CRAZY CHAIN? I'm going off the rails. Ay ay ay!

[RopeKnight]

Consulting for the New owner of this over 100 yr old home.

The Sugar may be that old to.

There are three sets of cables/chains in this tree. All in the bottom 1/2.

3/8" chain, 1" rod and weld on eye. There is nothing done right with this chain system and since nothing was done right, it can not be trusted in part or whole and is one big redo. Or remove

 

YouTube - Ropearmour's Channel

 

What do you think?

Crown reduction at the same time.

Should the chains stay?

[RopeKnight]

The cap is a solid plug of concrete. Approxiomately 1000lbs. I worked away at for a couple of hours to get it away from the stems. Real chore!

 

The gravitational forces along with the change in fulcrum as the leaders are pushed in will create some unwanted forces lower in the bole.

we got the go ahead to do the pruning and install a primary cable.

The plug of concrete will be attacked with a product call Dexpan or cut off saw and jack hammer.

 

http://http://www.youtube.com/user/Ropearmour

 

Ozzy reference got zero reply lets try Elvis.

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[Stereo]

Looks like those photo's were taken after a Blizzard. See, I got the Ozzy thing.

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

christ, who done THAT!

[Frank]

Some real thought and effort has gone into that. Haha.

[john p]

proper punk tree that one!