Things that Pi$$ me off

[Husky288XP]

Occasionally when looking at tree service ads I see the list of services rendered. I would like to call some of these people up and say:

What is the difference between PRUNING and TRIMMING, please enlighten me?

Do you really possess the knowledge to properly cable or brace a tree, or both?

Finally this one gets me going, some of these tree hacks call themselves a Tree Care Co. This is funny because all I see them do is removals and trim, I mean Top, trees.

 

[treeseer]

What is the difference between PRUNING and TRIMMING,

None that I know of, so....? I use em interchangeably. "Prune" to most people is wrinkly fruit that keeps you regular, so why not say "trim", to stay on the same page?

Judge not, lest ye be judged. I got way too much glass in my house to throw stones at others (tho I can't help lobbing a wee pebble now and then. :blush:

 

[P_woozel]

I've found that most people have no clue what pruningreally is though theye have made bank for years trimming trees. :umpkin:

 

[vharrison2]

You trim a hedge or bushes and prune a tree????

 

[P_woozel]

Youre on te right track, trimming is cutting to mans specifications, height control, building clearance, more light, storm failure prevention, which is the bigest bunch of crap I've heard of yet. Whereas pruning would be say limb selection based on amanagemnt plan for a tree, cutting off diseased limbs, structural work, things that are a benefit to a tree on a given site, and contrary to popular opinion trees do fine with out pruning. its tree companies that do poorly without pruning.

 

[pmuscato]

I like to think of pruning as small cuts, and trimming as heavier cuts.

 

[Stumper]

You are making distictions where there are none by actual definitions. Trimming can be cutting or decorating. Pruning is cutting. There is both good and bad pruning. Trimming has a less professional savor to its sound-It is a generalized term. Putting both words in an ad sounds cheesy to my ear. Redunduncy is too repetitive . The only reason I can see for it happening is: A. The advertiser is making a distinction between synonyms in their own mind (not a favorable impression for me) or B. The advertiser is trying to cater to his customers limited idiom.(Teach don't grovel for pity's sake!) So in answer to the question of why-because the advertiser isnt very astute.

 

[clearance]

Trimming-pruning whatever, get your spurs on, get up the tree and start hacking. I think that P Woozel is correct in the difference between the two terms, utility work is called trimming, working on boulevard trees to help them is called pruning. The public uses these terms interchangebly.

 

[Manco]

You can prune or trim the tree. Same thing. As far as cabling and bracing go, it is almost non-existent in the areas of S.E.USA I have seen. Some of the older trees have cement packed in the cavities.(Not good!)
Come to think of it, the only place I've seen cabling was in Washington D.C. We were sent there a few years ago for an ice storm.

 

[a_lopa]

how about paying double for your saws,puch this chit

 

[P_woozel]

For some of the old technology overelean crap they are selling us now yea paying doulbe would piss me off.

 

[jason j ladue]

i think cabling is a joke about 90% of the time...maybe it's just the people doing it. pruning is the regular maintenence- trimming is what you do to decorate the christmas tree. this is my rifle this is my gun/ this one's for shooting. this one's for fun.

 

[TheTreeSpyder]

i think cabling can restore the counterbalance between sides of a tree that a codominant connection forsakes.

Codominates have fiber pairallel to each other, and can split between these sheets of fiber; other connections have grain running back and forth between the 2 counterbalanced halves; binding them together. A cable will run the same path, at a higher leveraged position, to bind the 2 halves together, to let each counterbalance the other, as a 'good' connection does.

The sum total of all growth and power in a good connection, balanced head is to the support of the limbs. In a codominate connection, the growths are pitted against each other as they compete/ leverage distance reduced, shape of connection changed from round to flatter (round has no leverageable angles; all other shapes do). As head on 1 side grows at angle to avoid the other side and get light,t hey are ech balancing each other in good connection the farther they reach away from each other, in not so good connection,t hey are pulling each out from center together as included bark pushes apart too.

 

[pmuscato]

I agree with Jason on cabling. But if must cabling you should brace also.This will help each system function better.