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Speaker 1 (00:09):
Eight, eighteen thirteen ten Wuiba and ask the Experts brought
to you by Hamsarborcare Online. Hamsarborcare dot com. That's h
a m ms arborcare dot com. Great website to learn
about Hamsarborcare. Speaking of websites, also check out Game of
Trees dot com. That's gameoftrees dot com. A couple of
(00:32):
great websites. They are the telephone number for Hamsarborcare eight
six six five nine six five three nine six. That's
eight six six five nine six, five three nine six.
And joining us this morning from Hamsarborcare is Mester arborist
Kevin Ham. Kevin, how you doing this week?
Speaker 2 (00:49):
Doing great? Sean. We're kind of watching the weather for
plant healthcare timings. Uh. We're looking at startin fun just
settlesphrase next week. Uh. And it looks looks windy and
wet everything we don't want it to be. So we're
gonna have some tight windows probably getting or done. But
(01:10):
you know, one thing to remember. You know, we often
get when we're squeezing something in between rain or something,
and we spray in the morning and then that night
it rains and and people say, oh, you know, it's
you washed everything on, well, no, we we killed all
the innoculum before the rain. It's the rain event that
(01:32):
can initiate the funkal thing. So if we get the
spray on there and you know, and it dries, obviously
if it's raining while you're doing it, that's going to
be ineffective. But uh, you know, application prior to rain
is like a perfect scenario, just a little caveat there
(01:52):
that is always intuitively understood.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
No I and and and it's it's important to as
we talk about this, of course, working with a master
barburst as you are, Kevin, and of course folks at
Hams Arborcare is having an understanding of kind of the
big picture. And there's a lot of factors that go
into treecare, whether it's the you know, whether it's treatments,
whether it's taking down a tree true tree. I mean,
there's there's weather factors, there's there's biological factors, there's physics
(02:19):
of course, probably put physics first. All these different factors
that come into play. And that's one of the great
things about working with Kevin to the team at Hams Arborcare,
having a full understanding of all of that stuff to
make it make it a successful treatment, of course, make
it a successful trimming or takedown as needed. And Kevin,
last week you had mentioned about beginning free Tree Friday,
and I saw on your Game of Trees YouTube channel
(02:43):
you took somebody got a chance to have a broken
and diseased oak tree taken down. Let's talk a little
bit about one free tree Friday, and two let's talk
a little bit about this this particular tree in that
situation there. Kevin, Yeah, well.
Speaker 2 (02:59):
You know, Taylor had kind of come up with it.
You know, if you if he surf around on YouTube.
There's some various companies that are doing Like a lawn
care guy that does does a lot of all of
his videos. There's something he's doing for free. He's cleaning
off crab grass from a Florida sidewalk. You know, it's
(03:20):
totally grown over the sidewalk and he makes the sidewalk
there again and and it, you know, it gets it
gets a following, and you know, you're feeling like you're
you're giving back. And so there's different situations that that
come our way that we can see where there's a
financial need or something, and and we we can you know,
(03:41):
we have the technology right and we work Monday through Thursday,
and so Taylor's like, well, I don't we you know,
it's kind of kind of chimy free tree Friday, and
we could we could do a thing every once in
a while where we we can post on a Friday
and actually do it on a Friday and usually doesn't
(04:04):
get posted the same Friday. But at any rate, yeah,
it was. It was Taylor's conception, and I happened to
have a missionary friend. Our church supports them. They're up
in Canada right now, but they had bought a house.
