Just driving around down here the past couple of days, I am noticing plenty of dead and dieing trees around. The other day I had to remove a couple of huge branches of a chinese elm that had just dropped in the heat. The branches just seemed to die off on what is a perfectly healthy (and gorgeous) specimen of this tree.
Another client has a couple of dead Silver Birch trees, another with a sizeabe Qld Brush Box tree that is dead as. Palms everywhere even the well watered ones also seem to be dropping plenty of fronds. Somebody has got to tidy it all up thats where we come in ;$$$.
Trouble is dead trees are much much more difficult to work on. They are less stable, using 1-2-3 pruning cuts does not gauruntee a nice neat scar as the holding wood lets go unpredictably. Makes the whole process much more difficult. Does anyone have any tips on how best to work on these - cutting method? Perhaps different chains on the chainsaw? That gives a bit better control over where the tree might fall and a neater appearance if just pruning away dead bits without a cherry picker? |