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[Steve <sdw12986@aol.com>]

> Where can someone purchase branch spreaders, preferably variable length 
> branch spreaders?  The purpose is to make wide angles on the branches.
Anthony Curcio wrote:
> Bob,
>
> We use wood lath, Menards or Home depot, $3 a bundle. Size it to the 
> spread you want and cut a notch in both ends. If there is a big spread 
> we use a cord with a piece of water hose to protect the branch and a weight.
>
> Anthony z4b

I tried weight once. I added weigh in a location that brought the branch 
almost down to where I wanted it. I figured it would come down farther 
in time. I never got to find out. The wind came up and got the tree and 
the weight waving around. The next day, the branch had been ripped out 
of the trunk and was just hanging.

Steve in the Adirondacks