Video: Proper Tree Maintenance

LIVERMORE — Host, Sarah Rutan: In caring for your landscape, its important to know how to properly prune your trees. Today we’re in Livermore with Diamond Certified Expert Contributor Terry Powell of Terry’s Tree Service to learn more.

Diamond Certified Expert Contributor, Terry Powell: So by cleaning out and thinning and properly maintaining the tree and cleaning out and thinning out of deadwood, cross branches, sucker growth, green growth in most cases, you are allowing the wind to pass through it.

The weight reduction is headed back to the next crotch heading up turning that into the dominant leader staying with ISA arbor standards. This makes the tree a lot healthier, happier and also cuts down on risk of falling due to high winds or extreme heat.

The other thing is that by safety pruning away from the roof line, you are detouring from rats, squirrels, rodents so on and so forth that may make nest in the attic and of course that brings in different bugs and diseases and could even be a fire danger if they get into chewing up the wiring.

So, again by having the trees properly cleaned out and thinned and maintained, you are increasing the property value and you are giving yourself piece of mind.

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