Kevin
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I have a good size limb to tackle tomorrow.
It has peeled away from the tree but is still attached.
At the tree, the tension wood now becomes the compression wood because of the pressure applied by the steel support strand holding the cables. The felling cut would be made from below but the branch is so large that it could possibly catch the saw and take it for a ride so I found the safe way to tackle these is to keep tension on the strand with a rope and hack away at the top until the limb is removed but the tension is extreme!
That`s what makes it interesting .
It has peeled away from the tree but is still attached.
At the tree, the tension wood now becomes the compression wood because of the pressure applied by the steel support strand holding the cables. The felling cut would be made from below but the branch is so large that it could possibly catch the saw and take it for a ride so I found the safe way to tackle these is to keep tension on the strand with a rope and hack away at the top until the limb is removed but the tension is extreme!
That`s what makes it interesting .