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    Cabling and Bracing

    Treevet, Nothing to excuse I have played this out serveral dozend times by myself too. I am not trying to proselytize anyone only defending our products against unproofen defarmations. Therefore I want to show interested people our point of view so they can form their own view on tree cabling...
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    Cabling and Bracing

    My opinion and experiences about constant loads of static cables and cambium damages can be read in my previous post. But I have to add a few thoughts that may be interesting. It always has to be distinguished between static and dynamic cablings because they are used for different jobs...
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    Cabling and Bracing

    Jomoco, excuse me but possibly you got me wrong. With 220 lbs I meant the constant load that is on the cable not the breakload (tensile strength) of the cable or system. (cobra ultrastatic has a system breakload of around 14k lbs) To I install a static cabling I use a pulley to pull the...
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    Cabling and Bracing

    Ekka, your are right that there will be some pressure (I guess around 50-100 kg (110-220 lb)) on the bark and the cambium below the loop that may restrict the natural secondary growth of the branch. But that pressure is devided by the contact-surface of the loop thus it is minimized. A...
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    cobra problems

    Hello old timer. Jim1NZ is absolutely right. The installation of the shock absober should be very easy and since 2006/2007 cobra can be installed without lubricant. There are only two reasons why the shock absorber installation could be difficult. 1. The cable has an production error and...
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