How to wrap a tree with Christmas lights
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- čas přidán 12. 06. 2024
- Do you want your Christmas display to be the brightest on the block? In this video, I will show you how to wrap Christmas lights in a large tree like a professional. Make your Christmas display shine bright and make all your family, friends, and neighbors smile. I will also walk you through the steps on how to calculate the number of strands you will need.
All the trees that are shown in this video I personally wrapped by hand. I used an extension ladder, but you can use a lift if you would like. Wrapping trees like these are a passion of mine and I take a considerable amount of time to complete each one. I have been wrapping trees like these for years at our personal Christmas display which was featured on ABC’s “The Great Christmas Light Fight” in 2019. We were season 7 episode 4 and we were fortunate enough to WIN!
All the lights and materials I use are commercial grade to ensure they work for many years. I highly recommend using these products!
Have fun with this project and most importantly, BE SAFE! Good luck and Merry Christmas!
-Jordan
All the materials can be found at the link below:
www.holidaylightingcreations....
You will also need a large ladder. I use the little giant ladder and find it works the best.
www.lowes.com/pd/Little-Giant...
In the video, you will see a nail at the bottom of the tree that my lights are attached to. That nail has been in the tree for years so I decided to use it. I DO NOT recommend putting nails in a tree to attach your lights. All you need to do is tie the plug around the strand when you come back around for the first wrap. You can use a zip tie if that is easier for you.
Coming from someone who wraps trees for 3 months out of the year, I'd say the only major thing that might make it easier to do this process is wrapping from the tips of the branches towards the tree. It eliminates some guess work and will save you from having to use excess lights and wrap them back into themselves. Also dark or brown colored cordage to tie between the light spacing so it doesn't sag on trees with smoother bark like a beech or Japanese maple for example. All in all good work on the video!
If you start from the tip of the branch to the trunk, how do you cover the other branches? Is it a different string of lights or do you take the bulbs off?
Thank you for sharing your knowledge. I couldn't do this, but appreciate your effort and other homeowners who go to the trouble and expense to share the joy and beauty of the season with others.
This video should have THOUSANDS more views! Thanks for the formulas and showing the entire process! This looks fantastic!
Those trees have a great shape to them too. Makes them look even better. Awesome job on them!
This video is EXACTLY what I was looking for! Thank you SO much!! And for your links in the description. Very helpful! I can’t afford to go all out with my tree like this (even though it is exactly what I want), but maybe I will do a few strands a year until I get there. Or die first of old age. 😂😅 Your trees look phenomenal! ❤👏🏽
Thank you for an INSANELY USEFUL video!!! I decided to put lights on my front yard tree this year, and I found your video, and WOW - Great tips, and EXCELLENT instruction. I am using many of your basic tips and insight! THANK YOU SO MUCH for taking the time to create this video! I'm getting started with the lights on my tree, and thanks to your video, it's looking GREAT so far! THANK YOU! Happy Holidays!!
I. Have. Got. To. Get. Some. Of. That. Wire. For years I've struggled with trying to run lights in trees and trying to figure out how to run the next set of lights so it doesn't look stupid. Thank you for showing us this. 🌲🌲🎄
That is magical. Absolutely beautiful.
The simplest of holiday lighting is still the most exquisite. Just stunning!
I absolutely love the look of those trees you've done up in lights! The house is so minimal, bc the trees are & imo, always should be the star of the show! **(unless you don't have trees, then shrubbery etc. Would be my 2nd, then the house or permanent human buildings or garages etc.) I will say I also love a nice light up, elevated ddck off a house, that's looks so nice too! I actually did mi e this year bc I could finally afford the lights and electric fir it lol. Your trees have so much character with all the twists & bends, it looks so beautiful and majestic at night! How wonderful to see people, young people especially. Taking thr time to pur up such beautiful Xmas lights. It holds such a pleasant sentimental place for me! Love to see them! Thank you, it was very informative and helpful! 👍🤗💯
Beautiful..... I love the beautiful lights and so professional looking. You did an amazing job. Thank you for sharing.
Beautiful. I really could understand exactly what you were doing. Great teaching
Impressive! Just beautiful!! I always wondered what details were in this process. Very professional and it makes the children feel happy as well as their adult family members bringing them in to enjoy ;>
Thank you so much for this video!! I love this trees!! So Beautiful!! Wow!!🌲
Thank you for the teaching. Great examples! 🌲
Wow, that looks awesome! Thanks for sharing your knowledge.
Dude. Thank you!!! Greatest Christmas light video ever
Truly breathtaking I could stare at those trees forever
Beautiful! Looking forward for more videos. Christmas season is around the corner.
I always wanted to learn how to do that. I’m glad I found your video. Thank you for sharing!
DUDE That's alot of work. But It STUNNING>>!! FANTASTIC..
Beautiful. Thank you for your leadership. I can tell you are a master!
I ain't got enough coffee in me right now to follow along with the math 😩😭. I'll be back in 8 hours ☕.
Dude that is absolutely spectacular! Killer job!
Forget about the house, the trees will do. Thank you for sharing this, I did not know where to start.
Thank you so much, you are doing an amazing job and best wishes with your new business!!
Thanks for the demo and links!
Beautiful!
So beautiful !
The lighted trees are like gigantic table lamps.
Really great job. I so enjoy enjoy Christmas decorations.
Wow! Great job decorating that three. Looks amazing! Thank you for taking the time to upload this video and for teaching us how do measure. New subscriber.
Did you drop out of school in the 5th grade?
@@DiffEQ did that comment make you feel any better? Just curious.
Bruh .. mvp award.
Gorgeous! Thanks!
