Monday, April 29, 2024

Trimming the Giant Live Oak Tree

 When you are good at growing plants there is a problem that arises.  Suppose one of those plants is a giant tree species?  Then it gets really big, bigger than the yard big...  OMG...  My pruning shears can't do that...  I have tree tools also, and they also can't do that...

This is the Live Oak in the back is after I called Daniel at Twin Oak Solutions.  This Live Oak is approximately 40 feet tall and is beyond my capabilities to trim correctly.  Twin Oak Solutions has all the correct tools to do a job like this.  Here is the way it looked before the trim...

We also had them Bob the Crepe Myrtles, and now we have the Lollipop Trees by the patio.  These Crepe Myrtles make a huge mess every year with both the leaves, and white flowers, our Summer Snow.

The part of their service that I really like is the cleanup.  They bring a Chipper along with them, and mulch all the trimmings.  This machine is a Turbo Diesel Chipper, very loud.  But it reduces a massive stack of branches into a pile of mulch in very little time.


They are happy to leave a pile of mulch for you as well.  I'm still using the mulch from the Maple Tree they took out last year.  Here the Stump Grinder is reducing the Maple Tree Stump into a pile of mulch that got used all over the yard.  Mulch is an important part of keeping your white dog white...

They have trimmed every tree in our yard now.  Here is a before and after comparison of the Bradford Pear tree in front.  Periodically trees need to be pruned like this.  I have an example, the Pistache Tree, in front is doing a lot better since we pruned it last year.  This year it produced more growth, and looks healthier than it ever has.