Pruning mature trees focuses on minimizing limb failure and maintaining tree health and vigor. This means pruning out dead and broken branches, reducing weight where needed, and canopy raising.

Maintaining small diameter interior branches and avoiding large cuts is important. It is too late to make meaningful changes to the structure of the tree.

Trimming

You may have one or more branches, in some cases an entire lead you need removed because it may be either hanging to low over your house, driveway, building, etc.

 

Canopy Raising — Forrest Stump offers a complete range of services for pruning trees. There are several different factors that must be considered when deciding what pruning to do. The first perspective is determining whether you need to prune for tree health, public safety and/or cosmetic reasons. Once these basic needs are understood we can decide how to apply different pruning techniques. Here are some of the techniques we use regularly. Canopy thinning, canopy raising, deadwood removal, building/roof clearance.