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Speaker 1 (00:09):
Eight, twenty thirteen ten Wi b A and Ask the
Experts brought you by Hamsarborcare Online Hamsarborcare dot com. That's
h A m ms Arborcare dot com. Great website to
learn about hamsarborcarelso I can schedule appointment, write online and
make contact with the team. It's Hamsarborcare dot com. Talking
(00:30):
this morning with mester arborist Kevin Ham. Kevin, how you
doing this week?
Speaker 2 (00:35):
I'm doing great, Sean. I feel like we need to
feel a little bit like autumn.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
It's sure it is and that is. I don't know
about you, but I'm ready for it, and I think
our trees are ready for it as well. And I
do feel like we should almost start the show off
with a previously on Asked the Experts with hams Arborcare.
You know, last week we started talking about about a
job that you were heading out to out on an
island and one of the things that you guys excel
(01:00):
at at Ham's Arborcare obviously the kind of the typical stuff,
but also the atypical stuff as well. You guys do
a lot of these very specialized jobs and kind of
the stuff that a lot of arborists and a lot
of quote unquote treatcare people won't even won't even consider.
You guys do a lot of that stuff at Ham's Arborcare,
don't you.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
Yeah. You know, I'd put up a video showcasing that
job as I was looking at it, and we had
Eli had gone out there and looked at it, and
it was a fractured tree and both sides are still standing.
And and then I went out there and one of
the sides had fallen down on the onto a shed
(01:45):
and the other side was still fractured and looming, and
the only way to get it down would be to
proceed above the fracture somehow, right. And so you know,
as I featured that on Instagram, you get comments, you know,
and and there were a couple of them. They're like,
(02:05):
this is what you call a walk away job. You
look at it and you walk away. And you know,
I've never really been inclined to be that guy, you know,
I was. I've been a puzzle guy all my life.
And so I look at it and it and it
like energizes me. I'm like, Okay, how how might I
(02:27):
do this? And you know, not die? Yeah, that's the key. Yeah,
and and so we uh, I formulated a plan and
we went out there last week and and there's a
whole video on it last Sunday's video. So the most
recent one up on gameoftrees dot com is is that video.
(02:48):
I forgot my my go pros uh so uh. The
good news is that makes it easier edit, sure, because
it was it was just phone clips that we a
couple of us tag teamed and put together. But there's
a lot of value there looking through the thought process
of different processes. We tied the tree back to another
(03:10):
tree utilizing a GRCs and and put you know, over
one thousand pounds of back pressure against the direction it
wanted to fall. And so that that sig that's definitely
more than my weight, right, so it's standing there. And
then we put that rope support on there. And then
I went up and I utilized extension power pole saw,
(03:34):
which is no easy thing to handle in the tree, no,
but I was able to drop off, you know, a
lot of extra weight without proceeding out farther. And then
I was able to proceed out farther and make some
critical you know hand you know, with a chainsaw with
(03:56):
my hands, and we're able to safely dismantle the tree
and bring it back down and and you know, of
course it's on the island. All the brush we staged
and chopped down into a small pile and and uh
and then the wood we cut up for firewood that
they can use at their leisure. And it went without
a hitch. We broke one board on the port on
(04:18):
on the dockpe like a punky little three inch branch.
Decided to drop point first onto the dock and we
were able to trade out aboard and put a put
another board in there and and it worked out perfect.
Speaker 1 (04:34):
Easy, easy, easy, pasy on on the on the yeah,
on the on the fix. Now the project a little
more complicated, and that's one of the great things about
working with Kevin and the team at Ham's arborcare. Regardless
of the project, They've got a plan for you and
they can help you and more importantly, help your trees
out as well. Kevin mentioned their YouTube channel, make sure
you check them out Game of Trees. You can find
them on YouTube at Game of Trees online, Game Offtrees
(04:57):
dot com. That's gameoftrees dot com. Hamsarbacare dot com. Is
there other website as well? And speaking of getting online
and checking things out, did I notice a note saying
that I know you already sell biochar and other things,
but you're gonna start selling your chlorosis boost soon to
folks or am I am? I? Did I see that right?
Speaker 2 (05:16):
Yeah? Yeah, yeah, I'm selling some to a fellow harborist
this this season, and we'll be getting that up in
like gallon sized bags, you know, my lar resyllable bags
that people could utilize in their gardens or with their trees,
(05:38):
and and so that's going to be a product that's available.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
That should be and it has it.
Speaker 2 (05:43):
Has sulfur in there, it has kelated iron and keenlated manganese,
and then of course the biochar, and you mix that
in with water, maybe use some cictric acid, which is
easily available in powder form to to get the eh
of the solution down. You mix it with water and
then you know, soil drench h it in the area
(06:07):
that you want to alter.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
And that's as you talk about some of the great
great stuff you guys have available at gameoftrees dot com.
