{"id":26420,"date":"2019-11-27T09:08:59","date_gmt":"2019-11-27T15:08:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/richardbarron.net\/giantmuh\/?p=26420"},"modified":"2025-05-08T18:36:00","modified_gmt":"2025-05-09T00:36:00","slug":"limb-lopping-and-knee-kronking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/richardbarron.net\/giantmuh\/2019\/11\/27\/limb-lopping-and-knee-kronking\/","title":{"rendered":"Limb-Lopping and Knee-Kronking"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"The<\/a>
The Fiskar limb loppers are the key to this whole operation.Richard R. Barron — richardbarron.net<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

With a weekend during which I am not teaching last Monday and a period of warmish weather, I decided to prune my fruit trees for the first time in a couple of years. This task became more significant due to last summer’s nearly perfect growing season, which made my trees grow wildly.<\/p>\n

\"You<\/a>
You might intuitively imagine that pruning back branches to stumps is harmful to trees, but a fair human analog might be trimming your fingernails.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Fruit tree owners know that keeping your trees cut back is a good idea for several reasons.<\/p>\n

    \n
  1. Shorter, stouter branches can hold fruit better during windy conditions and as fruit weighs branches down.<\/li>\n
  2. Fewer fruit on shorter branches mean individual fruit will be bigger.<\/li>\n
  3. Trees taller than about eight feet require a ladder or lift to harvest, whereas short trees can be harvested by anyone without any additional equipment.<\/li>\n
  4. Pruned trees have space between each other for moving and harvesting.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    So for the last few days I’ve been using a Fiskars\u00ae brand limb lopper to cut back as many runaway branches as I was able to reach. It’s been pretty effective, and most of the work is done.<\/p>\n

    However, during an attempt to remedy an extra-high, extra-thick branch tonight, I pushed a little too hard, and mistakenly relied on a branch that immediately collapsed, kronking the sh!t out of my left knee.<\/p>\n

    Yeah, that’s going to leave a mark.<\/p>\n

    \"Hawken<\/a>
    Hawken says he saw the whole thing, but he’s not willing to implicate anyone.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    With a weekend during which I am not teaching last Monday and a period of warmish weather, I decided to prune my fruit trees for the first time in a couple of years. This task became more significant due to last summer’s nearly perfect growing season, which made my trees grow wildly. Fruit tree owners…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,20,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-abby-and-richard","category-our-patch-of-green-in-oklahoma"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/richardbarron.net\/giantmuh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/richardbarron.net\/giantmuh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/richardbarron.net\/giantmuh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/richardbarron.net\/giantmuh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/richardbarron.net\/giantmuh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26420"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/richardbarron.net\/giantmuh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26420\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32674,"href":"https:\/\/richardbarron.net\/giantmuh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26420\/revisions\/32674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/richardbarron.net\/giantmuh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/richardbarron.net\/giantmuh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/richardbarron.net\/giantmuh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}