How to shear a Christmas tree. Part 1: The basics
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- Опубликовано: 8 июл 2021
- Shearing or trimming a Christmas tree is probably the most important and time consuming job on a Christmas tree farm. We like to shear with a knife, or a blade that is 16 inches long, with an 18 inch handle. You also need to have hand pruners available. It is important to remember that you do not want shoulders on your tree. You want straight lines from top to bottom. Usually these lines come within a few degrees of a 40 degree angle. You start your cuts from the top of the tree and come down. You will want to cut your top or your leader first to know your starting point. We also show how to cut handles and the importance of that process. Here at East Fork Christmas tree farm we grow 4 main varieties of trees. Noble Fir, Noordman fir, Grand fir, and Doug Fir. Shearing is done from mid July through August when the trees are done growing but have not become woody yet
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I thank you for the information.Has been very valuable to a new tree grower 13:48
So glad I watched this before cutting tree.
Excellent video, thanks
damn, i think the hardest part of christmas tree business for me will be getting daughter or son. 2 would be even better. haha. thanks for sharing
BTW, I'm incharge of maintaining and running my brothers first christmas tree farm. We have 700 trees here in Missouri. It's such a learning experience!
You will be a pro before you know it.
We have a 14 ft Frazer we have kept trimmed for a decade. Everyone said it would die here in Ohio, but so far, it's lovely. Bending over incessantly is for young backs......that eventually will become old and riddled with stiffness and pain.
Lol. My once young back is now stiff but still going.
I have some Nellie r Stevens Holly that I planted a few years ago as saplings and they've grown significantly. This video brought me here because I'm learning how to shear them in a 🎄 tree shape . Although they're from a different family/species, there are some similarities (particularly with 🎄tree shearing) & this video has been helpful. Thank you!
Hope it works out well for you.
Great Video. Thanks For Sharing
Thanks for the tips and advice!
My pleasure.
Hey Rob The Way You Like To Swing That Blade Kind’ve Looks Like You Need A Samurai Sword 🗡️ Haha For Longer Reach Points For Some Much More Taller Christmas 🎄Trees Buddy Cheers 🍻
Hi Flanagan Homestead
wonderful video for learning!
Thank you. Good luck with your trees
I was waiting for this vid. Thank you
More shearing videos later this week
Totally Artistic ! Love It !
Thank you. I love hearing from other tree farmers. Our first planting ever was 1200 trees and just grew from there. What type of tree is used for Christmas trees in Missouri.
I just planted 4 Christmas trees they are small right now but I would love to see them grow big just like 6 feet high I really appreciate your tips I will get the bottom branches out.
I hope they turn out beautiful. What variety are they?
@@FlanaganHomestead thanks 😊.
I have a question when I bought them it came 2 together in the same pot should I separate them or just leave them like that thanks
@@bellabestia348 definitely separate
@@FlanaganHomestead I will thank you so much! and they are Serbian spruce tree.
Thank u so much for your videos Sr i have a question i really dont know anything about pine trees but 4 years ago we got a elderica pine tree so this is my question for you Sr. Is it posible to keep a tree like this short and just trimmed the wey u did in your video or just let it go? Thank u so much for al the beautiful Christmas tree's you deliver every years
You wanted to get the fact that cutting handles sucks across bad enough you put that part in twice lol. Thanks for the videos, I have 45 acres and have been thinking of ways to make the land profitable for me instead of just killing deer and paying taxes. I've been thinking about trees for a while. Just curious are you U-Cut only? I don't think I would want to go that route, I think I'd rather go more of a wholesale route. Any experience there?
First off, yes cutting handles (basal pruning) is not fun. I did wholesale small amounts of trees before I built up my customer base. But never more than 150 trees at a time. One of the things To consider on wholesaling is most buyers expect you to cut, bale and have the trees ready for the truck but is not always the case. Purchasing or having access to a good Baler and a good crew is necessary when doing wholesale. People that have trees for wholesale this year are doing very well. There is a shortage of trees and people that have never asked to purchase wholesale before myself included are looking to bring in extra trees.
What brand of knife/machete do you use?
Where would you recommend purchasing a quality sheer? We are in Central Oregon and I'm thinking of having a small u cut Christmas Tree for locals wanting this experience.
I ordered my knives online from brushking.
The trees that you are letting get up to 5ft before topping. Are you sheering them, or just letting the whole tree run wild?
Trying to leave them alone as much as possible but if they are getting to wide we shear them back. If it canes time to shear and we need to cut through a 2 year section of branch we can’t just do it with a knife
@@FlanaganHomestead thanks for the reply. Picking up my first 2500 trees ever tomorrow.
Do you fertilize your trees with high nitrogen?
Unless our soil sample indicates otherwise we put on a Christmas tree mix made by valley ag. It is 23-0-10 with boron.
@@FlanaganHomestead do you have experience in growing Montrose Spruce in large containers? We just purchased two spruce trees, 4 feet, to replace our boxwood. We plan to keep them in containers and use them as Christmas trees in front of the house. I’m in Canada, zone 5b.
@@samMTL514 sorry. I do not have any experience with that spruce.
Dont take out handles and you can stump culture it and get multiple trees off 1 stump in a fraction of the time
We have done that a few times and found the quality of tree this way was inferior. At least with nobles it was. What type of trees have you had success with?
@@FlanaganHomestead Balsam Fir will grow a nice tree off the stump in the second year after cutting, Keep a few large branches for a few years though, to keep the tree alive