Will_Heath

After reading a few threads here about creating a trunk chop that would result in a perfect transistion between the trunk and the new leader without the usual extreme curve I did some thinking.

I believe I came up with a mix of techniques that would solve this problem. I post it here only to get experianced thoughts on it before I attempted it on a tree.

I have read before where if you have a branch that is to massive to bend that you could take a angled slice out of the bottom and move the branch down to fill the removed area.

Is it possible to perform a trunk chop as usual, with a angled cut and then remove an angled piece from the trunk on the chopped area? Wedging a cut where the bark is already been removed, allowing you to bend the trunk back to fill the void and thus effectively bring the new leader in direct line with the trunk?

I believe that this will create a smooth transistion between trunk and new leader with minimum scarring.

Please let me know if you think this is a workable idea as I have a tamarack that was chopped this spring and I believe this would be the perfect subject for an experiment

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