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Talking to a logger made me rethink how I prune oaks
I was doing a consult last month on a property near Eugene and the guy running the logging crew walked up while I was marking branches. He said I was leaving too much of the collar when I cut and that I was basically asking for rot to set in. I argued back at first but he pulled out his saw and showed me exactly where he'd cut a similar limb on a freshly felled tree and the callus was way cleaner. Now I'm trying his method on a few test trees, anyone else had a logger give them pruning advice that actually worked better than textbook stuff?
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hugo3726d ago
Dude I saw something similar with a 40 year old white oak behind a bar I used to work at. The owner was cutting everything flush and that tree was solid for decades until a storm took it down. Made me wonder if the textbook stuff is just about reducing risk for lawsuits not what actually works in the long run.
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Logged a property last year and tried his flush cut method on a red oak limb that healed over in one season.
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