Anyone who tops a tree. Uses pikes to prune a tree. Any one who lion tails a tree. Any one who leaves stubs or flush cuts while pruning a tree. Anyone who peals branches while pruning.
A Tree Hacker is: Someone who removes the top of a tree but leaves the main trunk. Someone who uses spikes, gaffs, spurs on a tree while pruning it. Anyone who leaves nubs or stubs when pruning a branch away from a tree. Anyone who flush cuts branches away from a tree.
by sgreanbean January 3, 2014