WE DONT USE SPIKES
Climbing spikes are sharpened steel spikes attached to the climber’s leg by leather straps and padded supports. When these spikes are used on living trees, it is traumatizing to the tree and creates unnecessary damage.
Each puncture from a climbing spike produces a certain amount of tree tissue death, though this varies from tree to tree.
In most cases, isolated wounds will seal, but over time, groupings of spike holes can cause the entire area on the trunk to die back with no chance of recovery. This happens when a tree is repeatedly climbed for pruning while using spikes. Great Green Landscape and Tree Service doesn’t employ the use of spikes while servicing our trees.
