Make it fall where you want it! Check out these tips and techniques for taking down a tree. Make it fall where you want it! Check out these tips and techniques for taking down a tree.

Tools to prune tree branches The size of the branch you are cutting should reflect the tool used to cut it. Here are a few tree trimming tools that make sense to have in your arsenal before you start ...

Don't cut it back to some arbitrary point just to get it out of the way and leave an unattractive stub which will likely resprout. When pruning, you need the right kind of saw.

If you try to cut directly through the top of the branch, as seems logical, the weight of the branch might end up snapping the limb without a clean cut.

A deadly new oak-tree disease can be prevented by pruning them in the dormant season (if needed) instead of spring or summer.