Apple tree prunings are tasty

Have about 18 out of over 50 trees pruned out so far... The deer are loving it! I'm doing my trees some good and feeding the deer at the same time... a very green thing

Could eat them deer to fuel your tree pruning. Its the circle of life!

Exactly, plump them up before fall!

You can see by looking at them deer how mild the winter was this year. They look plump and healthy already!

Save some of those prunings for cooking on the firepit. Green apple branches thrown on the coals make some mighty tasty DEER STEAKS.....

I 'll have loads of branches,,, Have two big piles in my woods from when I did a crown elevation on all 50 trees two years ago... Owner before we bought the place hadn't touched them in 10 plus years... You couldn't even get near or under the trees.. Took me two winters to do the crown elevation work on all 50..Made nice collar cuts so all the cuts healed nice,,, Charlie Overkill

Just like that chicken coop done "overkill-style"...

Sounds like a great place you got there, Charlie. I'm jealous......

Deer meat...Mmmmm....

Apple trees. Just a fine tree all around. They provide apples, firewood, woodworking wood, smoker wood, browse for the deer and blossoms for the orioles and hummingbirds.

Nice pics. Fine looking deer.

Had some deer steaks cooked over apple last weekend. I'd do it again. They were good.

That's one of the ONLY ways I cook 'em......

Disston (Plus their main competitors E.C.Atkins of Indianapolis & Simonds of Fitchburg,Mass) used apple for the handles on their mid level & finest hand saws from the 1870's to the late '30's.Its hard to air dry - even straight grained knot free pieces - very large shrinkage because of its density,can crack & warp/twist a great deal.I have a few planes of that made by several unknown late 19th century artisans.Plus made a 'wheelwright's jarvis (half-round shave) & 1 1/4" rounder plane used in making dowels & rods.

Agreed on that. I have a few apple pieces from the old tree in my yard awaiting a project, but I keep thinking of the difficulty working them up.

Some potters prize apple ash for use in glazes over other wood ash.

I used to save them as snacks for my house rabbits- they loved them

The down side is that those deer are being trained to eat the buds. My freid with an orchard in NH has had his crop ruined a couple of times when deer move in and clean off all the buds on the trees. He ends up with apples on the top branches where they couldn't reach when they were standing up on 4 or 5 feet of snow. He has an electric fence but they will figure out when its tripped and in about 4 or 5 nights will strip every bud.

The deer where eating the buds long before we bought the farm.. but I understand what your saying.. I'll have to get a nuisance permit and thin out the herd