hey Jeff Carter right here with Cartwright landscaping this is going to be a third video we're going to shoot this morning on crate good opportunity while we're doing a big head here today to show you a few quick things so with regards it creeps on there's usually a lot of saplings this this whole head right here it hasn't been pruned ever and we know that despite the natural shape all the way through we're going to be pruning this today taking it down about 45 feet essentially to get rid of the top heaviness you can see these limbs right here on these ones we haven't cut they're already starting to sag as we get foliage in the summertime those those guys are going to be down another two or three feet also if there's ever snow or ice these things really way down you want to cut them to rank cracking in a branching but just to get a good natural look get them shaped up a little bit so that's what we're doing today on over here there are saplings through here we put them with very sharp pruners on this is just a statically saplings will go up left and right it's just clean the tree up making it look better on and when we when we prune them if you look closely on this here's the cut but we've left a little bit of a nub here on the edge and the reason we do that is so the tree can repair itself and come back in and and cover up that wound on the left cuts you have when i create the better this is very important to the tree can hail this puts a little bit of stress on the tree not too much those two outer layer on some people will cut creeps on when they're pruning what we're doing is a naturalistic approach the best way to prune crape a lot of people are they just don't know any better they see other people doing it they think it's the right way to do it they'll come through and it'll hack these crates will cut it here here here here and here and what that does it puts the tree in a terrible spot it opens up the tree not only to disease because these are the main arteries of the tree on but also it opens it up to a lot of stress the big big wounds the main artery same thing you know as if you're a person you little cut here not a big deal you get a cut where you know risky or somewhere else there's a lot more damage that can be done so think about that the same as the crates on so as we're step back here you can look into the crate we've been shaping these up and they got a good shape these are preliminary done we're going to come back here make a few cuts here and there but they got a really nice shape to them there's they look natural and as these grow new growth is going to start wherever we have pruned up at the top so you'll have on looks like a broom effect up at the top there that'll get lost in the canopy the tree when it's when it's when it flushes out and it's high up you don't notice that you focus on the main for a little bit of tree he were cut it right here you had that same effect you have a whole bunch of branches here and in the end you hurt the tree by cutting it well it looks terrible and then you also have you know this is very unsightly kind of wrong shape kind of deal from here growth it just it turns a very nice tree like this and to something that's not really worth looking at in my opinion or our opinion that's why when we turn crate we trim carefully with this naturalistic approach we posted something on Facebook I think a week or two ago from the Virginia Cooperative Extension it tells you specifically step-by-step how to do crates on and have a trim a lot of what I'm saying is a said in those articles to read through that take the opportunity on our Facebook page to look at that on facebook com forward slash Cartwright landscaping on but that's just a summary of pruning this combined with the two other videos we're going to post at the same time on give you a good idea everything you need to cover with regard to crates you should be able to do it by yourself or be able to watch them somebody walled is going to make sure you're doing it right that said the Cartwright landscaping Jeff Cartwright appreciate your time