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  • From: Lon Rombough <lonrom@hevanet.com>
  • To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Loquat Tree Damage
  • Date: Tue, 8 Feb 2005 13:18:15 -0800

Bolts work well. You can get some that are just a big rod that has been completely threaded. Use the biggest washers you can get. After you are done, saw the bolts off right at the nut. In a few years, the tree will grow around the washers and nut and you'll never know they are there. Just be sure you leave word to anyone who might use a chainsaw on the tree.
Commercial arborists use this technique on massive old shade trees they want to save.
=Lon Rombough
Grapes, writing, consulting, my book, The Grape Grower, at http://www.bunchgrapes.com Winner of the Garden Writers Association "Best Talent in Writing" award for 2003.
On Feb 8, 2005, at 1:00 PM, rob hamilton wrote:

If I had a working drill and a big long bit, I like
the bolting idea, but would wraping a big steal cable
just girdle the tree.

rob

--- Jim Fruth <jfruth@uslink.net> wrote:

Responding to Rob Hamilton's request about
saving his loquat tree, I had
a similar thing happen to one of my best maple sap
producing maple trees.
It had three main top branches. A storm broke one
off and the remaining two
were split apart 6' down the trunk. I winched the
two together as tight as
possible to close the gap between them. Then I
wrapped a 3/8" steel cable
around the two securing the ends with (two) cable
clamps. Wherever there
was a still open gap, I sprayed it full using spray
foam. It worked.

Jim Fruth
Pequot Lakes, MN



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