PRUNING SHADE TREES. 
1. Remove a limb with two cuts. Make the first cut about 2 feet from the trunk. 
2. Make the second cut close to the trunk, holding the stub until the limb is severed. 
3. Cut completed and tarred. Note that no stub is left. 
4. Showing how a cut heals. This picture was taken 2 years after cut was made. 
