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  • From: lucy Owsley <boulderbelt AT voyager.net>
  • To: Market Farming <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Equipment for pruning large fruit trees
  • Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2008 07:13:44 -0400

we have several large fruit trees that my husband deals with using a combination of loppers and saws on long poles, ladders and pruning saws and loppers not on long poles. All of the equipment we have gotten used at auctions and have no particular preference in brands. you also will need either a cherry picker (very very expensive) or a fruit picker on a 12' pole to get at the tops of the trees (oh and again the ladder). we have 2 apple trees and a Kieffer pear that are too tall (over 35') for anyone to get the top fruit so it gets left every year. the trees came with the farm and all were in terrible shape-no pruning or harvesting for at least the past 10 years. This year the pear has beautiful fruit and the apples should have decent fruit in another 2 to 3 years

I feel the real solution is to get a chain saw and "prune" the tree about 12" above the roots and plant dwarf/semi dwarf trees that we can deal with properly.



Lucy Goodman
Boulder Belt Eco-Farm
Eaton, OH







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