Favorite/least favorite trees to prune/remove

[TheJollyLogger]

Favorite to prune, oak. Worst prune job ever, gotta be an orange tree that hadn't been touched for years. Worst to remove, anything with hypoxolon.

 

[jomoco]

Canary Island date palms are my least favorite tree to trim or remove due to the barbed poisonous 4-6 inch spikes at the frond base.

Here in CA, palms, particularly Washingtonian robustas or Mexican fan palms, have taken out more climbers than any other tree.

Eucs are my favorite trees to prune or remove. Particularly the Citriadoras.

jomoco

 

[Oak Savanna]

Wish we had more oak here. When we do it's mostly pin or burr

I work on a ton of oaks here. I live in an "oak savanna" hence my name on here. A big sand dune with White, red, black, pin and the odd chinquapin oak. They are very slow growing because of the sand. Small small rings. Here is a big ole rotten red oak, squirrel and raccoon hotel!

 

[SecondGenMonkey]

Canary Island date palms are my least favorite tree to trim or remove due to the barbed poisonous 4-6 inch spikes at the frond base.

Here in CA, palms, particularly Washingtonian robustas or Mexican fan palms, have taken out more climbers than any other tree.

Eucs are my favorite trees to prune or remove. Particularly the Citriadoras.

jomoco

I love those date palms. They make me a good amount of money because nobody else wants to do them or does them "right".

I put a tarp around the base when I can.
Then I just hit them about 5-6 inches out from the frond base and then make me a little spot to start taking the bases and carving that pineapple shape people want. Then I switch from a 12inch bar to an 18inch (just swap saws) and have at it. Use a poll pruner on the inside seed pods and I'm done.
Fold the tarp up and help the geoundie fling it either on the debris pile or on the trailer and haul butt out of there. Less fun if I can't get my bucket in there, but the pay is worth it.

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