(04:26):
They moved out of the States, sold their house, and
then they're renting in Canada. So they put that house
money into a house in his hometown, which happened to
be Partyville, and it's right next door to my mother
in law, and his tree dropped a branch on a
large branch, third of the tree onto her roof this winter,
(04:47):
and so we had taken it off, and then I
knew that that was his house, so that I thought, well,
this would be an opportunity to you know, do a
little virtually a donation to his cause. And so I
we set it up and we did it, and it
was still in the winter. But you know, I finally
got it edited and so then I thought, well, we'll
(05:08):
just make this the first free Tree Friday video. Uh
and and so I on Friday, I went out solo
with our lift and kind of got it going because
we had limited volunteer help on Saturday, and we we
got her done on Saturday. Then, so there's actually two
videos in this case, and I posted them Friday and Saturday.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
It's a pretty and it's a pretty impressive when it
comes to bring that that oak down is it's a
tight area. That is one of those things I yeah,
talk about folks watching the you know, you're entertaining and informative.
It's also amazing watching the work that goes into especially
you know, I like a project like this where it's
(05:53):
a there's houses and buildings all around and you're working
in this, you know, on this lift, break and ring things.
So that yeah, yes, exactly, it's it's pretty impressive stuff.
So I certainly for folks, if you haven't yet subscribed
to the Game of Trees YouTube channel, you definitely want
to do that. Watch those videos. They are really really informative,
(06:16):
really interesting Kevin and the crew, and of course it's
on Taylor and others in those videos. It's it's really
cool to see and really really a fun thing to do.
And Kevin, we started off this week's conversation talking about
about the weather and treatments and other things. This is
this is prime time right now. I know, this is
when for for an arborist, you're thinking about trees year round.
(06:38):
For a lot of homeowners, this is where we start
to wake up and go, oh, yeah, we've got trees
that need that may need attention. Now is really the
time to be to be talking about and getting on
the schedule, whether it's for just an inspection to make
sure your tree is healthy, trimmings, prunings, those type of things,
as well as any type of any type of plementary
(07:00):
needs your tree may need. Right now is the time
for that stuff, isn't it?
Speaker 2 (07:03):
Kevin? Absolutely, it's it's gonna be go time. It usually happens,
you know, when we get a nice it's funny like
like something like is coming up, yeah, fifty degrees, seventy
eight degrees and it's like, oh, spring is here, and
people get out and they start to look around and
then they oh, you know, and it just naturally is
we call it the spring light switch. Yeah, and it's
(07:25):
a phenomenon, it's the thing. So yeah, get get in
there because it's gonna get busy. And then you know,
four weeks turns into six weeks. We've got the summertime
schedule everything top and then we get a storm, you know,
and the calendar works, it gets affected by storm work.
(07:47):
But yeah, it's that time of year.
Speaker 1 (07:50):
It's go time, prime time to get on that schedule
and calendar. Give them a call. Eight six six five
nine six five nine six. That's eight six six five
nine six five three nine six. Get on the schedule
for Ham's Arbor. Kare another great time of year, and
we think of spring, we think plannings and I know
we talked a little bit last week about legacy trees.
What's involved in the Legacy Tree Program. Let's talk a
(08:11):
little bit more about that for folks that are looking
to uh, looking to add something that's gonna that's gonna
be really appreciated for for years and years and generations
and generations to come. Getting that tree off to a
right start. I mean, these are trees that from day
one with the Legacy Tree Program have been have been
cared for and with the full intention of being as
(08:31):
successful as possible and being around for a very long time.
Let's talk a little bit about those trees, Kevin.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
Yes, we've got a whole variety of trees. An old
concept of legacy trees was that it was, uh, you know,
so many trees are planted inappropriately, you know, too deep
or you know whatever, or even the nursery practices where
you've got circling roots from container grown trees and root
(09:02):
balls that don't have a lot of adventitious roots in them.
And so ron Zillmer started legacy trees and and got
it up and running here. And his process creates a
root plate just like it would in the forest. The
trees branch out laterally and then they shoot sinker roots
(09:25):
down and so you have that structure and then this
brownie they call it, it's like a rectangle about eight
inches deep. Uh, just gets filled with fine roots. So
you have a great drought resistant package that it's in
to begin with. And then we confidently give a five
(09:48):
year warranty and nobody gives a fire, and we touch
it every year. We go and take a couple branches
off and set it up. And that's a great benefit
because we're getting that off to a good start, because
tree structure is the next thing that gets ignored. You
(10:11):
put your tree in the ground and it's getting bushy.
