I was taught to say “run it through” when needing to run it through the system with no wraps. We also would not use the top cleat, as it would most often slip off in a negative rigging situation when it would flop in the slacking moment.
The 1st picture looks like it for sure. Indeed, it is an opportunistic fungus that takes advantage of a tree when stressed. From what I’ve been told, most susceptible trees have it and live with it, the tree’s natural defenses keeping it at bay to a small colony, until a stress event comes along...
I can personally attest to this. I use to think I just got sick every once in awhile randomly, flu like symptoms, fatigue, chills, fever. The works. A couple years back, I was dumping chips and I had to pitchfork it out. Fairly common, have to do it every once in awhile. This was a particularly...
They are not very good compartmentalizers in my experience. I would put a rod above, and two through the inclusion perpendicular to each other. I like using the Drayer Tree Guard that WesSpur carries for cabling scenarios like that. I don’t usually like to just blurt out how I would do it, but...