New Pruning Animations

treeseer · Mar 21, 2006

Hey you gotta take a new look at Ed Gilman's site:

http://hort.ifas.ufl.edu/woody/pruning/

He's added some stuff--now a lot of the pruning pages have animations. This site was leading the field before, but now it is way ahead. Very clear, very accurate and very tree-friendly.

Tree Machine · Mar 21, 2006

Excellent site! Thanks Treeseer.

TreeLady · Mar 21, 2006

Thanks for posting that link. Very nice site with alot of good info.

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M.D. Vaden · Mar 22, 2006

It's interesting. I think I came across it last week.

I've never had problems with large lower limbs like he talks about. Not unless someone came in and "lion tailed" them at some point.

Every low limb I've seen on a tree was excellent as long as it had:

1. Sufficient growth to support it.

2. A strong "U" union of attachment.

Many of my customers like to have trees with large lower limbs for character and sometimes for climbing trees.

That one photo he has in that website of a tree in the lot with the big low limb is a fairly wierd looking plant - that's for sure. Not much inner foliage on it: as if someone pruned too much off the inside part of it at some point.

He keeps some nice photos on the pages. I always appreciate cross-cut dissections of trees in images.

Nickrosis · Mar 23, 2006

He's a great guy, and I agree that it's an excellent site.

One of the irons in the fire is to come up with pruning specs for our company that range from trees to shrubs, using the ANSI standards but utilizing our own graphics and examples. This is where I have to step up my Illustrator drawing skills...

pbtree · Mar 24, 2006

treeseer said:
Hey you gotta take a new look at Ed Gilman's site:

http://hort.ifas.ufl.edu/woody/pruning/

He's added some stuff--now a lot of the pruning pages have animations. This site was leading the field before, but now it is way ahead. Very clear, very accurate and very tree-friendly.

That is an excellent site - thanks for sharing. There are lots of good photo's to go along with the explanations, making for a good read.