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Beech Trees... hinge cut or kill?
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<blockquote data-quote="JCDEERMAN" data-source="post: 5003632" data-attributes="member: 5787"><p>You'll get a variety of answers to this, as it depends on your goals. There are many areas that need a good beech thinning. I will be doing that in the upcoming months on our place. You can do one of the two methods you mentioned. Just remember, if you hinge-cut, the tree will still be alive and in a few years, there will be stump shoots and also the limbs in the part of the tree you fell over will shoot up towards the sunlight. In a nutshell, hinge-cutting gives more short-term benefits, but causes problems down the road. If your goals are more geared toward the long term, I would totally terminate the tree. Either using your other method mentioned, or the hack-&-squirt method. Hack-&-squirt is what I will do in the short months ahead. Just hack the tree with a hatchet and spray your herbicide in the cut you made. The below is a great video I highly recommend discussing the two:</p><p></p><p>He starts talking about it at the 2:45. Also he talks about hinge-cutting at the 10:00 mark. Not sure why the video title says what it says, but the link is correct</p><p>[URL unfurl="true"]https://www.growingdeer.tv/?ep=505#/improving-whitetail-habitat-and-hunting-hinge-cutting-vs-hack-squirt[/URL]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="JCDEERMAN, post: 5003632, member: 5787"] You'll get a variety of answers to this, as it depends on your goals. There are many areas that need a good beech thinning. I will be doing that in the upcoming months on our place. You can do one of the two methods you mentioned. Just remember, if you hinge-cut, the tree will still be alive and in a few years, there will be stump shoots and also the limbs in the part of the tree you fell over will shoot up towards the sunlight. In a nutshell, hinge-cutting gives more short-term benefits, but causes problems down the road. If your goals are more geared toward the long term, I would totally terminate the tree. Either using your other method mentioned, or the hack-&-squirt method. Hack-&-squirt is what I will do in the short months ahead. Just hack the tree with a hatchet and spray your herbicide in the cut you made. The below is a great video I highly recommend discussing the two: He starts talking about it at the 2:45. Also he talks about hinge-cutting at the 10:00 mark. Not sure why the video title says what it says, but the link is correct [URL unfurl="true"]https://www.growingdeer.tv/?ep=505#/improving-whitetail-habitat-and-hunting-hinge-cutting-vs-hack-squirt[/URL] [/QUOTE]
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