A Winter Warm Up

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Thirteen ten WIBA eight twenty hanging out with Kevin Ham,
master arborist at Ham's Arborcare the website Hamsarborcare dot com.
That's h A m MS Arborcare dot com. While you're
on their internet as well, make sure you check out
Game of Trees dot com. That's Game off Trees dot com.
We'll talk about some of the stuff featured up on

(00:21):
that website as well, also speaking of those internets in
those connections and different ways to learn about Hams Barborcare
and enjoy it and be entertained as well. Make sure
you're subscribing to their YouTube channel. A lot of great content,
a lot of great videos posted up there. Not only
are they super interesting, very informative, Kevinan and the team
do a really really good job with them, so you

(00:42):
definitely want to do that as well as follow them
on Instagram. Without any further ado, Kevin Ham of Hamsarborcare, Kevin,
how you doing this week?

Speaker 2 (00:50):
Doing great? Sean? This is just phenomenal weather.

Speaker 1 (00:56):
Yes it is.

Speaker 2 (00:57):
I can't believe We've got hard ground. Yeah, arm temperatures
and no snow. It's a tree workers paradise.

Speaker 1 (01:07):
Yeah, and especially for folks that have oak trees. What
a great opportunity right now is, isn't it?

Speaker 2 (01:13):
Yeah, definitely, we want to get the oak trees done.
You know, we we could get a pretty quick warm
up in the spring and then you know we're shutting
down early. And so as always we track the the
temperatures and the degree days, and Wisconsin has a great

(01:33):
app that allows us to do that very efficiently by
by area. And so, yeah, if you've got oak trees
and you want some dead wood printing done, get us
out there. We can identify the dead wood without the
leaves on the tree because the leaves aren't in the
way blocking our view to give an analogy. Yeah, we can.

(01:58):
We can see the live budds are very prominent on
the trees, and yeah, get us out there and take
a look at it.

Speaker 1 (02:08):
It's a really good day to start that conversation. All
I got to is give them a call eight sixty
six five nine six five three nine six. That's eight
six six five nine six five three nine six to
get on the schedule with Kevin Ham and the crow
folks at Ham's arborcare. I was almost going to call
you a game of trees there, but there's the reason
why Game of Trees is on my mind this morning.

(02:29):
And I was saying, last week, my most recent order
of the biochar soap had arrived and folks can order
that online. And did I see this right? You just
picked up another batch.

Speaker 2 (02:43):
Yeah, we picked up another batch. You never want to
run out of stock of that. It's kind of become
a signature item, and you know, it kind of represents,
you know, if you're a carbon sequestrian kind of person,
it represents that area. It UH it's you know, recycle, reused.

(03:03):
We're we're using our own chips to make activated charcoal,
and you know it it represents what we utilize it
for in in trees, is is replenishing the soil and
and conditioning the soil to become a higher nutrient holding
UH capacity. And we were offering a lawn application now

(03:29):
with UH biochar, and then of course individual tree treatments
that can help chlorosis and different functions and just overall
UH soil health. So you know, get guess out there
if you're if you're doing current lawn service UH, an
application of biochar will enhance everything that they're doing for you.

Speaker 1 (03:53):
Have you had any of the lawn services reach out
to you, Kevin and say, hey, could we, uh, could
we pick up some of your your bio che are
or is that Has that happened at all?

Speaker 2 (04:02):
You know, not not yet, but you know, we're working
on some garden centers to carry some of our products
so that people can make their own little compost tinctures.
Oh nice with activated charcoal included. So it's yeah, you
beyond watching. Well, we'll have it on We have it
on our website right now as an option to buy, uh,

(04:25):
you know, a small one gallon bag of activated charcoal
which you could incorporate into, you know, a bag of composts.

Speaker 1 (04:34):
And I know we've talked in the past about some
of the benefits to h to biochar and that activated
charcoal it is really you mentioned obviously, it is something
that that you guys are making locally and you've used
it for years. When it comes to helping trees and
tree growth, that same that those same benefits for trees
also help all sorts of organic matter, including including lawns

(04:56):
and and for folks that maybe you've had treatments and
applications for for your trees, probably notice that your lawns
around those areas are doing so much better. And of
course now that's available for widespread, large areas as well,
isn't it. Yes, definitely fantastic. And that's again we talked
about that biochar and the great benefits to it. You