Seriously, I’ve always wondered how this was done! Now I know! Too much math for me 😁 Thank you for the share!
Beautiful and great tips
your trees look beautiful!!!!!!!!!!!!! Thanks for tips
Very helpful to do my tree and I felt like I was in the Hill Country at Christmas Time.
Wow! Stunning!
Looks so Beautiful!!!!!!
Great job. Thanks for sharing.
Thanks for sharing. You did an amazing job. Cheers.
Outstanding job 👍👍👍
I have to say it looks inviting as if it was a Hallmark card picture you did an awesome job man I'm sending all these to my wife and of course it's now on the to-do list thanks LOL
Incredible…wow!!! 🤩
I’ll add the obligatory: Ain’t nobody got time for that!! 😂. But seriously, this looks awesome! Superb work :)
Beautiful👍🏻
So beautiful!! ♥ ♥ ♥
Thanks. Amazing.
Hi, and Merry Xmas 2022! From the uk so I’m guessing you guys would say “Happy Holidays”! Your tress looks absolutely beautiful!!! X
Awesome video! Thanks for sharing your expertise
thanks for teaching me
Thank you🌲🎄💡
Love it!
Amazing!
Just the video I needed. Did not realize tree wrapping would be so technical, and now I see why I don't do it. Was on the fence, but now strongly discouraged to try this. Eave lights alone it shall be!
Can you tell us why you don't encourage trying?
Damn... that tree looks amazing; great job
Wow you are amazing!!!
bEAUTIFUL! AND MAGICAL!
holy crap I would pay someone just to do the math!! thank you this was awesome
Thanks great info….love the math!
Many apprecatiosn for your share and great video. It's first time for me. I didn't know how to do. It's very helpfule for me. Thank you so much again! Happy Christmas to you!
Thank you so much for that! That was very helpful. I've been wanting to know this information for years!!
Great tips, thank you! I think that with all the time and trouble, I'd just leave them year-round.
This is awesome
Perfect
LEGEND!!
Thank you.
Incredible 👍🏻👍🏻👊🏻👊🏻
Great job
I priced out 5mm mini lights online and they're $26.64/each for 70-count commercial-quality lights. 79 strands times $26.64 (not including shipping of those lights) is $2,104.56. That's quite the expensive decoration for a single tree. That said, it does look amazing! Well done...
And the pain of taking it down later.
That's exactly where my mind went too. I love the design, but the expense is over the top. Also, the labor to put them up and take them down is a bit over the top.
Ya this dudes a little nuts. I thought he was saying “7 to 9” at first haha. When I realized he was saying 79 strands for one tree I decided this shit ain’t for me 😂
The ones he uses are linked in the description and much cheaper than the ones you mentioned. That being said, it’s still way outside of my budget. But I might do a few. 😅
I bet he does this as a business for folks who can afford it.
I love this idea, I would never take these lights down, they can be used year-round!!
The squirrels will chew on them.
I agree...they would look nice all year round! 👍🏻
The sun will bake them. They aren't made for prolonged UV exposure. Granted they will have some degree of protection once the leaves come on.
Not to mention the tree grows
Amazing
AMaziNg job!!!!❤
Wowww Que hermoso ❤
😮😮My friend does landscaping and lawn mowing. But he said he makes a good money in winter by setting up and taking down Halloween and Christmas decorations.
Wahhhhh so nice
Im cringing at the memory of me at 15 asking the math teach "When am I ever going to use Algebra in real life?". Using the circumferance to calculate strand length is super smart!
Wow! What an amazing job! I'd hire you in a heartbeat because you're as much about perfection as me! Also, you just gave me the confidence I need to try these vampire plugs. Thank you!
Thats soooo beautiful.
Superr
Amazing job
Wow!
WOW what a fabulous video. Nicely done. Does look like some work to get this task done, but very impressive
😳 wow!
WOW!
Exelente.
That's an awesome tree!
How long did that take you
You showed us the math, I loved it!
Been wanting to light the Japanese maple which would look great but not take nearly as many lights. I had kind of figured out how to do it but his video has several tips I would not have thought of. Just wish it was warm enough here to wear shorts and a t-shirt while I do it. lol
You’re an animal!!!!! Happy Holidays..
Beautiful job!
Love the outdoor waterproof electrical safety in America 👀
I had no idea it was that easy to make an extension cord.
Great video! Do you have a video showing how to prep the light strands to make them easier to unroll as you work around the tree?
I don’t know which video we originally watched to start wrapping ours, but we’ve been wrapping ours in balls for years. It makes it easier to store without tangling all the lights, and easier to on put on trees and or bushes when you get them out every year.
Wonderful video, I'm in! Question... do you leave them up year round once wrapped? If not, any tips for taking the lights off?
I wrap a Palo Verde trunk with tiny encased diffused yellow leds. Most stay on but 1 in 5 randomly pulse off and back on slowly.About 200 a strand and the trunk is (this year) about 5" in diameter shrinking to about 4" where it splits off the main branches. Each strand wraps around at least 20 times. I tie-tie the beginning at the bottom and spiral up about 4 fingers apart. The branches I then go up one about 8 fingers apart and then come back down in the middle for the branches until I run out of lights. took me two years to figure that out. Using tie-ties to hold in place. I don't mind not having a helper to put them up, but un-wrapping to take down is a pain.
I think, I am going to figure out a way to run lengthwise to get the same effect but avoid the wrapping. 14 wraps doesn't even get to the branches, but they sure look great.
So is this for the holidays or allyear?
I love it
Sooooo beautiful and magical!!!!! Please do mine trees!!!!
Thanks for an amazing video! Can you do a video of how to wrap around joints where the trunk splits into two? Mine keep getting loose and sagging over time. Haha