Of course you guys do applications of all this stuff
as well.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
For folks.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
If you've got a tree with some issues some questions. Definitely,
I get the folks and Kevin the team of at
Amp's Barba Kevin Ham, the team at HAMPS Sarburcarett get
them out. And I was going to ask you too, Kevin,
just about about Japanese beetles and various borers. Now is
definitely a time to be thinking about taking care of
them for the future. Right.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
Yeah. We do a lot of uh spring applications for
those critters, and we do fall applications for those critters,
depending on, you know, when we came across that particular client.
And so we have a fall schedule of soil injections
and beginning anywhere from you know, mid to late September,
(06:59):
and we do it all the way up until the
ground freezes. So if if you call in if you
had a Japanese beetle issue this year, or you've got
a little decline in the top of your birch tree,
that that would be indicative of bronze birch bore. And
if you've if you've got a chlorodic oak or just
(07:20):
an oak with some tip decline, you know, dead branches
at the tips. The dead branches understory are not anything
more than maybe natural shedding, but at the tips means something,
you know, and and so you know, perhaps a soil
injected for bronze or two line chestnut boarder on oaks
(07:44):
would be an appropriate approach. And and so that anytime
in the fall here is a great time to make
those applications. And then our biochar applications and our our
chlorosis bundle approaches are going to be accomplished beginning next week.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
Oh fantastic stuff. And it's a great day to start
those those conversations. I was gonna ask too, Kevin, is
there one that's more more painful and more causes more
suffering for the bores, the fall versus spring treatment? Or are
they both both equally horrible? For those horrible they're.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
Both equally effective. You know. The soil injected is it
takes about thirty days to get into the tree, you know,
so if we do it here in September, you know,
late September, it's it's in the tree in late October,
(08:38):
and then you know they're still moving. They've hatched the
life cycle of the flat headed bores. The eggs were
laid somewhere between you know, June and August, and then
they they've hatched now and they're beginning their little pilgrimage
on their Serpentine trails as the Emerald Ashboord does the
(09:01):
same thing. And so they're actively feeding in the fall,
and so even in late November, it's still above freezing
inside the bark and they're gonna be still active, so
that that would be an effective time they're gonna get hit.
And then it's gonna be there in the spring when
they when they wake up and begin feeding again. If
(09:22):
they missed it in the fall, they're gonna get it
in the spring.
Speaker 1 (09:25):
Now is the time then, definitely want to give Kevin
to the team and Hams Barborcare call eight six six
five nine six five three nine six. That's eight six
sixty five nine sixty five three nine six online Hamsarborcare
dot com. That's h a m Msarborcare dot com. Kevin,
it's always fantastic talking with you, my friend. You enjoyed
this great table. Do it all again real soon, Thank you, Sean.
Take care news is next year at thirteen ten. Wive
Eight, twenty thirteen ten Wi b A and Ask the
Experts brought you by Hamsarborcare Online Hamsarborcare dot com. That's
h A m ms Arborcare dot com. Great website to
learn about hamsarborcarelso I can schedule appointment, write online and
make contact with the team. It's Hamsarborcare dot com. Talking
(00:30):
this morning with mester arborist Kevin Ham. Kevin, how you
doing this week?
Speaker 2 (00:35):
I'm doing great, Sean. I feel like we need to
feel a little bit like autumn.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
It's sure it is and that is. I don't know
about you, but I'm ready for it, and I think
our trees are ready for it as well. And I
do feel like we should almost start the show off
with a previously on Asked the Experts with hams Arborcare.
You know, last week we started talking about about a
job that you were heading out to out on an
island and one of the things that you guys excel
(01:00):
at at Ham's Arborcare obviously the kind of the typical stuff,
but also the atypical stuff as well. You guys do
a lot of these very specialized jobs and kind of
the stuff that a lot of arborists and a lot
of quote unquote treatcare people won't even won't even consider.
You guys do a lot of that stuff at Ham's Arborcare,
don't you.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
Yeah. You know, I'd put up a video showcasing that
job as I was looking at it, and we had
Eli had gone out there and looked at it, and
it was a fractured tree and both sides are still standing.
And and then I went out there and one of
the sides had fallen down on the onto a shed
(01:45):
and the other side was still fractured and looming, and
the only way to get it down would be to
proceed above the fracture somehow, right. And so you know,
as I featured that on Instagram, you get comments, you know,
and and there were a couple of them. They're like,
(02:05):
this is what you call a walk away job. You
look at it and you walk away. And you know,
I've never really been inclined to be that guy, you know,
I was. I've been a puzzle guy all my life.
And so I look at it and it and it
like energizes me. I'm like, Okay, how how might I
(02:27):
do this? And you know, not die? Yeah, that's the key. Yeah,
and and so we uh, I formulated a plan and
we went out there last week and and there's a
whole video on it last Sunday's video. So the most
recent one up on gameoftrees dot com is is that video.
