Tree Pruning, Trimming, and Cutting
Paulson Tree Service provides tree pruning & tree trimming services. Pruning your trees on a regular basis keeps them healthy and beautiful. Tree pruning will be done by a professional.
Do you need more light to fall on your lawn so that your grass can grow? If so, your trees may need to be elevated and thinned.
Are large tree limbs growing over your house? We can prune the trees back or remove them so that they do not interfere with your house or structure.
Do your trees need general clean-up? We can prune out dead, hazardous and crossing tree limbs to keep your trees growing strong and healthy.
Our estimator will be happy to walk your property and discuss short- and long-term care of maintaining your property.
Tree Pruning Classifications
Crown Cleaning
Crown cleaning a trees canopy consists of pruning dead & diseased limbs, excess branches, and crossing or rubbing limbs out of the crown of a tree. Each tree may require more or less work depending on many factors such as proximity of tree to resources, tree location, and tree species. An arborist can assess a tree to determine the branches that should be trimmed.
Prune Deadwood & Diseased Limbs
One of the most common and natural techniques of tree pruning, is pruning the deadwood out of a trees canopy. Pruning out the dead and diseased limbs from a tree is good for the health of the tree. Diseased limbs are cut so they cannot further affect the trees live branch structure, and deadwood is removed for safety reasons mostly.
Interior Thinning
Thinning out the interior crossing or rubbing limbs, and sucker growth is a common and acceptable practice. Thinning can help reduce wind resistance in a tree, thus reducing the chances of a windstorm blowing over a tree. It can also increase sunlight for your grass to grow. Tree Trimmers must be careful not to cut too much and form what is called a Lion Tail, where a limb has no foliage except on the very ends.
Elevating
Elevating the lower limbs on a tree is necessary at times when limbs are encroaching on a structure, hang low over a sidewalk or road, or hang low over the grass, etc. Elevating a tree increases the clearance from the ground to the lowest remaining foliage by trimming up the lower branches. When elevating lower limbs on a tree, it is important to take a step back and see the entire tree, so the tree is balanced after the prune.
Shaping
Shaping a tree is a method performed usually by pole clips or shears and involves trimming the entire canopy all the way around the circumference to form a nice round shape. This is often completed on Little Leaf Linden, Bradford Pear, Holly, and mostly smaller sized trees. Keep in mind, when shaping a tree to gain a certain look for your landscape, it will require you to prune the tree more often, usually every couple years if not more.
Clearing Limbs Away from a Structure
Are the squirrels keeping you up at night, or are the branches rubbing against your house? Clearing tree limbs away from your house or structure is a very common task. The branches should be cut properly, back to the nearest lateral limb just outside the branch collar. Generally, clearing limbs away from a structure is completed by certain footage effective to clear the structure but at the same time not harming the tree and keeping its structural integrity.
Crown Reduce
Crown Reducing is a method of reducing a trees height and width by a certain percentage or footage. Topping is not a recommended pruning method, unless there is a safety factor such as a large dead or dying tree. Crown Reduction is usually performed on a tree that is prevalent to storm damage, leaning toward a structure, or a tree that has outgrown the area it was planted in. Drop Crotch pruning is an acceptable method that results in a crown reduction by cutting the longest ‘terminal’ branch on a limb and leaving the shorter ones on that same branch.
Natures Cut
A Nature’s cut involves taking the top or canopy out of the tree for safety concerns. Generally, a large dead tree that is in close proximity of a structure or in a highly occupied area are candidates for a Natures cut. Most of the time, a 20-25’ spar is left standing for the nature to use. The spar that is left standing should be left at a height that is less than the total distance to a structure or area to maintain safety in case it falls.