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Good job learnt alot off the video thanks

Thanks for the video and your perspective on the deer, We have Ibex which are very destructive in the heat of summer. Anyway one of the many neglected trees on my new property in Southern Spain is a +/-15 year old apple tree. I want to be able to work it with my feet on the ground as it is planted on a slope, but that will probably mean living with ibex damage.

I beleive the carpentry book is Farm Woodwork, published in 1919, The orchard ladder plan is on pages 117-120 of the PDF found here: ia801606.us.archive.org/11/items/farmwoodwork00roehgoog/farmwoodwork00roehgoog.pdf

Great video I’ll be doing apple tree for my friend soon

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Great informational video! I watch it every year.

Great info and just what I needed. I had to watch it twice because the Benny Hill music running in my head was distracting, but that's on me.

This is one of the best videos on old growth trimming, I really need this , thanks. 🇨🇦

Would like to followup with you one more time. Would you consider banding those two trunks together with a stout fastener, ie a chain wrap or some such other. I ask because I see the hazard that one side of that doubletrunk could be susceptible to snapping to the ground under a hard wind. That's what happened to my gravenstein I told you about. Although she was growing crooked in the first place, she was a lovely tree. She had the same profile, one was heading 90 degrees and the other pointed around 45 degrees.

Hi and thanks for the video. I bought my property which was farmland about 25 years prior. There was a gravenstein apple tree on it and the first two years I had it, it straggled. The tree was about a 14 footer and she had fruit, but only about 4, 5 or 6 on the whole tree. I decided to put her through a multiyear rehab, oh around March it was. Took out about 35% of the overstory. That summer she began jumping through hoops. I mean 2 and 3 fruit at a budsite. She just took off. I filled up a chiquita banana box to the top and sent that parcel post to my family back home. The tree produced huge fruits that were beautiful. I still took a couple bags home for my house too. Same thing the following season. Your right, they spring into action with a little attention! But I wanted to comment on your little pruning saw that you say you hired out someone to sharpen for you. I can't find anyone who sharpens saws anywhere. I called a guy who had a sign out in front of his house and he retired from it. I figured that nobody was doing that anymore. It's nice to hear you have a guy who'll sharpen one for you.

My plum & apple trees have ceased to fruit, as a consequence of wrong pruning¿😮

Blessed is a tree which can host the birds 🦜🕊️

Impressve show👍

Is there an update you can provide a link to? Was very interesting to watch. Thanks!

Very, very interesting and big thanks for the follow-up. We live in Chzech Republic and have neglected, horse bitten, and badly pruned apples, pears and plums up to maybe 30 yrs old. Thx

Can we get an update for 2024 ???

This and the previous video are the best old/neglected apple tree renovation vids I've ever seen. Watching Jim Isleib turn a woolly mess into a handsome (and hopefully productive) tree is extremely satisfying---and instructive! Thanks!

Good video. Should that be done in Winter, cold days?

I watched your first video and then I watched a bunch of others. One of whom was a younger man cautioning against overpruning because of the consequent vertical growth "that you'll be pruning off for years". Came back here and you're all "You'll be pruning these off for a few years and that's okay". A classic case of experience over youth...

I wish I had your confidence... I'm looking at an orchard of about 50 trees overgrown to this level and even worse. Plus a stepmother who hates change... She'd prefer to see old, overgrown, diseased trees than deal with the changes that a good prune would bring.

Sure would love to see the year 3. 😊❤

These two videos are the best old fruit tree rehab tutorials. Very comprehensive with follow up.

Very helpful, and I learned a lot. I would like to get a copy of the plans for that tripod ladder. I don't see a link to do that...

Can you save apple trimmings for rabbits?

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It's been two years, please do another follow up video on this tree. I'm so anxious to see new growth and fruits.

Great pruner and hats off to the camera man/editor. Totally enjoy watching and can watch some more.

Way too aggressive.

Thank you! ❤

My late brother worked for the Ionia branch, before 2008.

Excellent guide to pruning neglected apple trees. I'm also impressed with the tripod stepladder. How do I get a copy of the plans?

The trick to slow down vegetative vigor is prune right as the flower buds are blooming. This one had a ton of suckers growth after no doubt.

Can you update us on this tree?

I am a little late to the channel. Do you still have the plans for the wood orchard ladder?? Thank you!!

Wow! What a plethora of possibilities! Fascinating corn varieties and individual traits. I applaud your efforts. Very interesting and I would love to see how it develops/ findings!

i have one that was set up as an espalier tree with main branches in two directions along fence but i let it grow too much and it is up in power lines and out over lawn how much can i prune of the tree without harming it ?

I agree with your pruning style AND FANTASTIC LOOKING TREE STRUCTURE! If I were larger man it could be a bonsai!!! But seriously, very nice work! Thank you for taking the time and detail to show the viewer.

Ive got an old apple tree thats just all over the place. Currently it has cooking apples which i have very little use for especially in the quantities it is producing plus its taking up my needed sunlight from a small growing space. The plan to prune this winter and then graft desirable varieties come spring. I hope it works out

Agree it's so frekin annoying

How do you get the worms out the tree.😮

very informative, thanks for sharing!

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You’re a legend Jim.

Enjoy ALL the pruning !

50% removel, I trust that tree does not go into juvenile state. If she flowers & bears fruit, you should be ok.

My apple tree is about 7yrs old, 25'tall,beautifully shaped but, i cant even reach the lowest branches. Is there any way i can force it to grow lower branches that i can reach? Or is it too late

Fabulous! Excellent! Terrific demo. Well conveyed! Excellent, knowledgeable expert! AI can't do it as well. Craft is art. Learn from the best artist. 23:23

Not to question your expertise, I'm just a bit confused. Had seen somewhere that we shouldn't cut more than 1/3 of a tree off in a single year. What are your thoughts? This looks like more than 1/3.

Very informative, thank u

fantastic stuff, thanks Jim