A beech to trim.

"Half of the trunk circumference is dead, likely due to root girdling. But it must have happened very slowly, as the entire crown is very healthy. Dead trunk tissue is not soft with rot luckily."

After all that time climbing and cutting, how much time did you spend with the roots? Can you see the flare? When I come back to Bmore you gotta show me that thing.

Yknow, some of my zero-profit jobs are the most rewarding. I hear humper on that too, tho.
 
royce,

Why did I use J-lags over eye bolts?

I've only seen one lag in a hardwood pull out, and that was because it was installed too low, too small of a lag, and should have had at least one more cable on that big leader.

I've installed hundreds of cables over the past 14-15 years. Most in sound wood, most with J-lags.

I like how J-lags only effect the cambium on one side of the limb and don't go all the way through the hartwood. I'll use them up to about 10" diameter.

I'll screw them in far enough, where the eye of the dead-end can't come off in big wind movements.

Why did we cut out all the cables?

The only reason is because every one was no longer doing anything. Most cables were gone from rust. One newer one was broken. One J-lag was rusted off and the lag piece was still stuck to the thimble.

The newer one that was broken (and still bright finish) was common grade cable, not EHS.

If there were some still holding, I would have left them.

thanks.
 
rigguy cable stops?

I don't like the idea. But I could be wrong.

I think it's a neat product and probably fast.

But I don't like the idea of a cable being engulfed in the wood so fast.

I'd rather have movement on a thimble thats on a lag or eye.

When I see old cables that have failed, say 25 to 30 year old cables... it's when the wood has grown over the j-lag, the thimble and has engulfed the cable. Where do they break 99% of the time? right where the wood/bark meets on the cable. Why? metal fatigue I think. Movement is right at where the cable meets the wood.

Bend a metal coat hanger back and forth many times in the same point (don't burn your fingers by the way).
 
Can you see the flare?

Heck yeah, evenly, all the way around the trunk and above ground.

I looked over the root flare when I first saw the tree.

It's a big "melted together" single mass. No more individual roots near the flare anymore.

You can see evidence of many past girdling roots that were cutting across major roots, but they have been broken, "disintergrated" or most look like they grafted and got obsorbed by the bigger root.

Absulutely no root pruning to be done.

Maybe way out in the yard, under the soil, there could be some pruning of crossing roots there.

one slightly blurry picture of the root flare area.
 
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It's a big "melted together" single mass. No more individual roots near the flare anymore.

[/ QUOTE ]All that, and half the bark on the circumference is dead, and there is no rot?

Trees are amazing.
 
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