(05:17):
can learn more online the website Hamsarborcare dot com. That's H. A. M.
M as Arborcare dot com. Ar telphe number eight six
six five nine six five three nine six that's eight
six six five nine six five three nine six. And Kevin,
I know something that's very important when it comes to
overall tree health is and just like anything overall health

(05:38):
of our of our bodies, of our teeth, everything for
humans is regular visits to your doctor, to your dentists.
Those same benefits are true for regular visits from your
arborist and having your trees inspected. And I know one
of the nice things you guys do at Hams Arborcare
is seasonal reminders to let people know, hey, your tree,

(05:58):
we were out to inspect it had an issue in
the past, or those type of things, or we are
watching something really keeping track of that stuff. It's a
really cool service you guys provide at Ham's Arborcare not
just a one and done. You make sure that folks
have their trees cared for as long as that tree's there,
which can be generations.

Speaker 2 (06:19):
Yeah. Absolutely, And even we just sent out some preen
renewals where we're watching various training prunings that we're doing,
and you know, it's amazing. I'll post an Instagram video
on on something that we've been involved with, maybe maybe
a particular tree that we've trained for a number of years,

(06:40):
and you know a lot of the arborists are like, oh,
I wish that we had situations where we had long
term treatment. Well, this has been something we've kind of
focused on all through the years. Ams arbiicare of course,
I've been around for a while, so you know, I
just bye by rule. I've got clients I've had for

(07:02):
a long time. But we really want to promote that
kind of client more so than a one time customer,
a one off customer. We want to take these trees
are long term projects and to have somebody Why I
was just in someone's yard that's called it. They proactively

(07:25):
called us back for training pruning, and I said, you know,
look at look at this tree right here. It's pretty
good for him. We've been in it before, but it
has a split leader at the top. You know, something
that maybe was quite small two years ago when we
were there, and and now it grew vigorously and left unchecked,
that would be a co dominant stem that may split

(07:48):
apart and totally deface this tree in five years, you know,
if you were just to turn your back on it.
And five years passes pretty quickly, yes, and uh, and
so we want to be proactively watching these trees. And
so anything that we have categorized as training pruning in
our system, every two years, you're gonna you're gonna get

(08:11):
sent in notice. And and that's a great.

Speaker 1 (08:15):
You know, Kevin, for folks that haven't and we experience
as we had one of our trees.

Speaker 2 (08:19):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (08:20):
Actually unfortunately when we first bought our house, Uh, it
came down. It was it wasn't maintained properly, and unfortunately
it had to be it had to be taken down.
And for anybody that's experienced that, they know it's a
it's impactful. Is is you really until you've experienced something
that you don't realize how much you rely on them
for shade and just for their their overall astatic and

(08:42):
just how nice they are, and then when they're gone,
you're like, gosh, I wish I wish I could have
done more. I wish I would have done something. And
that's that's as we talk about, you know, making sure
that you keep up on that maintenance and and really
working with people time and time again in their trees.
That's really what you're preventing is is you're doing everything
possible to make sure that that tree. And again, a

(09:02):
tree that's well maintained and well taken care of is going.
It's got the potential for decades and decades to be
around and really do things. And as we talk every
every week, Vin, I think it highlights the importance of
making sure that you're taking care of those trees, because
far too many times, as you were kind of highlighting,
there's things that can be start out quite small, quite manageable,

(09:24):
quite easily easily taken care of, can turn into catastrophic
issues that ultimately results in losing the tree. So it's
important for folks to pick up the phone. If you've
got trees on the property and you're saying, you know what,
I haven't had them and it's inspected recently, it's a
great day to have Kevin and the team from Ham's
Barborcare come on out eight six six five nine six

(09:44):
five three nine six. That's telephone number eight sixty six
five nine six five three nine six. The website Hamsarborcare
dot com. That's h A m Msarborcare dot com. Give
them a call today, especially again if you've got those
oak trees, perfect weather for oak. Prune I started this
conversation also off this week talking about the biochart body
bar something I absolutely love. Still got to buy one,

(10:06):
get one sale, Kevin, correct me if I'm wrong going
on right now, don't you?

Speaker 2 (10:11):
Definitely?

Speaker 1 (10:11):
And that's a game offtrees dot com. That's gameoftrees dot com.
It's always great chatting with you, my friend. You enjoy
this absolutely fantastic day and we'll do it all again
real soon.

Speaker 2 (10:21):
Thank you, Sean.

Speaker 1 (10:21):
Take care, take care, Kevin hamams Arborcare and again that
website Hamsarborcare dot com