What's your bread & butter tree?

[M.D. Vaden]

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

You know that's a boy - right?

The tree is about 50' wide.

I was guessing that you were kidding.

 

[Slvrmple72]

Silver Maples and deadwooding Pin Oaks Cherry, Beech, Sycamore, and Blue Spruce was the flavor of the year for 08. Smells like xmas run through the chipper

 

[M.D. Vaden]

wow nice trees. i like doing big gurthy beeches.

Understandable.

I planted 3 purple beech at our place.

Decades to go though, before they become big and girthy.

 

[JeffL]

Red Oak and Sugar Maple.

Once you make it out of the first 5-10' of branches, I love some nice big pin oaks, fun climbing. Its the young, unkept ones that make me wish I never got out of bed.

 

[Nailsbeats]

Silver Maple for us, we hack em' and remove them six ways to Sunday around here.

 

[tree MDS]

At my old place I started bringing home wood to sell later on, seemed like 90% of the pile was red Oak. Late last year I started bringing wood back to the shop again...its starting all over again.

Theres a mixture but still mostly large Red Oak.

 

[Ed Roland]

Bread and butter would be Pinus taeda here in central S.C. Construction damaged this pine and the Dendroctonis beetles were gaining a foothold.

 

[dafunk]

dirty Austrian Pines for us, seems like 3 days of the week I'm chipping up gnarly pine branches getting covered in sap

 

[Little Monkey]

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.

very nice work 10 outa 10.

 

[Little Monkey]

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!

true :censored::censored: cypress, its love hate stuff ,, love em coz good staple work , hate em coz they are :censored: and do so many of the :censored:,

 

[booboo]

Sugar maple and hemlock, with some beech, red oak, white pine, and silver maple thrown in. Love climbing mature sugar maples!

 

[JeffL]

Love climbing mature sugar maples!

x2

Thats how my day will be spent tomorrow, re-setting cables, and finishing up a little pruning!

 

[ozzy42]

wow nice trees. i like doing big gurthy beeches.

Never mind,I'm not even going to say it. Would be way too easy.


Seriously.I liked the cherry tree,that other thing looked like cousin it.


Id have to say the bread and butter in the winter time down here is what everybody hates to do: palms,or as I've seen them refered to on other sites: shiite sticks .Hate every dang one of them,but it pays the bills b/c they never stop growing.....ever






























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[jar1zx]

lots of pine tree's here in south arkansas

 

[pdqdl]

Bread & Butter ? Silver maples & siberian elms (dead wood, neglected, look bad, roof clearance, etc), neglected pin oaks (mostly raising & thinning), and dead austrian & scotch pines (Diplodia tip-blight; don't you love it!).

Big money: cottonwoods, especially over houses. Everybody seems to hate them, and the price goes up. They are the biggest trees in our area.

 

[woodchux]

Water oaks and loblolly pine mostly...