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Four generations of doing this has produced a few opinions. Here are the ones worth writing down, on safety, pruning, and keeping trees alive in a climate that does not make it easy.
Getting your trees ready before the season turns
The window for useful storm pruning closes the moment a system shows up on the radar. Here is what actually reduces risk, and what just makes it worse.
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Safety and accident prevention are not the same thing
One is a folder in the ute. The other is what you actually do at the base of the tree. Only one of them stops people getting hurt.
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Pruning: why every cut has to earn its place
Every cut is a wound and every leaf lost is photosynthesis gone. Good pruning removes the minimum live tissue for the maximum result.
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Ladders will kill you if you give them half a chance
The most dangerous piece of equipment in tree work is not the chainsaw. It is the thing you climbed to get to it.
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Mulch: how deep, how close, and why it matters more up here
In a climate that swings from concrete to soup, mulch is the cheapest thing you can do for a tree. It is also easy to do badly.
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Does this tree actually need to come out?
Plenty of trees get removed that never needed to. Plenty get left standing that should have gone two wet seasons ago. Here is how the call gets made.
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