Cabling & Bracing
What is Cabling & Bracing?
Tree service professionals can use cabling and bracing to keep the tree stable in windy conditions.
There are two main types of cable or brace techniques: one is an exterior installation that supports branches from outside the bark, while other type of technique involves drilling a hole through the branch’s trunk into its center for support from within.
Cable systems provide external stability by connecting cables around major limbs just out side of their bark with cables running up along strong upper sections called scaffolds. Brace technologies install holes drilled inside a large branch’s trunk where metal rods are inserted to help stabilize shifting weight between different points on top portions like scaffolds.
Benefits of Cabling and Bracing
The exterior installation of cables are good for trees with few low hanging branches.
Cables installed inside the trunk can be placed at any point in a tree's height, making them ideal for all sizes.
Bracing is not as invasive to a tree's bark and needles as cabling; it only requires drilling one hole into the outer shell where metal rods are inserted from within.
Cable systems offer external stability by connecting cables around major limbs just outside their bark with cables running up along strong upper sections called scaffolds.
Risk of not having a Cabling and Bracing a Tree
One risk of not taking the time to cabling and brace your tree is that in a storm, branches may break off from high winds or the wind can damage heavy limbs. These branches or limbs could fall and damage property, injure someone or destroy the tree.
The cost of not taking time to cabling and brace your tree is more than just the price tag for these services. These branches or limbs could fall and cause injury to people below them if they hit on their way down, as well as causing destruction to any property it falls in contact with on its path towards earth ground zero.
Another possible outcome when no attention was given to bracing trees against storms are large limb failures which mean a much larger cleanup job for you after all has been said and done because you weren’t proactive and did what you should have.
The best solution is to get a professional from Tree Service Rogers out to your property as soon as possible after the storm has passed through and done its damage so that they can assess the situation for themselves, help brace trees up against winds if necessary or remove any big branches which pose potential dangers waiting there in wait to cause an accident at some point during their lifetime.
Cabling and Bracing a Tree
A tree should be cabled or braced when it has few low hanging branches, cables are installed inside the trunk to make them accessible at any point in height of a tree.
Braces connect metal rods inserted from outside bark with cables running up along scaffolds. Cable systems offer external stability connecting cable around major limbs just outside their bark and can run upwards on strong upper sections called scaffolds.
