Tree Cabling Service: Preventing Storm Damage in Co-Dominant Trees
At Tree Fellers LLC, the health and longevity of your trees is our top priority. If you have a tree that has developed an unusual shape, sudden or extreme lean, or injury, you've come to the best tree cablers in Nashville to preserve their structural integrity.
Tree cabling is used to correct structural issues in trees before they go too far. In cases that pruning and gradual solutions can't fix, a proper cable job will keep a tree healthy and stable for years to come, preventing tree splitting even against nasty injuries. Consider cabling if your tree has experienced:
Cases in need of immediate cabling include:
Cabling is also used as a preventative measure, before trees have shown any sign of buckling. Consider a consultation if your tree has a v-shaped trunk or far sideways lean, or if you plan to ask you tree to hold significantly more weight than it's accustomed to. |
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Tree Cabling Service in Davidson, Robertson, and Sumner County Tennessee
When done by a qualified professional, installing cables in trees is safe and unobtrusive. The informed client will have many understandable concerns, including:
Will Cabling Harm My Tree's Integrity?Because cabling involves drilling hardware into your tree, it's understandable to worry about the tree's health. Tree bark is, after all, your tree's main defense against disease, much like our own skin.
But if the bark of the tree is its skin, then consider cabling a suture. Its role, whether preventative or reactive, is to prevent a larger split through which disease or fungus could enter. While one hole is strategically introduced wherever hardware is needed, the rest of the bark remains intact, still surrounding the majority of the trunk's circumference. Healthy trees in the wild experience intrusions larger than cable hardware all the time, as a part of the tree's healthy and natural lifespan.
Can I Cable A Tree By Myself?Although cabling, done properly, is a simple and efficient measure, it requires a trained eye and hand to accomplish without compromising the tree bark. If the bark is compromised incorrectly, it will result at best in the death of the affected limb, and, at worst, in the death of the whole tree.
This compromising of the bark, known as "girdling," can occur even in homemade solutions where no drilling is involved. If a limb is hanging low or unsteadily over a walkway, for example, it may seem like common good sense to wrap something under or around the limb to tie upward, like a sling. Though this looks less invasive on the surface, it retains the same danger: The limb will grow thicker over time, and the "sling" (if it can bear the weight to begin with) will constrict it. Eventually, this constriction results in the same loss of bark around the circumference of the tree or limb, and the same eventual death.
While DIY solutions may seem enticing, there's no reason to engage in risk to your tree's life or health with simple, professionally-trained solutions available.
How Long Can I Wait?Cabling can be used both as a treatment and a preventative measure. With that said, it can only preserve living and uninfected trees and limbs—cabling alone won't reverse a disease that has already entered through a split in the tree, and nothing will reverse tree death or limb death.
If your tree has an open wound or split, however, all isn't lost for certain yet. A trained professional can examine the split to determine whether a fungus, disease, or pest has entered the tree. If one hasn't, the solution may be as simple as cabling. If one has, Tree Fellers LLC is experienced in diagnosing and treating all sorts of ailments. In this case, cabling would be one part of a holistic solution to prevent further harm, while the rest of the work focuses on recovery.
Where Can I Find Qualified Cabling? Tree Fellers LLC is proud to provide the best tree cabling Nashville, TN has to offer. This means if you live in the surrounding Hendersonville, Goodlettsville, Gallatin, Portland, White House, Brentwood, Franklin, or Springfield, TN, Tree Fellers LLC will happily make the drive out to serve your area. Our qualified arborists are committed to the natural beauty of Tennessee, and dedicate their careers to ensuring healthy, strong trees that are able to thrive and to enhance your property. Tree Fellers LLC prides itself on providing responsive, environmentally conscious, client-minded work, and on getting the job right every time.
If you're concerned about a tree's structure, injury, crack, or lean, contact Tree Fellers LLC to find out if cabling is the right solution for you.
Will Cabling Harm My Tree's Integrity?Because cabling involves drilling hardware into your tree, it's understandable to worry about the tree's health. Tree bark is, after all, your tree's main defense against disease, much like our own skin.
But if the bark of the tree is its skin, then consider cabling a suture. Its role, whether preventative or reactive, is to prevent a larger split through which disease or fungus could enter. While one hole is strategically introduced wherever hardware is needed, the rest of the bark remains intact, still surrounding the majority of the trunk's circumference. Healthy trees in the wild experience intrusions larger than cable hardware all the time, as a part of the tree's healthy and natural lifespan.
Can I Cable A Tree By Myself?Although cabling, done properly, is a simple and efficient measure, it requires a trained eye and hand to accomplish without compromising the tree bark. If the bark is compromised incorrectly, it will result at best in the death of the affected limb, and, at worst, in the death of the whole tree.
This compromising of the bark, known as "girdling," can occur even in homemade solutions where no drilling is involved. If a limb is hanging low or unsteadily over a walkway, for example, it may seem like common good sense to wrap something under or around the limb to tie upward, like a sling. Though this looks less invasive on the surface, it retains the same danger: The limb will grow thicker over time, and the "sling" (if it can bear the weight to begin with) will constrict it. Eventually, this constriction results in the same loss of bark around the circumference of the tree or limb, and the same eventual death.
While DIY solutions may seem enticing, there's no reason to engage in risk to your tree's life or health with simple, professionally-trained solutions available.
How Long Can I Wait?Cabling can be used both as a treatment and a preventative measure. With that said, it can only preserve living and uninfected trees and limbs—cabling alone won't reverse a disease that has already entered through a split in the tree, and nothing will reverse tree death or limb death.
If your tree has an open wound or split, however, all isn't lost for certain yet. A trained professional can examine the split to determine whether a fungus, disease, or pest has entered the tree. If one hasn't, the solution may be as simple as cabling. If one has, Tree Fellers LLC is experienced in diagnosing and treating all sorts of ailments. In this case, cabling would be one part of a holistic solution to prevent further harm, while the rest of the work focuses on recovery.
Where Can I Find Qualified Cabling? Tree Fellers LLC is proud to provide the best tree cabling Nashville, TN has to offer. This means if you live in the surrounding Hendersonville, Goodlettsville, Gallatin, Portland, White House, Brentwood, Franklin, or Springfield, TN, Tree Fellers LLC will happily make the drive out to serve your area. Our qualified arborists are committed to the natural beauty of Tennessee, and dedicate their careers to ensuring healthy, strong trees that are able to thrive and to enhance your property. Tree Fellers LLC prides itself on providing responsive, environmentally conscious, client-minded work, and on getting the job right every time.
If you're concerned about a tree's structure, injury, crack, or lean, contact Tree Fellers LLC to find out if cabling is the right solution for you.