#3 Pruning Works - for high quality timber

About this episode

The episode discusses the techniques and benefits of pruning trees for high quality timber with expert Josquin Tibbits.

My guest to talk about pruning trees for high quality timber is Josquin Tibbits; professional Arborist and Forest Scientist. Josky has been harvesting and milling pruned trees for his own building project. We discuss why, how, when and with what to prune young trees in order to confine branch knots to a central core and increase the proportion of high quality timber that can be recovered from the logs. On the Bambra Agroforestry Farm we have been pruning more than 70 different tree spec...

People in this episode

Host: Rowan Reid

Guest: Josquin Tibbits

Topics covered

• pruning
• timber quality
• arboriculture
• forest science
• agroforestry

Keywords

• pruning
• high quality timber
• arborist
• forest scientist
• tree management

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Bambra Agroforestry Farm

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