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Forman on a job in Boise told me to stop flushing every cut and my pruning has not been the same
He said the wound wood on my maples looked like I was trying to erase the branch instead of guiding it, so I started making one clean cut at the collar and stepping back. Two months later the callus tissue is closing way tighter, has anyone else had a lead climber call out their cut style like that?
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jordanc325d ago
That line about the wound wood looking like you were trying to erase the branch really hits home. I had a guy show me the same thing years back, he grabbed a stub I'd left and asked me whose tree it was anyway. What stuck with me is that flushing every cut feels productive because you're doing something, but you're really just slicing into the collar over and over and the tree has to start over each time. One cut at the collar lets the tree wall off in one shot, and that tight callus you're seeing is the tree telling you it worked. The hard part is trusting it, because standing there with your saw down while a stub is still on the tree goes against every instinct when you're getting paid by the hour. But the guys who've been doing it 30 years all cut like that for a reason, and it's not because they're lazy. I still catch myself wanting to clean up a cut and have to physically step back, so you're not alone in fighting that habit.
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