Board Certified Master Arborist and Qualified Tree Risk Assessor here, AMA.Lets please not turn this thread into a chainsaw/ tree cutting dick measuring contest, we have enough of those. Lets focus on the plants. Pic related is a girdling root I removed from an eastern white pine located on a residential property. My question for you guys is on chisel sharpening. I use a few different size chisels to remove roots like this, but they obviously get dull frequently using them down in the soil near rocks and such. I don't want to put the effort in sharpening them like I do my nice chisels in the wood shop because these get beat up constantly. Right now i just use a flat file from my chainsaw sharpening kit. any better ideas?
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>>2989978Improper mulching is a common cause of this. please don't mulch around the trunk of your trees, its probably the most common reason for tree decline and death that I see in the landscape. Mulching trees is highly recommended, but it should only be a layer about 2"- 4" deep, not piled around the trunk. The larger the diameter of the mulch ring, the better.
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>>2989990Mature trees or sprouts from trees that were previously cut down?
I ripped out 2 large elm stump and roots using an axe, sledge, pry bars, and 2 wedges. Just dig up a section and wedge the fuck out of it until something gives.
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>>2990133>>2989990You will be battling poplars for ever. They are rhizomes any little piece of root will sprout a full tree. I'm currently dealing with silver poplars and they have many, many sucker roots. I'm digging them up and ripping them out, but I'm also fully rescaping my yard.
i too am a BCMA + TRAQ; did you get emails re:urban/municipal forestry and the utility forestry exam reworks? i thought they were both trivially easy and not really indicative of urban and utility arboricultureeither way, what do you do specifically for work? I'm in the union in california and currently make $69.49/hr, though that will soon increase to ~$77+/hr if the current contract gets approved