It just looks so cute, and a lot of those
branch unions are not right, and we can with just
a few little corrective cuts just make it so much better.
And then we can every two years come in and
do a little pruning after that, and your trees just
(10:33):
off to a wonderful start.
Speaker 1 (10:35):
And as with so much of this stuff, is is
those little you know, those those little steps taken for
care that you know, that planning and that protecting of
the trees, things that can be done early on could
really pay huge dividends in the life of that tree.
And we talk about Legacy Tree Program, that five year warranty,
which is absolutely amazing. One of the things you'll also
(10:56):
notice is when they are planting them, they're on palletts,
not in I think a lot of folks are are
familiar with the with the burlap bag that a lot
of trees coming these are because of how they're how
they're grown, and how they're cared for. And part of
why they're so successful is how they how they arrive
and that's a great thing. From day one, They've got
a wide variety of different trees. I've been thinking about
doing a planting legacy trees is definitely the great way
(11:19):
to go. Give m call it hams Arborcare Kevin the
team love to talk to this morning. Eight six six
five nine six five three nine six. That's eight six
six five nine six five three nine six. Can learn
more online Hamsarborcare dot com. That's h a m Msarborcare
dot com. Kevin. It's always great chatting my friend. We'll
talk real soon. Enjoy this weather. I see seventies coming
(11:39):
up for next week, so yeah, not even low seventies,
high to mid seventies, mid dies seventies, so yeah, should
be busy that that'll be uh, that'll be a fun
to fun to see and uh we'll talk down you
Take care, Kevin.
Speaker 2 (11:52):
Thank you, Sean Kevin Hamhams.
Speaker 1 (11:54):
Barborcare News comes your way next year. A thirteen ten
wib I
Eight, eighteen thirteen ten Wuiba and ask the Experts brought
to you by Hamsarborcare Online. Hamsarborcare dot com. That's h
a m ms arborcare dot com. Great website to learn
about Hamsarborcare. Speaking of websites, also check out Game of
Trees dot com. That's gameoftrees dot com. A couple of
(00:32):
great websites. They are the telephone number for Hamsarborcare eight
six six five nine six five three nine six. That's
eight six six five nine six, five three nine six.
And joining us this morning from Hamsarborcare is Mester arborist
Kevin Ham. Kevin, how you doing this week?
Speaker 2 (00:49):
Doing great? Sean. We're kind of watching the weather for
plant healthcare timings. Uh. We're looking at startin fun just
settlesphrase next week. Uh. And it looks looks windy and
wet everything we don't want it to be. So we're
gonna have some tight windows probably getting or done. But
(01:10):
you know, one thing to remember. You know, we often
get when we're squeezing something in between rain or something,
and we spray in the morning and then that night
it rains and and people say, oh, you know, it's
you washed everything on, well, no, we we killed all
the innoculum before the rain. It's the rain event that
(01:32):
can initiate the funkal thing. So if we get the
spray on there and you know, and it dries, obviously
if it's raining while you're doing it, that's going to
be ineffective. But uh, you know, application prior to rain
is like a perfect scenario, just a little caveat there
(01:52):
that is always intuitively understood.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
No I and and and it's it's important to as
we talk about this, of course, working with a master
barburst as you are, Kevin, and of course folks at
Hams Arborcare is having an understanding of kind of the
big picture. And there's a lot of factors that go
into treecare, whether it's the you know, whether it's treatments,
whether it's taking down a tree true tree. I mean,
there's there's weather factors, there's there's biological factors, there's physics
(02:19):
of course, probably put physics first. All these different factors
that come into play. And that's one of the great
things about working with Kevin to the team at Hams Arborcare,
having a full understanding of all of that stuff to
make it make it a successful treatment, of course, make
it a successful trimming or takedown as needed. And Kevin,
last week you had mentioned about beginning free Tree Friday,
and I saw on your Game of Trees YouTube channel
(02:43):
you took somebody got a chance to have a broken
and diseased oak tree taken down. Let's talk a little
bit about one free tree Friday, and two let's talk
a little bit about this this particular tree in that
situation there. Kevin, Yeah, well.
