Beech co-dominant branches. Compression / stress fractures?

[treeseer]

Thanks Guy,

 

I think you've given me this link before and I didn't look at our standard then, to see if it's actually compliant over here. I don't think it is but I'll have to have a look.

 

Well 10.4.3 seems limited to screws and bolts, however, since "Any user claiming compliance with this British Standard is expected

to be able to justify any course of action that deviates from its

recommendations.", it would be an easy matter for anyone knowledgeable to justify through-cabling with either of those end-fasteners.

 

"If you took off enough weight to make a significant difference to the splitting force of teh dead load on the basal compression fork, wouldn't that cause the stem to straighten up, transferring compression into the fork and putting unaccustomed loads onto the narrow zone of adaptive growth at the poinbt of included bark? Wouldn't cambium at the margin be crushed?"

 

Jules I don't think the cambium is all that fragile--crushed?--, but you do raise a good point, which supports the approach of not pruning away tree benefits, but instead installing supplemental support.

 

Scraping away the included bark might facilitate grafting of the cambium on both sides, thus ending the inclusion.

 

The rest, why so quick to dismiss options and remove arboreal assets!

[hesslemount]

http://www.cobranet.de/en/pdf/cobra_us_brochure.pdf

 

 

 

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