Few things are more frustrating than a messy front yard. In addition to disrupting your curb appeal, overgrown, messy landscaping can also harbor pests and make it look like you don't care about your property. Fortunately, tidying up your yard doesn't have to be difficult. I have spent years learning more about landscaping, and this blog is all about how to become a landscaping enthusiast. Check out these articles about fun topics like planting flowers, perfecting pruned trees, and decorating your yard with whimsical additions. After you know more about landscaping, your yard might become the talk of the town.
Care of your yard's landscaping vegetation includes the lawn, shrubbery, and trees. However, the condition of the latter has an enormous impact on your yard's condition and your property value. With mature healthy trees in your yard, you will have multiple benefits from their growth with shade, improved air, habitats for wildlife, and prevention against soil erosion through their root systems. However, proper care of trees includes trimming them back when necessary and also removing them when it is essential. Here are some recommendations to help you safely and successfully trim and improve the health of your tree.
Use the Right Equipment
The branches on your trees may need trimming and removal, especially if part of the tree has died, is growing up into nearby power lines, is diseased, or is at risk of falling. Evaluate your tree's trimming needs to see if it is something you can handle on your own. With the right equipment, you can safely do so from the ground level. With a pair of long-handled loppers, you can reach up into the tree to remove smaller limbs. Then, with a long-handled pole saw trimmer, you can extend your reach to cut off tree limbs that are higher and larger in circumference. A telescopic chainsaw is also a great option when you need to trim off high branches.
If you do need to climb up into the tree to reach higher limbs for trimming, be sure you wear the proper safety harness attached to the tree to protect you from falling. You can find arborist equipment from home and garden retailers or online, which provide you with everything you need from work gloves and branch snippers to safety harness and carabiners for safe climbing.
Hire a Professional
When you are in a situation where you have a large tree that needs trimming, especially in its upper branches, the height of your tree should prompt you to arrange for a professional arborist. An arborist will be able to handle these high altitude trimming projects and safely fell limbs or an entire tree without causing any injury to themselves and anyone around the area, and not cause any damage to nearby structures.
Removing a large dead tree branch from the upper limbs of a tree will fall with enough force to damage a vehicle or to take out a fence. And you don't want that type of risk to be hanging around your own DIY tree trimming project. Your professional arborist will have the safety harness, ropes, and equipment to remove the branch or the entire tree. For more information, contact a company that provides arborist supplies.
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