Seems I've read you're "supposed" to do a horizontal through rod, and supported at the sides. How does this compare? Is one or the other a compromise? Thanks for the information.
It's beautiful what you do but that oak is sooooooo leaning over that if it were me i'd just remove it. I get it in your other video where you're supporting the giant limbs of a beautiful upright oak, but when they get like this I'd just grab my saw, cut her down, excavate out the trunk and roots and plant something new ;)
Well, the tree was plenty far from the house that it wouldn't pose a hazard, and it still had some opportunity to add value to the landscape. We'll retain it until it simply cannot be kept any longer. Think of it this way: if you're deciding whether to keep or remove it, you're basically purchasing 5-10 more years of landscape use with a $2000 installation of a brace. I think that makes it worth saving!Also, I'm don't know which municipality you live in, but we have some fairly stringent oak protection ordinances in Los Angeles. Cutting down the tree would be a costly endeavor by itself.But I certainly agree with your point of view in some situations - you have to be the judge on a case-by-case basis on the contributory value of the tree versus the cost of retaining it.
PruneLikeAPro I live in Oregon you can pretty much do anything you want to your own property. I clearcut the invasive junipers and excavated out all the stumps. Brought in new maples, oaks, flowering crabapples, beech's, cottonwoods, cherry trees, apple trees, redbuds, etc. I really like biodiversity but I won't put up with a bad specimen that doesn't have much time left or is overly keeled over. I'm just too finicky that way about symmetry. I know Cali has some serious ordiances. You buy the land but can't do anything to it or you'll get fined. lol Crazy!
Eleven years have passed since the publishing of this video, an update about that tree would be interesting.
Seems I've read you're "supposed" to do a horizontal through rod, and supported at the sides. How does this compare? Is one or the other a compromise? Thanks for the information.
Where are you based out of?
It's beautiful what you do but that oak is sooooooo leaning over that if it were me i'd just remove it. I get it in your other video where you're supporting the giant limbs of a beautiful upright oak, but when they get like this I'd just grab my saw, cut her down, excavate out the trunk and roots and plant something new ;)
Well, the tree was plenty far from the house that it wouldn't pose a hazard, and it still had some opportunity to add value to the landscape. We'll retain it until it simply cannot be kept any longer. Think of it this way: if you're deciding whether to keep or remove it, you're basically purchasing 5-10 more years of landscape use with a $2000 installation of a brace. I think that makes it worth saving!Also, I'm don't know which municipality you live in, but we have some fairly stringent oak protection ordinances in Los Angeles. Cutting down the tree would be a costly endeavor by itself.But I certainly agree with your point of view in some situations - you have to be the judge on a case-by-case basis on the contributory value of the tree versus the cost of retaining it.
PruneLikeAPro
I live in Oregon you can pretty much do anything you want to your own property. I clearcut the invasive junipers and excavated out all the stumps. Brought in new maples, oaks, flowering crabapples, beech's, cottonwoods, cherry trees, apple trees, redbuds, etc. I really like biodiversity but I won't put up with a bad specimen that doesn't have much time left or is overly keeled over. I'm just too finicky that way about symmetry. I know Cali has some serious ordiances. You buy the land but can't do anything to it or you'll get fined. lol Crazy!