Cable Bracing

[Steve Bullman]

chestnut is one tree i dont like to use invasive bracing on.......did some just the other week, couldnt talk the customer into gefa bracing.

[tokaloch]

I think you have to use common sense when bracing and you need to look at what would happen if a failure occured. However, bracing should be inspected at regular intervals and if that is done there shouldnt be any problems

[Bundle 2]

Trouble with invasive bracing is the damage, obviously. No amount of inspections are really gonna do more than tell you that failure looks iminent...the damage is already done.

I think I might have turned the work down Steve...easy to say from where Im sittin' !!?

[Steve Bullman]

well considering i get about 50% of my work from this client thats not an option......i dont think it does any damage to the tree, just not an ideal choice for the wood thats all.

[Bundle 2]

For sure you gotta reckon it does not make the wood weaker...and so more likely to fail. I guess reg inspections at least informs as to reaction wood around bracing sites etc. There is a reason we use non-invasive bracing afterall...but this system would really need inspecting in the same way IMO...?

[Steve Bullman]

its not the issue of it making the wood weaker that concerns me with chestnut, its more wether the wood is strong enough to hold it in the first place.

[Dave the dog]

I have not done a lot over here, this was a Silver Fir I did in Germany in 2002 in the grounds of a drug clinic () I think we used Libra and then went on to Cobra.we took a few feet of the top and put a fairly loose brace in about two thirds up to stop swaying .There was a third stem that had snapped off where the 30m tracked cherry picker dropped me off at full reach (!)

 

 

 

... I was glad to get out of the cherry picker - I think it swayed more than the tree!

[Bundle 2]

Wicked!!

[Dave the dog]

That it was!, I went back over to the left of the pick after i took the tops out , and tryed to make it look a bit more natural . But it 's never going to be as good as before,probably should have left the tops in but thats what he got advised to have done.There was a huge Magnolia right underneath ,that he did,nt want flattening ,i thought about lowering it (for about a second) so i let them go ,luck was on my side and everyone was happy.

[MattyF]

Found tanin in chesnut timber attacks invasive bracing as it does in oak.