Waiting...
  0
 
 
   
 
Lakewood Products Ltd
Lakewood Products Ltd
Home / Blog / July 2020 Wilding Pines
  • About
    • About
    • Pruning Loppers
    • Lopper holsters
    • Electric Trimmers
    • Hoof trimmer
    • Pruning Saws
    • Diamond sharpeners
    • Planting Spades
    • Secateurs
    • Harvesting scissors
    • Long reach pruners
    • Japanese Garden Tools
    • Chainsaw Tools
    • Safety goggles
    • Socks and gloves
    • Blossom thinners
    • About Us
  • Horticulture & Garden
    • Horticulture & Garden
    • Electronic Trimming Shears
    • Pruning Loppers
    • Electric blossom thinners
    • Holsters
    • Pruning Saws
    • Long reach loppers & pickers
    • Secateurs
    • Fruit snips
    • Files and diamond sharpeners
    • Safety goggles
    • Socks and Gloves
    • Chainsaw Tools
    • Japanese Garden Tools
    • Planting Spades
    • Files and Diamond Sharpeners
  • Electric Trimmers
    • Electric Trimmers
    • Hoof trimmer
    • Electric Chainsaws
    • Vine Tying
  • Forestry
    • Forestry
    • Pruning Loppers
    • Lopper holsters
    • Planting spades
    • Pruning Saws
    • Files and diamond sharpeners
    • Pro-lifta-metre-step
    • Safety goggles
    • Chainsaw pocket tool
    • Comfort socks
    • Epi Knife
    • Planting spades
    • Files and diamond sharpeners
  • Trellis Ties
  • Products
    • Products
    • Forestry
      • Back
      • Forestry
      • P100 Pro-Pruner
      • P50 Pro-Pruner
      • Holsters
      • Pruning saws
      • Files and diamond sharpeners
      • Pro-Lifta-Metre-Step
      • Pro-Epi Knife
      • Safety goggles
      • Chainsaw pocket tool
      • Socks
    • Horticulture
      • Back
      • Horticulture
      • Electronic trimming shears
      • P40 Pro-Pruner
      • P30 Pro-Pruner
      • Holsters
      • Pruning saws
      • Long reach loppers & pickers
      • Secateurs
      • Harvesting scissors
      • Files and diamond sharpeners
      • Safety goggles
      • Socks
  • Contact
  • Tech Info
    • Tech Info
    • Arvipo
    • Safe-eyes
    • TopMan Speed Saw
    • Pro-Pruner
      • Back
      • Pro-Pruner
      • How to sharpen pruning loppers
      • How to use pruning loppers
      • How to maintain loppers
  • Retail Outlets
    • Retail Outlets
    • Tauranga
    • Rotorua
    • Taupo
    • Turangi
    • Gisborne
    • Fielding
    • Masterton
    • Wellington
    • Motueka
    • Nelson
    • Richmond
    • Renwick
    • Westport
    • Rangiora
    • Christchurch
    • Wanaka
    • Cromwell
    • Queenstown
    • Int'l Agents
    • Australia
    • Brazil
    • Canada
    • Chile
  • Blog
    • Blog
    • May 2019 Prepare for Autumn Pruning
    • June 2019 blog - Some new pruning tools
    • July 2019 blog - Cleaning your pruning tools
    • August 2019 - Sharpening Pruning Tools
    • March 2020 - Introducing some Traditional Japanese Garden Tools
    • April 2020 - Long Reach Pruning Tools
    • July 2020 Wilding Pines
    • Long reach loppers

July 2020 Wilding Pines

Using pruning loppers to clear wilding conifers

Wilding Conifers

A weed is a plant considered undesirable in a particular situation, "a plant in the wrong place". Examples commonly are plants unwanted in human-controlled settings, such as farm fields, gardens, lawns, and parks. Wikipedia

a wild plant growing where it is not wanted – Dictionary

While pine plantations are the foundation of a huge commercial forestry industry in New Zealand and a major export earner, wilding conifer ‘weeds’, which are made up of a number of different types of conifers but include commercial timber species like Radiata pine Douglas fir, are a problem affecting large areas of rural New Zealand, farm, recreation and conservation land.

So, it’s logical that forestry pruning loppers, developed for pruning pines in plantation forests, are ideally suited for cutting out wilding conifers while they are a manageable size for easy removal and before they reach coning age.

Up to around 60 mm the trunk can be cut off a ground level using the P100 Pro-Pruner loppers. Note: “most conifers will not regrow if all branches and needle formation below the cut are removed. If the stump is carefully cleared of all branches and needles, herbicide treatment of the stump may not be required.” Doc website  

These types of loppers are also idea for removing other problem plants that can quickly spread such as gorse and broom.

Remember, when using a lopper horizontal to the ground the cutting blade should be below the curved (anvil) blade.

Contact us today / Privacy Policy
Online store powered by Online store powered by Storbie