Common use of Crown Cleaning Clause in Contracts

Crown Cleaning. Crown Cleaning or cleaning out is the removal of dead, diseased, crowded, weakly attached and low-vigor branches and water sprouts from the entirety of the tree crown. Care must be used to avoid stripping branches of all foliage at the interior of the tree crown.

Crown Cleaning. Crown Cleaning or cleaning out is the removal of dead, diseased, crowded, weakly attached and low-vigor branches and water sprouts from the entirety of the tree crown. Care must be used to avoid stripping branches of all foliage at the interior of the tree crown. This practice, known as "lion tailing" disrupts the structural integrity of the tree, making it subject to limb and branch failure, especially during high winds.