Cuts to ensure safety. This type of cut is usually made on street trees or other trees that grow near residential homes. The purpose of the cut is to ensure the safety of passers-by, vehicles or residents of the house. The cuts are for dead branches, broken or easy to break off due to strong wind; they may cause damage when they fall off. Branches hanging lower than that are also removed to avoid a collision with vehicles 4,5 m over the road, and due to foot traffic, branches growing lower than 2,2 I'm mad on the sidewalks. Tall shrubs or overhanging branches of trees growing in the vicinity of intersections can pose a great threat, if they reduce the visibility of vehicle drivers. The conditions for planting and maintaining plants in such places are governed by special regulations.
Pruning trees and transplanted shrubs. This type of cut is used to create a balance between a diminished root system and the crown, most often when transplanting trees. For this, it is deleted (depending on the degree of reduction of the root system) 20-60% branch. This results in a proportional reduction in transpiration, and therefore water losses, which cannot be supplied in sufficient quantity by the diminished root system. The necessity to limit the size of the crown may also occur in the event of damage and reduction of the root system during earthworks, etc., carried out in the vicinity.. Cutting is then. reducing the number of mainly small branches.