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Moreton Bay Fig in a spectacular prune by LTM

September 8, 2011

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A large Moreton Bay Fig (Ficus Macrophylla) needed to be pruned to make room between it and the properly adjacent. This species is a large evergreen banyan tree of the Moraceae family that is a native of most of the eastern coast of Australia, from the Atherton Tableland (17° S) in the north to the [...]

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‘Silky’ and ‘Castellari’ tree tools

December 13, 2010

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‘Silky’ and ‘Castellari’ tree tools

The Logical Tree Management Crew recently trialed a number of ‘Silky’ and ‘Castellari’ tree pruning tools. For our trial project we had to prune the deadwood from throughout the canopy of a large Golden Elm and undertake some weight reduction of the lower limbs. The pruning cuts ranged in diameter from 5 cm to 15 [...]

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