Tree Pruning w 28 Ga

[Armorer 101]

Have a bunch of pecan trees, suckers and small limbs too high to reach, no bucket truck, a 28gs reloader and a 28 ga Citori 525. so....the why not factor light clicked to the on position. Little while had pruned pecan trees. Took a picture of the small pile with my clays cart.

 

[Cvans]

I do the same thing with a .20 gauge. Works great for removing caterpillar nests.

 

[Eutycus]

Any close neighbors will either think you nuts and call the law on you.

 

[PapaG]

I used to cut off bag worm nests high in my choke cherry tree with an 870, 34" full choke barrel and a subsonic 1 1/2 ounce load of 9s. My neighbor, 50 yards away thought I was shooting a pellet gun.

 

[Remington1911]

Any close neighbors will either think you nuts and call the law on you.

Joys of living free and in the country.

For me it is those spiders that build their nests in the trees in the fall.

 

[Armorer 101]

I use a 20 for the pecan worms, high up in the trees, If you open a hole in the worm webs, their natural predator, a small wasp, can get in through the web to the worms and kill them or lay eggs on them and then the wasps also kill the next generations of worms. Works better than spray, just a bit more noisy.
Got a scare one day, while shooting worm webs as I was looking up into the tree to get a clear shot, stepped on, two very large Indigo snakes mating in the taller grass, in the shade of a pecan tree. Geez, that stepping on mushy, knowing instantly it is a snake, while looking up, is interesting, for a couple of seconds. Left the two good snakes go about their business , moved over to other trees..

 

[Eutycus]

Joys of living free and in the country.

For me it is those spiders that build their nests in the trees in the fall.

It was a real experience , especially when the deputy Sheriff told the neighbor that what I was doing was perfectly legal. I was on my property in an unincorporated town.

 

[Col. Harrumph]

Any close neighbors will either think you nuts and call the law on you.

Or even a distant neighbor, if you live where I do.

 

[aaaaa]

I heard you can go fishing with a shotgun too! Quite the versatile tool.

 

[d2wing]

I cut down a Christmas tree that way once.

 

[jmorris]

I have only used that method for gathering mistletoe.

If I can't get to it with a FEL and pole saw, I do use a "gun" of sorts. This PVC tube has an ID, just right for a 45 acp case. I run fishing line through the flash hole and tie off and connect a reel with the hose clamps and shoot over branch and bring around string, rope, cable, and pull the branch off.

 

[21H40]

It is traditional to argue about appropriate caliber (gauge) and load type. I'm a little surprised that your choice of 28 hasn't been questioned already.
The internet has taught me that the only important shotgun is 12 gauge, so I'm horrified that you may have left some twigs and branches wounded and in agony! /s/
More seriously, do you use trap loads, bird shot, or something more exotic? Steel?

 

[Shodan]

I used a 12 Gauge to prune a branch that had sagged down and blocked my Direct TV signal.

 

[Snowdog]

This is the kind of yard work I can warm up to! I hope my HOA can as well.

 

[Cvans]

Any close neighbors will either think you nuts and call the law on you.

Not out here. We live in a shoot first area. Couple of years ago we fired off 1,500 rounds of shot gun ammo in two days and no one blinked. I like living in South Dakota.

 

[cfullgraf]

Pruning branches with a 28 ga is fine if it works but I'd think using a less expensive shell/gun, like 12 or 20 ga, would be more prudent regardless of being able to reload the hull. 28 ga is expensive enough and I'm a fan of 28 ga shotguns.

The only "pruning" I do with a shotgun is discouraging some birds from pecking at our log home. I chase the birds to leave the house and light in a neighboring tree, then pop them with the 12 ga.

 

[DeepSouth]

I have an old oak that’s full of mistletoe I need to shoot up. Been a while since I trimmed with a shotgun, fortunately it doesn’t take much to knock down mistletoe.

 

[Eutycus]

Looks like a good idea, my wife suggested we sell our ladders. She said "ladder-climbing-days" were over for this old man.

 

[Simple Shooter]

Great for hornet nest, too.

 

[Cvans]

I can agree with the ladder thing. The last one I rode to the ground was a 12 footer. Do you know concrete is a LOT harder than it used to be?

 

[JimKirk]

I shot one my model rockets down out of a tree a time or two... does that count...

 

[P5 Guy]

I can agree with the ladder thing. The last one I rode to the ground was a 12 footer. Do you know concrete is a LOT harder than it used to be?

Technically, concrete never stops curing. In fact, concrete gets stronger and stronger as time goes on. But, as far as we’re concerned, to reach a practical strength, most industrial concrete mixes have a 28-day curing period1. Contrary to popular belief, concrete never really stops hardening. This continuous hardening occurs as the cement particles in the mix react with water, forming molecular connections. These connections continue to solidify over time, causing the concrete to harden further2. So, while it may not be noticeable after a certain point, concrete does indeed keep getting stronger!

 

[drobs]

I use this to weed wack around my gongs. A couple boxes of 12 gauge will knock those weeds down!