If you need to shape overgrown trees and shrubs, you need heavy-duty pruners. Thankfully, this suite of serious tools lets you stay on the ground as you work
If you try sawing through in one go, the limb will break and rip a strip of bark off the trunk, exposing it to decay. To prevent that, make three cuts:
(1): About 6 to 12 inches from the trunk and a third of the way through the underside
(2): About 1 inch farther out and all the way through
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