(02:48):
I forgot my my go pros uh so uh. The
good news is that makes it easier edit, sure, because
it was it was just phone clips that we a
couple of us tag teamed and put together. But there's
a lot of value there looking through the thought process
of different processes. We tied the tree back to another
(03:10):
tree utilizing a GRCs and and put you know, over
one thousand pounds of back pressure against the direction it
wanted to fall. And so that that sig that's definitely
more than my weight, right, so it's standing there. And
then we put that rope support on there. And then
I went up and I utilized extension power pole saw,
(03:34):
which is no easy thing to handle in the tree, no,
but I was able to drop off, you know, a
lot of extra weight without proceeding out farther. And then
I was able to proceed out farther and make some
critical you know hand you know, with a chainsaw with
(03:56):
my hands, and we're able to safely dismantle the tree
and bring it back down and and you know, of
course it's on the island. All the brush we staged
and chopped down into a small pile and and uh
and then the wood we cut up for firewood that
they can use at their leisure. And it went without
a hitch. We broke one board on the port on
(04:18):
on the dockpe like a punky little three inch branch.
Decided to drop point first onto the dock and we
were able to trade out aboard and put a put
another board in there and and it worked out perfect.
Speaker 1 (04:34):
Easy, easy, easy, pasy on on the on the yeah,
on the on the fix. Now the project a little
more complicated, and that's one of the great things about
working with Kevin and the team at Ham's arborcare. Regardless
of the project, They've got a plan for you and
they can help you and more importantly, help your trees
out as well. Kevin mentioned their YouTube channel, make sure
you check them out Game of Trees. You can find
them on YouTube at Game of Trees online, Game Offtrees
(04:57):
dot com. That's gameoftrees dot com. Hamsarbacare dot com. Is
there other website as well? And speaking of getting online
and checking things out, did I notice a note saying
that I know you already sell biochar and other things,
but you're gonna start selling your chlorosis boost soon to
folks or am I am? I? Did I see that right?
Speaker 2 (05:16):
Yeah? Yeah, yeah, I'm selling some to a fellow harborist
this this season, and we'll be getting that up in
like gallon sized bags, you know, my lar resyllable bags
that people could utilize in their gardens or with their trees,
(05:38):
and and so that's going to be a product that's available.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
That should be and it has it.
Speaker 2 (05:43):
Has sulfur in there, it has kelated iron and keenlated manganese,
and then of course the biochar, and you mix that
in with water, maybe use some cictric acid, which is
easily available in powder form to to get the eh
of the solution down. You mix it with water and
then you know, soil drench h it in the area
(06:07):
that you want to alter.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
And that's as you talk about some of the great
great stuff you guys have available at gameoftrees dot com.
Of course you guys do applications of all this stuff
as well.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
For folks.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
If you've got a tree with some issues some questions. Definitely,
I get the folks and Kevin the team of at
Amp's Barba Kevin Ham, the team at HAMPS Sarburcarett get
them out. And I was going to ask you too, Kevin,
just about about Japanese beetles and various borers. Now is
definitely a time to be thinking about taking care of
them for the future. Right.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
Yeah. We do a lot of uh spring applications for
those critters, and we do fall applications for those critters,
depending on, you know, when we came across that particular client.
And so we have a fall schedule of soil injections
and beginning anywhere from you know, mid to late September,
(06:59):
and we do it all the way up until the
ground freezes. So if if you call in if you
had a Japanese beetle issue this year, or you've got
a little decline in the top of your birch tree,
that that would be indicative of bronze birch bore. And
if you've if you've got a chlorodic oak or just
(07:20):
an oak with some tip decline, you know, dead branches
at the tips. The dead branches understory are not anything
more than maybe natural shedding, but at the tips means something,
you know, and and so you know, perhaps a soil
injected for bronze or two line chestnut boarder on oaks
(07:44):
would be an appropriate approach. And and so that anytime
in the fall here is a great time to make
those applications. And then our biochar applications and our our
chlorosis bundle approaches are going to be accomplished beginning next week.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
Oh fantastic stuff. And it's a great day to start
those those conversations. I was gonna ask too, Kevin, is
there one that's more more painful and more causes more
suffering for the bores, the fall versus spring treatment? Or are
they both both equally horrible? For those horrible they're.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
Both equally effective. You know. The soil injected is it
takes about thirty days to get into the tree, you know,
so if we do it here in September, you know,
late September, it's it's in the tree in late October,
(08:38):
and then you know they're still moving. They've hatched the
life cycle of the flat headed bores. The eggs were
laid somewhere between you know, June and August, and then
they they've hatched now and they're beginning their little pilgrimage
on their Serpentine trails as the Emerald Ashboord does the
(09:01):
same thing. And so they're actively feeding in the fall,
and so even in late November, it's still above freezing
inside the bark and they're gonna be still active, so
that that would be an effective time they're gonna get hit.
And then it's gonna be there in the spring when
they when they wake up and begin feeding again. If
(09:22):
they missed it in the fall, they're gonna get it
in the spring.
Speaker 1 (09:25):
Now is the time then, definitely want to give Kevin
to the team and Hams Barborcare call eight six six
five nine six five three nine six. That's eight six
sixty five nine sixty five three nine six online Hamsarborcare
dot com. That's h a m Msarborcare dot com. Kevin,
it's always fantastic talking with you, my friend. You enjoyed
this great table. Do it all again real soon, Thank you, Sean.
Take care news is next year at thirteen ten. Wive
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