Specifications include, but are not limited to: • Balance: To give the tree an over-all balanced look. • Crown Restoration: To prune in such a way those 1 to 3 sprouts on the main branch stubs are selected to become permanent branches, and to reform a more natural appearing crown. Selected vigorous sprouts may need to be thinned to a lateral to control length growth and to ensure adequate attachment for the size of the sprout. Restoration usually requires pruning several times over several years. • Drop-Crotch Pruning or Crown Reduction: To think out by cutting back limbs to side branches without leaving stubs or right-angle. truncations. • Minimal Limb Removal: To remove only 1 or 2 major lower limbs to balance the overall appearance of the tree, to raise the crown and/or to reduce excess weight on one side of the tree. • Raise Crown/Head: To remove lower limbs and laterals selectively and directionally to a height of 10’ from the ground, cutting limbs back to the point of origin to avoid stubbing. Service definition for Tree Removal: • Remove Tree: To cut down the whole tree and to, as described following, remove the stump. • Root Removal: To, without doing damage to the tree, selectively remove large surface roots starting 3 feet out from the truck of the tree, removing the root to the end of the run, while never removing more than 25% of a tree root system in any one annual root pruning without prior written approval of the University. If required by the University, repair any ensuing landscape area (lawn or desert landscape) damaged by such removal. • Stump Removal: To remove the remaining stump to 12” below the ground level and to remove all exposed roots up to 6’ from the original base of the stump. The Contractor shall remove all chips from the ensuing hole and shall in-fill the hole with planting soil, compacted to ground level. Other Service definitions: • Clean-up: Includes the removal of all dead branches, crisscrosses, nubs, new sucker growth. A general thinning of the tree to give it a neat and organized appearance. • Chipper: Chip and remove all plant material
