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Tree Pruning

Tree Pruning

Pruning is important to the health, structure, aesthetics, and safety of trees.

T&T Tree Services offers several different types of pruning to suit your needs.

Trees are complex living organisms whose growth, appearance, condition and longevity are greatly influenced by environmental factors. Pruning practices generally improve the health, structure, aesthetics, and safety of trees. Like humans, tree species vary in their characteristic and requirements, as each has specific shapes, branch structures, and canopies.

The four standard levels of pruning are:

 

CLASS III Hazard Pruning

Hazard Pruning is recommended where safety considerations are paramount.

Hazard Pruning consists of the removal of dead, diseased, decayed, and obviously weak branches, two inches in diameter or greater.

CLASS II Standard Pruning

Standard pruning is recommended where aesthetic considerations are secondary to structural integrity and tree health concerns.

Standard pruning consists of the removal of dead, dying, diseased, decaying, interfering, objectionable, obstructing, and weak branches, as well as selective thinning to lessen wind resistance.

The removal of these branches is to include those on the main trunks, as well as those inside the leaf area. An occasional undesirable branch up to one inch in diameter may remain within the main leaf area where it is not practical to remove it.

CLASS I Fine Pruning

Fine pruning is recommended for premium quality work with emphases on aesthetic considerations in addition to structural integrity. Fine pruning consists of the removal of dead, dying, diseased, decayed, interfering, objectionable, obstructing, and weak branches, as well as selective thinning to lessen wind resistance.

The removal of branches includes those on the main trunks, as well as those inside the leaf area. An occasional undesirable branch up to one-half inch in diameter, as described above, may remain within the main leaf area to its full length when it is not practical to remove it.

COSMETIC PRUNING

The specific action to remove a certain limb, raise branch levels, clear wires, shape or thin a tree are generally at the customer’s request: clear a fence, limbs over roof, limbs over pool, etc.