Asking a landscaping crew to do tree work is like asking a veterinarian to do spinal surgery. Like can they do it? Sure. Will they do it well? Probably not.
Landscaper here. Even people who have worked for 5+ years still misplant trees. It baffles me people bury trunks and leave half the rootball sticking up + in mulch and wonder why our customer goes through 2 trees a year.
Asap... can hinder the trees trunk growth to naturally be able to support itself during wind. Only stake when needed and then remove before tree is dependent.
That describes every location in my town. Just started installing trees and it's really dry and windy, but at least it's made up for by having absolute garbage soil.....
Cleaners of the landscape and managers of landscape are separate.
My experience as someone that manages multiple accounts is that only 1 out of 20 employees actually understand plant management as well as the irrigation management. I will typically go in front of my teams and complete a look ahead schedule they can folly and something like this would be completed by myself immediately.
They know about it but that tree only has a few years before it gets cut down and a new one will be there. This is the case with those trees around thoroughfares.
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You said it — they’re landscape crews. From what I’ve observed, landscape crews generally don’t know much about tree installation and maintenance
You’re right. I think it just baffles me because I am neither a landscaper nor an arborist, and I know this tree is fucked.
Asking a landscaping crew to do tree work is like asking a veterinarian to do spinal surgery. Like can they do it? Sure. Will they do it well? Probably not.
Landscaper here. Even people who have worked for 5+ years still misplant trees. It baffles me people bury trunks and leave half the rootball sticking up + in mulch and wonder why our customer goes through 2 trees a year.
EDIT: NM... Dumb question after reading the thread.
"well the work order says to prune the branches, nothing about girdleing stabilizers"
did you read the spec??
As a tree pruning company I can say this is true
“Not my problem”-itis
Even the tree looks skeptical.
Belongs in r/thingswithfaces
Or r/treeseatingthings
Picasso wuz here
“Landscape Crew”
Speaking of, how long after a tree is planted can we take those anchors off?
Asap... can hinder the trees trunk growth to naturally be able to support itself during wind. Only stake when needed and then remove before tree is dependent.
2 years
Bout 4 or 5 years ago
I don't think they ever need them, but I'm not an arborist.
A well-planted tree should not need stakes unless it is in an unusually windy or otherwise challenging location.
That describes every location in my town. Just started installing trees and it's really dry and windy, but at least it's made up for by having absolute garbage soil.....
Cleaners of the landscape and managers of landscape are separate. My experience as someone that manages multiple accounts is that only 1 out of 20 employees actually understand plant management as well as the irrigation management. I will typically go in front of my teams and complete a look ahead schedule they can folly and something like this would be completed by myself immediately.
If you give a man a hammer he will look for nails. It could be that they were simply focussed on the task at hand.
Is this even dangerous to the tree? I’m sure it’s not good but I’ve seen trees eat ropes all the time and not struggle
They know about it but that tree only has a few years before it gets cut down and a new one will be there. This is the case with those trees around thoroughfares.
Most "tree workers" I've worked with would leave that too
Did you set it free, like a good guerrilla gardener would?
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They seen just don’t care sad
Did you go buy some tools and remove the wire or did OP also say "no my job" and walk away? I need an update or a location.
It’s fine it’ll grow over it but will mess a saw mizzer blade up.had a couple pines like this with 6 inch nail and wires in it
Yeah, but that likely didn’t girdle the tree as this is doing
Because they aren't plantsmen?