Hi again it's Jason from Fraser Valley Rose Farm and today I'm gonna take the opportunity
during the off season to to print some limbs off of trees we're I think they'll be getting
in the way case in point this limb right here is planted over top of the new planting of a
rose that I placed here that rose a vigorous one they're going to interfere with each other
in the not doing it yet but I want to take this one off preemptively I also would remove limbs
were I see them interfering with walking paths so this method I'm gonna use here is what was taught to me
in horticulture school is the safe way to take those limbs down so you don't damage the tree but for me
to show that to you I have to strip off the leaves first closer up view now and the thing I want to
point out is that this limb is bearing weight from gravity everything out further this way
from the tree is putting weight on the section here so if I were to just cut it straight from
top to bottom what may happen is you get to abort this point here the weight pulls down
it cracks the branch and stripped the bark all the way up to the trunk and damages the main tree
that's not what we're after the first cut we're gonna make is going to be about here
it's going to go upwards is gonna bring come of the from the bottom of the truck like this.
That should do it it's about halfway through and then the next cut I'm gonna take
is going to go straight through down here but that takes away the risk
so the furthest you could break back to is this point here.
And you can see that's exactly what it did it broke back to that point here
so what I'm using for this cut is this portable chainsaw this is sent to me by Kebtek the same
people sent me a hand pruner earlier on and that's the reason why you're going
to see at the front end of this video that they're going to say includes paid promotion
they haven't paid me to talk about this but they did send me the free sample so I can try it out
and it's going to help me get a whole bunch more pruning done today so now that you've
done this cut here and taking the weight off the limb it's an easy matter to cut it back to the
to the caller here by color what they mean is you're not trying to make a flush cut that
just straightens out the whole limb here what you looked trying to make is you try to look for where
it flares out here and then just a bit beyond that that's where you want to make your cut.
And there you go it made a nice clean cut against the against the trunk here just leaving a little
bit of that flare behind it and it did damage this little branch in behind here but I'll clean
the cleaning that up anyway. Well in getting you a close up of these nice clean cuts here what I'm
also going to mention is about the use of pruning paint or pruning seal and if for those unfamiliar
what that is is it's either a paint or an asphalt plant this fleece along this surface here with the
idea that what it would do is act like a bandaid and help the tree with healing and protected
from the incursion of insects or diseases now from her cultural point of you this has been debunked
along time ago already they did tests where they either had sealed or unsealed pruning cuts of
limbs like these and found that the ones that were unsealed did better overall for the health of the
plant so what I'm gonna do is leave it just like this unsealed and I'd recommend you do the same.
Well it looks to you like I picked up some sawdust on my arms and maybe on my hair
that's absolutely true I spent the next hour after that first successful cut going around
the yard and looking for all of the limbs that have been obstructing my paths and walkways
and a growing into other plants and taking those off quite quickly this thing has done a great job
I have to say Kebtek sent me that hand pruner on previous video and that's good for cuts up
to about an inch this one here's been taking things up to 3 or 4 inches with no problem at
all maybe even a little bit more than that if you work the angles a little bit the battery
lasted well and the overall it's making nice clean cuts all over the yard took what would have been
a full day of working compressed into an hour easy so I'm I'm pretty happy with what I got done
I hope you learned something today with the method of cutting limbs off of trees and if you have any
questions about either of those topics please drop those into the comments below the video.