Speaker 2 (02:59):
You know, Taylor had kind of come up with it.
You know, if you if he surf around on YouTube.
There's some various companies that are doing Like a lawn
care guy that does does a lot of all of
his videos. There's something he's doing for free. He's cleaning
off crab grass from a Florida sidewalk. You know, it's
(03:20):
totally grown over the sidewalk and he makes the sidewalk
there again and and it, you know, it gets it
gets a following, and you know, you're feeling like you're
you're giving back. And so there's different situations that that
come our way that we can see where there's a
financial need or something, and and we we can you know,
(03:41):
we have the technology right and we work Monday through Thursday,
and so Taylor's like, well, I don't we you know,
it's kind of kind of chimy free tree Friday, and
we could we could do a thing every once in
a while where we we can post on a Friday
and actually do it on a Friday and usually doesn't
(04:04):
get posted the same Friday. But at any rate, yeah,
it was. It was Taylor's conception, and I happened to
have a missionary friend. Our church supports them. They're up
in Canada right now, but they had bought a house.
(04:26):
They moved out of the States, sold their house, and
then they're renting in Canada. So they put that house
money into a house in his hometown, which happened to
be Partyville, and it's right next door to my mother
in law, and his tree dropped a branch on a
large branch, third of the tree onto her roof this winter,
(04:47):
and so we had taken it off, and then I
knew that that was his house, so that I thought, well,
this would be an opportunity to you know, do a
little virtually a donation to his cause. And so I
we set it up and we did it, and it
was still in the winter. But you know, I finally
got it edited and so then I thought, well, we'll
(05:08):
just make this the first free Tree Friday video. Uh
and and so I on Friday, I went out solo
with our lift and kind of got it going because
we had limited volunteer help on Saturday, and we we
got her done on Saturday. Then, so there's actually two
videos in this case, and I posted them Friday and Saturday.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
It's a pretty and it's a pretty impressive when it
comes to bring that that oak down is it's a
tight area. That is one of those things I yeah,
talk about folks watching the you know, you're entertaining and informative.
It's also amazing watching the work that goes into especially
you know, I like a project like this where it's
(05:53):
a there's houses and buildings all around and you're working
in this, you know, on this lift, break and ring things.
So that yeah, yes, exactly, it's it's pretty impressive stuff.
So I certainly for folks, if you haven't yet subscribed
to the Game of Trees YouTube channel, you definitely want
to do that. Watch those videos. They are really really informative,
(06:16):
really interesting Kevin and the crew, and of course it's
on Taylor and others in those videos. It's it's really
cool to see and really really a fun thing to do.
And Kevin, we started off this week's conversation talking about
about the weather and treatments and other things. This is
this is prime time right now. I know, this is
when for for an arborist, you're thinking about trees year round.
(06:38):
For a lot of homeowners, this is where we start
to wake up and go, oh, yeah, we've got trees
that need that may need attention. Now is really the
time to be to be talking about and getting on
the schedule, whether it's for just an inspection to make
sure your tree is healthy, trimmings, prunings, those type of things,
as well as any type of any type of plementary
(07:00):
needs your tree may need. Right now is the time
for that stuff, isn't it?
