Sunday 13 September 2009

Techniques - Bracing

Bracing can be used to support a damaged tree during its recovery to full strength but more interestingly, for this blog anyway, it can be used to modify the form of even quite substantial branches.

http://www.tree-consult.org/images/pdf/eng/BracingISA.pdf is a full description of modern approaches to this technique.

Bending has a good chance of success up to a 60 degree angle.

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