What Type of Trees?

Streyken

After seeing the video and pics of others, I am curious as to what are the most common trees you work with on a regular basis.


Mine are:
Western hemlock (Tsuga heterophylla)
Douglas-fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii)
Red alder (Alnus rubra)
Western redcedar (Thuja plicata)
Bigleaf (maple Acer macrophyllum)
Black cottonwood (Populus balsamifera ssp. trichocarpa)

http://www.for.gov.bc.ca/hfd/library...book/trees.htm

Obviously there are many other trees I cut, but the above represents approximately 80% of my work.

I find the work procedures and techniques that are developed to deal effectively with different types of trees and in different areas fascinating, and even though not of necessity, I like to see if those techniques can be incorporated in my small world of tree care.

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Trimmin' bush and caring for flowers is good 'n' all...
but sometimes ya gotta let the big wood fly and pound the garden.

Sean Freeman

Species most commonly worked on up here;

Peltophorum pterocarpum
Albizia lebbeck
Albizia saman
Mangofera indica
Khaya senegalensis
Ficus benjamina
Euc platyphylla
Euc (corymbia) tessallaris
Euc (corymbia) torelliana

These would represent around 90% of the trees I've worked on, the other 10% does include some unusual natives....and I'm not including palms.

TrevMcRev

For us here in S/E Melbourne, Victoria - Australia.

Exotics-Some Removals, mostly General Pruning, Crown Reductions, Weight Reduction, Remedial Pruning etc;
Liquidambar styraciflua Liquidambar
Quercus palustris Pin Oak
Quercus robor English Oak
Ulmus Glabra Lutescens Golden Elm
Betula pendula Silver Birch
Alnus jorellensis Evergreen Alder
Fraxinus excelsior Common Ash
Cupressus macrocarpa Monterey Cypress

Natives-Mixture of above pruning and removals, usually due to structural issues.
Eucalyptus nicholii Narrow Leaved Black Peppermint
Eucalyptus botryoides Southern Mahogany Gum
Eucalyptus cameldulensis River Red Gum
Eucalyptus globulus Blue Gum
Eucalyptus saligna Sydney Blue Gum
Eucalyptus viminalis Manna Gum
Eucalyptus sideroxylon Red Ironbark
Corymbia (Euc) ficifolia Flowering Gum
Corymbia (Euc) citriodora Lemon Scented Gum
Corymbia (Euc) maculata Spotted Gum
Agonis flexuosa Willow Myrtle
Grevillea robusta Silky Oak
Acmena smithii Lilly Pilly

Plus all sorts of Wattles, Pittosporums, Melaleucas,Hakeas, Banksias etc for general issues like neighbours, houses, gutters etc.

Fortunately......
Not too many Palms

Sean Freeman

You luck bast#@d!!

TrevMcRev

It is interesting how we get used to working with a certain group of species to some extent.

Drop me off on the other side of the world, or even our country for that matter and it would take some adapting to be efficient at what you take for granted working with trees you know inside out (literally!)

TrevMcRev

Golden Elms are actually a bloody difficult tree to do good pruning work on believe it or not.

The form of them how pretty well every branch is really a little co-dominant stem and the same length as the one next to it makes for some tricky reduction work. A lot of people F$%@ them up! Not long ago we had to try and restore one that one of Melb's very well known arbor co mpanies had "reduced" by totally lions tailing leaving major long limbs that started failing left right & center. Other advice the owner received was that pollarding would now be the only way of saving it and i could see their point.

We chose length/end weight reduction but warned it wouldnt be as ideal as it should because most of what you should have pruned back to was gone!
Gladly it came up way better than i were even expecting.

A species best left alone like your fave down punt rd

Sean Freeman

Very good points Trev, still I'd love to climd up into a big mature Elm again, just for a rec climb mate I'd have a smile on my face all day long after that..

TrevMcRev

I were just about to ask how big your ones of these are, then i hit that link.
Holy crap-60m

These are in some melbourne gardens but i havent seen one over about 12m But our climate is a bit different.

Eric Frei

Trev, many eucs are the same, very hard to reduce as the branches are all the same length. Thinning becomes more accepted.

I have some juvenile leopard trees I look after and tested the ole heading back a few leaders here and there. Trying to contain the size of some of the longer branches.

Well, the branches I was cutting with telescopic loppers maybe only 10mm to 15mm dia. They were like 10 foot long sticking up like car aerials, so I figured I'd try to head a few back.

All that happened was they reshot from the end I cut but with a kink now and steamed on, no different to others I left.

Many trees are like that so I know exactly what you mean.

Boa, the umbrella tree is a classic, what choices do you have to head them back? Yep, a lop job most of the time. Cut the tips off whilst it's growing, makes no difference.

So even if you get onto these trees young still cant hold them down.

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Sean Freeman

Bloody Umbrella shrub with ambitions beyond its station if you ask me, horrid things, once had to remove a big bugger next to domestic supply line..seems like people love planting them close to lines! Just like climbing celery brittle buggers.

The point you make about Caesalpinia is interesting, have seen the same up here from branches cut back as you say even ones that an attempt to head back properly. In fact saw my first failure of a main union in C ferrea a few weeks back, like Tamarindus usually consider tehm almost unbreakable.

Drouin Tree Service

Pretty much the same as TrevMcrev,pretty much everything.

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Streyken

This is exactly what got me thinking about this. Most of the large trees here have an excurrent growth habit. The only time I get to really swing around in a single tree is when working a large maple or beech. Every once in a while a large multi-stem cherry will appear. Another thing is that almost all the wood here is bucked into firewood lengths. This is almost always done from the top down, so by the time I reach the ground, it's time to move on. I do a lot of blocking.

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Trimmin' bush and caring for flowers is good 'n' all...
but sometimes ya gotta let the big wood fly and pound the garden.