I have seen large trees bolted thru to hold them, but this is best left to an expert. It requires a hole to be drilled thru and then a HD all thread run thru and LARGE washers put on, then tightened. The one time I saw it done the arborist first strapped the tree using 3 or 4" wide ratchet straps and pull as much as he could. I think he used 3 of them, above the bolt location. Then he drilled the hole for the bolt. The washers he used were very large and heavy. I think the bolt might have been 3/4" or 7/8". He then drew the nuts tight, both ends of the rod, tightened the straps and did this back and forth, nuts, straps, nuts and so forth. Then he slowly removed the straps, double nutted the rod ends and cut the excess off even. Then he used a pointed punch to lock the nuts from turning. The rod might have been SS or alloy, I don't know. This was done in the late 50's on a large silver maple in my grand parents yard. The tree was then removed as it weakened further in the mid 90's, bolt still intact and not rusted on the outside. The rod ends were still visible but only a little of the outter nust could still be seen, even the mature tree had grown to almost cover the nuts.
Dave
Dave Klish, I recently bought a 2x6 wood fired evaporator from A&A Sheet Metal which I will be converting to oil fired
Now have solar, 2x6 finish pan, 5 bank 7x7 filter press, large water jacketed bottler, and tankless water heater.
Recently bought another Gingerich RO, this one was a 125, but a second membrane was added thus is a 250, like I had.
After running a 2x3, a 2x6, 3x8 tapping from 79 taps up to 1320 all woodfired, now I'm going to a 2x6 oil fired and a 200-425 taps.
Posting Permissions
Reply With Quote