07/11/2026
How it started 🆚 How it’s going
One of this weeks’ projects: This beautiful Burr Oak was ready to peel apart, and we intervened in time to save it. This is the first step of a Brace and Prune service, prescribed to keep the tree around as long as possible.
These included bark unions don’t occur over night. They’re the result of a tree growing to fill the space provided without an arborist training it for better structure with regular pruning.
This defect occurred long before our client had any control over this. Luckily they caught the defect before it failed completely, and our team was able to install a bracing system to hold it together.
Our team learned a lot… like how iced coffee on a 30 degree day can hold an arborist together, after breaking a drill, getting drill bits stuck in a tree, and hanging in the same position for 6 hours.
Sometimes things don’t go according to plan, but we adapt, learn from it, and get the job done. The result feels good either way.
