Saw a crew topping a maple in Council Bluffs on Monday and had to bite my tongue

Terry Wood · 2026-09-30T07:55:05.858645+00:00

They were making flush cuts right at the trunk on a 40 foot silver maple, and I knew those wounds would never seal over right. I learned this the hard way on my own parent's tree back in 2009, cost me $800 to take down what I should have just pruned correctly the first time. Has anyone found a polite way to say something to a crew you don't know without starting a fight?

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