Palm

Cabbage Palm Tree leaning low most likely due to high winds.

View of a Cabbage Palm from a different angle.Cabbage Palm fronds; green one are newer and older fronds are the brown color.

View of a Cabbage Palm tree up the trunk.

Beach Cabbage Palm washed up from strong storms FL

Roots of the Cabbage Palm Tree.

Closer up view the roots of a Cabbage Palm.