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Key Benefits

• Safety
• Health
• Appearance

Tree surgery covers three basic fields: cabling, bracing, and cavity filling.

Cabling is when a cable is installed in the tree to help reduce stress to a limb crotch area.  Cables need to be installed in the proper location and with the proper material.  More harm can come from improper installed cables than leaving the tree alone.

Bracing is when holes are drilled into the trunk, usually around limb crotch areas, and bolts are installed though the tree.   Bracing assists cabling, bracing is usually done with cabling.

Cavity filling is just like what it sounds like.  Cavities are cleaned, washed, and covered.  They are usually covered with concrete but other material can be used.  The purpose of this is to slow or reduce decay in the stem of the tree or limb.  A side affect of filling is that the cavity should grow over the cavity faster, leaving a better looking stem.

   A large hollow in a Water Oak that is beyond repair.            

The same hollow but looking though the tree.

This is a Live Oak with bracing rods installed.

Part of a cabling system installed in a the same Live Oak

Here is the other end of the same cable

Gary Ickes installing the system.

An improper system that was replaced.

Another view of the improper system.

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Last modified: January 02, 2007