Anyone else hate Pin Oaks here?

[JOE.G]

I have like 10 Pin Oaks on the Front and side board of my Property, They are mixed in with other types of trees, The Pin Oaks are nice and create a nice barrier, but trimming them is a pain, There branches get stuck together and they scratch the heck out of you, By the time I am done I am bleeding all over.

[Al_Smith]

A pin by it's nature atrophies the bottom limbs as the tree grows and they lack sunlight .They can hang on the tree for years and years before they fall off .

Yeah the limbs are tough old birds about like living barbed wire .

I've seen big old fat ones in fence rows the lower 15-20  feet is nothing but dead branchs which are about like climbing a pine tree .No easy feat at all .

[JOE.G]

I try and keep up with the dead branches, this way I am not cutting off a lot at a time, because they are such a pain to manage, Just moving them to the brush pile is a pain because they lock together.

[Woodwalker]

Best way to control the Pin Oak limbs is to cut 'em off about a foot off the ground :D

[Al_Smith]

Speaking of which ,pin oak one of the trimmers dropped off one a  few years back ,huge .It had chunks over 4 feet in diameter .At the same time he dropped off a honey locust also 4 feet .

There's about 6-8 cords still in my pile that I split the whole mess with an electric splitter before I built my 5 inch gasoline powered  job .Probabley burn that stack or part of it this year .

Pin oak has no commercial value to speak of save firewood or perhaps cribbing .

[Onthesauk]

They're a pain as yard trees too.  Clean up all the other leaves in the fall and then clean up the pin oak in the spring.