Corrective Pruning

Winter chores on the tree farm include corrective pruning.

Tools of the trade...

What to do about this bur oak?

Limb it-up being careful to never take more than a third of the branches.  Return in the next couple of years to continue to train it straight and tall.

Not sure at all what to do about this fork.  

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Giving it another year or so to see if the limb on the right asserts itself as the dominant main leader.