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no it does not, i included drilling as an example. i agree with burnam that nature gets by just fine without any intervention from us. but, just fine for a forest is not necessarily just fine for a residential tree. i think pruning is necessary and vital to the health and longevity of urban...

this was a dig out the fill and quick visual inspection. now we can go back and do a more thorough investigation, take measurement, drill, and make some recommendations to the client. the rot you can see in the pic above the girdling root is about 12"x8".

"By cut, I meant remove; sorry. Removing the visible sgr looks like a nobrainer; relatively small. So after cutting the one, there will be others. So cut them, too, in time...what other kind of damage do you mean? " i was referring to to the extensive root and trunk rot due to the fill dirt...

there is, in my opinion, an important distinction between thinning and pruning. thinning is a type of pruning but not all pruning involves thinning. i still think that, outside of some very specific circumstances, thinning alone holds little or no benefit for mature trees. now, if thinning is is...

its a native tree, older than the house. they buried it so bad the only roots it has left are adventitious roots. there's no scale in the pic but the trunk is about three and a half feed dbh.

but i just had to spend half an hour getting the river rocks AWAY from the trunk!:lol:

we also did a root crown on the largest oak on the property (seen behind and to the right of the second tree), the Menlo Park boys went by again as we were digging (at 3:30) and told us the tree was city property and were we removing it:lol::lol:this is what the root crown (or lack thereof)...

if it were up to me, i would not thin trees at all. deadwood and some end weight on heavy branches. trees can take care of themselves, but we are selling a product and customers expect quantitative (quantity of brush that is) results for their money. jay, yes, i try to take into account...

2nd tree from the other side

i too think less is more. my boss has other ideas however. i try to strike a balance. these are both coast live oaks. my crew did the first tree while i did the second. i try to prune in such a was as to not see a bunch off big cuts, and no watersprouts down the road. the reason i ask is that...

two before and afters. first tree i would say yes, a bit. 2nd tree i wonder what yall think.