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From: "Roger Snipes" Subject: [IBC] It's Power Line tree trimming time again. Dale, As someone who oversaw the power line reclearing division of a contractor here for a number of years, I have heard these very complaints many times. Snip, mostly since the majority of notes told me what I already said THEY said. But, I do disagree with the later part of this statement. Many years ago the round-over trimming method was the standard approved pruning practice when reclearing lines in urban areas. However when a tree is rounded over as you describe, it subsequently puts out a mass of wild growth (think trunk chop or drastic pruning in your bonsai), which soon is back into the power lines, and is weakly attached to the tree and prone to breaking off. This is where I disagree. The latest accepted standard pruning practices for line clearing are to V out the center of the tree leaving the outside untouched, or trim half of the tree away, leaving the other half untouched, depending on the location of the lines in relation to the tree. While this makes the tree look terrible, it is actually much healthier for the tree, and it avoids stimulating the tree to shoot out wild uncontrolled growth all over. The remaining apically dominant growing branches that are left do their thing In my opinion these "Y" shaped trees with sides ( or one side) left full length but center trimmed down to trunk is a huge "snap-off" in a wind storm waiting to happen and where will the power company be when a side of a tree is laying in your yard for YOU to pay ( possibly the same guys who butchered it to begin with!) to have it removed and cleaned up. You, or they, cannot convince me that a nicely rounded smaller tree is either unhealthy or weak, WHY, because you aren't cutting huge portions right down to the trunk which is where the rotting starts. I've noticed this in MANY local trees trimmed thusly or snapped off at one time. Associating thgis same idea with bonsai....what is weak and/or rotting away on your deciduous bonsai, the outer branches you trim to increase ramification or the "chop" jobs and areas where large sections were removed to increase taper or remove large sections you don't want?? BTW Roger, you sound like you were well trained by the power companies! :) Regards, Dale ************************************************** ****************************** ++++Sponsored, in part, by Boon Manakitivipart++++ ************************************************** ****************************** -- The IBC HOME PAGE & FAQ: http://www.internetbonsaiclub.org/ -- +++++ Questions? Help? e-mail +++++ |
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