Speaker 2 (07:03):
Kevin? Absolutely, it's it's gonna be go time. It usually happens,
you know, when we get a nice it's funny like
like something like is coming up, yeah, fifty degrees, seventy
eight degrees and it's like, oh, spring is here, and
people get out and they start to look around and
then they oh, you know, and it just naturally is
we call it the spring light switch. Yeah, and it's
(07:25):
a phenomenon, it's the thing. So yeah, get get in
there because it's gonna get busy. And then you know,
four weeks turns into six weeks. We've got the summertime
schedule everything top and then we get a storm, you know,
and the calendar works, it gets affected by storm work.
(07:47):
But yeah, it's that time of year.
Speaker 1 (07:50):
It's go time, prime time to get on that schedule
and calendar. Give them a call. Eight six six five
nine six five nine six. That's eight six six five
nine six five three nine six. Get on the schedule
for Ham's Arbor. Kare another great time of year, and
we think of spring, we think plannings and I know
we talked a little bit last week about legacy trees.
What's involved in the Legacy Tree Program. Let's talk a
(08:11):
little bit more about that for folks that are looking
to uh, looking to add something that's gonna that's gonna
be really appreciated for for years and years and generations
and generations to come. Getting that tree off to a
right start. I mean, these are trees that from day
one with the Legacy Tree Program have been have been
cared for and with the full intention of being as
(08:31):
successful as possible and being around for a very long time.
Let's talk a little bit about those trees, Kevin.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
Yes, we've got a whole variety of trees. An old
concept of legacy trees was that it was, uh, you know,
so many trees are planted inappropriately, you know, too deep
or you know whatever, or even the nursery practices where
you've got circling roots from container grown trees and root
(09:02):
balls that don't have a lot of adventitious roots in them.
And so ron Zillmer started legacy trees and and got
it up and running here. And his process creates a
root plate just like it would in the forest. The
trees branch out laterally and then they shoot sinker roots
(09:25):
down and so you have that structure and then this
brownie they call it, it's like a rectangle about eight
inches deep. Uh, just gets filled with fine roots. So
you have a great drought resistant package that it's in
to begin with. And then we confidently give a five
(09:48):
year warranty and nobody gives a fire, and we touch
it every year. We go and take a couple branches
off and set it up. And that's a great benefit
because we're getting that off to a good start, because
tree structure is the next thing that gets ignored. You
(10:11):
put your tree in the ground and it's getting bushy.
It just looks so cute, and a lot of those
branch unions are not right, and we can with just
a few little corrective cuts just make it so much better.
And then we can every two years come in and
do a little pruning after that, and your trees just
(10:33):
off to a wonderful start.
Speaker 1 (10:35):
And as with so much of this stuff, is is
those little you know, those those little steps taken for
care that you know, that planning and that protecting of
the trees, things that can be done early on could
really pay huge dividends in the life of that tree.
And we talk about Legacy Tree Program, that five year warranty,
which is absolutely amazing. One of the things you'll also
(10:56):
notice is when they are planting them, they're on palletts,
not in I think a lot of folks are are
familiar with the with the burlap bag that a lot
of trees coming these are because of how they're how
they're grown, and how they're cared for. And part of
why they're so successful is how they how they arrive
and that's a great thing. From day one, They've got
a wide variety of different trees. I've been thinking about
doing a planting legacy trees is definitely the great way
(11:19):
to go. Give m call it hams Arborcare Kevin the
team love to talk to this morning. Eight six six
five nine six five three nine six. That's eight six
six five nine six five three nine six. Can learn
more online Hamsarborcare dot com. That's h a m Msarborcare
dot com. Kevin. It's always great chatting my friend. We'll
talk real soon. Enjoy this weather. I see seventies coming
(11:39):
up for next week, so yeah, not even low seventies,
high to mid seventies, mid dies seventies, so yeah, should
be busy that that'll be uh, that'll be a fun
to fun to see and uh we'll talk down you
Take care, Kevin.
Speaker 2 (11:52):
Thank you, Sean Kevin Hamhams.
Speaker 1 (11:54):
Barborcare News comes your way next year. A thirteen ten
wib I
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