What's your bread & butter tree?

[1I'dJak]

Alder feeds my family... well makes up a significant portion of my residential climbing...here's a typical job...what about yous guys?

 

[Rickytree]

Eh 1I'dJak, probably say the silver maple for around here. I have a question about your pic's how come you went so high up? and what's all the rope for? Just asking cuz there a 1000 ways to skin a cat, but I tend to just throw them through the chipper.

 

[1I'dJak]

the upper limbs were hanging close to/over a single phase...Just to be certain i took a small top I could manhandle no problem...I've had a run in b4 with a powerline and don't want one ever again...the branches over the line were tip tied and pulled away...

 

[1I'dJak]

oh yeah and i've got two lanyards on my belt...a 15' and an 18'...i keep meaning to buy shorter ones but those are what i need for forestry climbing... needless to say i got alot dangling from me....

 

[Rickytree]

If you don't mind sharing the story of the powerline. I got one posted under the craziest thing you've done up a tree.

 

[TreeBot]

Big neglected pin oaks. Sliver maple comes in an unfortunate second.

I would prefer to spend more time in red maples and the white variety of oaks, but that's how it is.

 

[logantree]

I'd say large white pines around here, and large poplars are a close second. ALWAYS over a house, building, fence, etc.

 

[fishercat]

white pines and swamp maples here.

once in a while a rotted birch or buttonball.

this year we did a lot of oaks for some reason.seemed unusual.

 

[TreeTopKid]

In England the bread & butter tree was Leyland Cypress x Cupressocyparis leylandii ( not really a Cypress) those things grow extremely quickly. Those things paid for my first house. They get the hell topped out of them in England.

Once they get to 12ft tall they will grow on average 3-6ft per year. They are lovely to cut soft wood, and they chip very easily due to there long straight nature. Taking 20ft out of a 60 footer is worth about 180.00 pounds, they are planted in avenues so they are a license to print money.

No easy cash cow down here too much competition!

 

[tamadrummer]

Oak, oak and more oak with a few Slash pines thrown in for fun.

There are tons of CRAP trees like Rain Trees and Brazilian Pepper trees here as well.

There is little money to be had in the business because very few carry licenses and insurance for the work yet many still do it for peanuts.

I sub out 80% of my tree work but the small stuff I do on my own. I love the work and want to hold an ISA cert and I am taking lessons on climbing now.

Just need an MS200 T now.

 

[Rickytree]

tamadrummer get the 16" bar but if you are doing smaller stuff maybe the 14" Right on that's a great saw actually have it tattooed on my arm.

 

[Mikecutstrees]

quite a bit of diversity here, but I'd say sugar maples are most common. red oaks sometimes too..... Mike

 

[tomtrees58]

red oaks 48 to 60 " 125 " tom trees

 

[M.D. Vaden]

Pruning or removals the size of the Mount Fuji Flowering Cherry tree in the first image. Far more pruning than removal though.

And ornamental landscape trees like the Japanese maple following. Before in the first pic - after in the other two pics.

I like pruning best of all my work, whether design, ponds or landscaping.

 

[(WLL)]

Pruning or removals the size of the Mount Fuji Flowering Cherry tree in the first image. Far more pruning than removal though.

And ornamental landscape trees like the Japanese maple following. Before in the first pic - after in the other two pics.

I like pruning best of all my work, whether design, ponds or landscaping.

wow nice trees. i like doing big gurthy beeches.

 

[TreeTopKid]

Pruning or removals the size of the Mount Fuji Flowering Cherry tree in the first image. Far more pruning than removal though.

And ornamental landscape trees like the Japanese maple following. Before in the first pic - after in the other two pics.

I like pruning best of all my work, whether design, ponds or landscaping.

That Cherry is awesome who wouldn't want that as the center piece in the garden.

 

[TimberMcPherson]

Pruning or removals the size of the Mount Fuji Flowering Cherry tree in the first image. Far more pruning than removal though.

And ornamental landscape trees like the Japanese maple following. Before in the first pic - after in the other two pics.

I like pruning best of all my work, whether design, ponds or landscaping.

That Cherry is awesome who wouldn't want that as the center piece in the garden.

The trees great, but I dont go for hanging gnomes in them

 

[Sunrise Guy]

Live Oaks account for about 65% of my business. Once Oak Wilt destroys most of them down here, as I believe it will in the next 10-20 years if a true cure isn't found, then Cedar Elms will fill the void. I do a fair number of them, and Pecans, right now. Arizona Ashes round out my list. If the EAB makes it here, those Ashes wil be gone.

 

[Sunrise Guy]

If you PhotoShop the top of the guy in the Cherry Tree out of the picture, it looks like the tree has an eye, smack dab in the middle. Weird.

 

[outofmytree]

Sob.

I have 1 day of the week dedicated to lousy rotten palms. ARGGHHHHHH.

Ah well, it pays the bills.