photos of old cables
- Thread starter nyclimber
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john.massing
New member
- Location
- Indianapolis
Those are not cobra. They are Dryad or Branch Saver or some equivalent.
john.massing
New member
- Location
- Indianapolis
I have seen cobra do the same type of girdling in pin oaks.
CjM
Participating member
- Location
- Sacramento, CA
Am I too late for this?
Old EHS that was in good shape
Old dynamic that was squeezing the absorber out between the fibers of the cable and girdling both stems. @Stumpsprouts Seen traversing the cable.
A wedge grip system installed entirely too low in a willow removal.
Old EHS that was in good shape
Old dynamic that was squeezing the absorber out between the fibers of the cable and girdling both stems. @Stumpsprouts Seen traversing the cable.
A wedge grip system installed entirely too low in a willow removal.
Stumpsprouts
Been here much more than a while
- Location
- Asheville
I was just thinking about that silver maple and wondering how it was doing.
CjM
Participating member
- Location
- Sacramento, CA
Silver maple, it's in second place at best. Hope you're doing well dude!
Basswood
Carpal tunnel level member
- Location
- Long island
Earlier photos kind of show why I’m wary of the cobra style cables. Have never installed one, but the reality that so many cables are set and forget, homeowner change or some other factor it just doesn’t seem worth the risk.
Basswood
Carpal tunnel level member
- Location
- Long island
Hard to see but this is just thin steel wire and cut garden hose on a wide spread maple. It’s pretty new and have been trying to catch the owner to warn them. 
john.massing
New member
- Location
- Indianapolis
I do not care for the j lag in support systems. Oftentimes in pears and lighter duty applications i will use the smaller diameter eye bolts that go all the way through connected with common grade cable, over thimbles, and hand spliced. I think it is ample and relatively quick.
chiselbit
Been here a while
The homeowner hired one of the local tweeker tree services to install a cable in a big codom cedar next to his house. This is as far as he got and then presumably ran out of meth and disappeared. He had a long drill bit broke off above this and a long spade bit completely through the stem but stuck and abandoned. On the other stem was an eye lag but it was screwed into the stem sideways to the intended pull of the cable. Seems like there was some other random piece of hardware up there too
chiselbit
Been here a while
evo
Been here much more than a while
- Location
- My Island, WA
I wish I had photos of the elm I saw cabled. I started getting super critical of the concrete in the cavity, and the super low ‘cabling’. Whoever installed it used chain instead of cable. It dawned on me that this was probably installed more than 70 years ago, and whoever did it was using the best practices of the time with great care for the tree!
