That client yesterday who asked about branch angles made me rethink everything

Had a guy point out that I was cutting a scaffold branch wrong because the angle was too steep, and he was an old horticulture professor who just walked up while I was working... now I'm second guessing all my pruning cuts from the last 5 years. Has anyone else had a random stranger drop knowledge that actually made sense?

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the_aaron25d ago

Yeah except "scaffold" is a term for pruning cuts, not "scaffold branch" like you're building something. I think you meant scaffold limb or scaffold branch is fine but the word scaffold alone is the tree term. Anyway yeah random old dudes are usually right about pruning angles.

rowanp1524d ago

Wait but if "scaffold" on its own refers to a pruning cut and not the branch itself, then how do you refer to the branch in casual conversation without it sounding wrong? Like when someone says "that scaffold is too low" at a job site, everyone in my crew knows they mean the branch not the cut. Feels like the technical crowd gets hung up on semantics while the old dudes just get the job done.