Jaberwky17
Shohin
I noticed an interesting wiring detail on another thread and thought I'd share my technique for creating a guy line anchor point on a trunk. In this case I'm attempting to put a gradual trunk bend on a tall picea. I was able to use a tubing protected wire collar at the base with no danger of slippage, but he upper anchor point was a problem. A collar wouldn't work because it wants to slip down due to the pressure on the guy line. None of the branches up there are even close to being strong enough to handle it either. So I created a loop out of heavy gauge copper, wrapped the top and bottom around the trunk once, and used lighter copper to wrap these points as well. If I was wiring the trunk in the normal way all the way up I could have created the same loop but regular wiring wouldn't do any good on this one. By inserting the notched wood block I can create just the right bend.
