We have been butt pruning our Fraser Fir for several years.  We are putting 8 to 10″ handles on the trees so consumers and retailers can easily display trees.  We started doing this because during our 15 years running retail lots we had so many experiences of selling a beautiful tree and then trimming the bottom limbs off only to find that we had created a huge hole in the tree and had actually ruined it to a large degree. Butt pruning solves this problem.

Many retailers say that they do not want their trees butt pruned because they want to use the greenry to make wreaths.  We empathize and sell precut greenry at a very minimal cost to people who buy our trees.

Currently about 60% of our trees are butt pruned.  If you have a preference let us know.