When to Get On the Schedule

Kevin talks about how the competition went and when you should be scheduling work on your trees. (Spoiler: now.)

Episode Transcript

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Twenty four thirteen ten WIBA and Askthe Experts, joined this morning by Kevin
Ham, master arborist at hams Arborcarethe website hams Arborcare dot com. That's
h A m MS Arborcare dot com. Telephone number eight six six five nine
six five three nine six. That'seight six six five nine six five three

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nine six. Kevin, how areyou doing this morning? Doing great?
Sean, It's good to talk withyou. And of course, before we
get into some great stuff about ourtrees, let's talk about some trees you
were recently very near and close toyou, and you and Taylor had had
an opportunity to compete this past weekend. And I know a lot of people

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who are wondering, well, whathappened? How to go? I'm hearing
good things. Yeah, it wasa great weekend. We Uh, It's
been sixteen years since I've participated inthis particular event, and so a lot
has changed. It's come a longway. It was a one day event
back when I did it, andnow it's a three day extravagance. And

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so yeah, we Taylor ended uptaking first in the speed climb and third
in the in the throw line competition, and we both performed pretty well in
the In the aerial rescue at workclimb, I made a fatal air at
the bottom, not a fatal air, but connected my lanyard actually left side,

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the left side. I clipped ontoa front side attachment point, which
is legal. It just was twoinches away from where I should have clipped
in. You're supposed to be acrossthe saddle on your lanyards. And then
I was adjusting my climbing line.I had to pull it through a crotch

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because my initial you throw your ropebag down from the top of the tree
and you get one shot to putyour rope bag down, and it ricocheted
off of a branch and went onthe wrong side of something. So I
had something to fix at the bottomof the tree. So I traversed out
the final limb and and as soonas I disconnected, I was I was

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only you know, connected left sideto the left side, So a little
subtle, subtle air that ended upbe queuing me on that eighty point event.
But it was right at the endof the clime. I had a
solid climb, so you know,I wasn't going to win the thing anyway,
so uh, it was it was. It was a good, good

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experience and and probably helped some otherpeople you know, think about what they
were doing. It's it's in seeinghow the competition, you know, brings
out a different kind of pressure,you know, in your mind, how
your mind is thinking through something.And it's just it's different than production.

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Uh and and so it's actually ayou know, very good, you know
thing to be involved in that willsharpen you quite a bit. If you
can keep your mind together in thattype of environment, you know, you'll
be it'll be no problem in aproduction style environment. Well, that's that's
interesting to see how, you know, how it's applicable, you know,
broadly applicable as well to what whatyou're able to do at Ham's arboricare one

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of the cool things. I know. I obviously follow you on YouTube but
also on Instagram as well, andI saw some saw some video look like
get perfect Weather, saw some climbing. I also saw a big old box
of soap and I saw that youwere distributing that to volunteers and other folks
at the event. And as wetalked with Kevin, don't forget about Game
of Trees dot com. That's gameof Freeze dot com. You can buy

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some great equipment as well as ifyou want to smell fantastic and get some
great, great soap. And I'munderstanding I don't have any hair, but
my my understanding is it's shampoo aswell. Check it out Game of Trees
dot com. That's Game of Treesdot com. Speaking of purchases, on
the other side of purchases, you'vegot got a new rig and this is

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uh, this is something that's reallygoing to help out when it comes to
comes to spraying for things like,uh, what do I call them spongey
moth thingies or I the gypsy moth. I'm gonna call it. It's autumn
and few people are thinking about,you know, spongee moth now. But
if you had an issue with themthis summer, the time to to get

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on the schedule is now. Weare going to be doing BTK sprays mostly
in the northern markets. We don'tdon't bring it into the city because it's
we got a sticky substance in thereto stick it on the leaves and there's
just so many cars and things inthe city that it can lead to uh

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nuisance issues. It's not a causticthing that we're spraying, but it's more
of a nuisance, but it isan option one of the options we have.
We also have uh systemic treatment thatwe can do if if you're in
the city and you've got a coupleof trees in your yard, that stomach
is a great way to reduce thepopulation significantly. And and then of course

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this spray rag also would help withfungicidal sprays. So if if you had
well your your spruce tree isn't lookinggreat, or your apple tree was leafless
by you know, beginning of August, we can mitigate those fungal issues as
well. With springtime sprays. Wecan't. Once the problem shows up,

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we can't. We can't. We'regoing to write you a quote for the
following year. So if you addsome some your spruce trees are kind of
looking raddy right now, or oryour your crab apple defolliated early, now
is the time to call us andhave us get you on that schedule.
A tellfone number eight six six fivenine six five three nine six. That's

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eight six six five nine six fivethree nine six. Obviously, as we're
getting into autumn here, leaves aregoing to start in to fall at etcetera.
Say fall as leaves are going tostart changing colors. Some folks though,
may have noticed some of their treesturning yellow and some of the leaves
turning a little bit yellow. That'sa sign of of a of an issue

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for that tree. And you've gottreatments and other things that can help folks
with that, don't you. Yeah. Chlorosis is the official term. And
so if you're oak tree in particular, or red maple or river birch is
another one that will get chlorotic,and red oaks can also suffer from the
problem them and that would be inearly in midsummer. Your tree is yellow,

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and and so we are beginning nextweek to do our colorosis treatments,
which include an air spade we blowout the base and that helps aid in
the application of some of the productsthat we put down. But we usually

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throw a like a a four stagea treatment process at them that includes some
board treatment and some iron treatment,and some biochar treatment and some gross regulator
treatment. So those four things alltogether really give us some solid turnaround for

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about a three year period of time. And so it's a process where you
can treat the tree the fall,and you'll have three years of a pretty
good color and then you can evaluatethat next summer and think about in that
fourth year if you want to doit that ball again and get another three
years. Sometimes it'll it'll turn thetree around and it'll kind of sustain on

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its own, and other times it'severy three years you kind of give it
this boost. And because soil soilis very hard to change permanently, there's
a lot of soil in your yardand it's hard to you know, chemically
change that that whole makeup and sobut we can get it mitigated for three

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year period of time. It's afantastic day to give Kevin the team at
hams Arborcare a call. Whether you'venoticed some issues of your trees, or
maybe you just want to make surethat they're growing and developing properly. Kevin
the team at hams Arborcare they arethere for you. Also, don't forget
about legacy trees and tree planting aswell. Learn more all online website hams
Arborcare dot com. That's hamms Arbercaredot com. Even better pick up phone,

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give m a caall this morning eightsix six five nine six five three
nine six that's eight six six fivenine six five three nine six Kevin,
it's always great chatting with you.You enjoy this beautiful day. Thank you,
Sean, you two news comes yourway next year at thirteen ten Wiba