Due to reasons such as pruning, location of growth and species characteristics, trees can grow in ways that don’t endorse long-term health and safety. To counter trees growing in unsafe ways, cabling, ...

My current example involves a 60-inch trunk diameter coast live oak. Half of the tree fell when one component failed in the cable system. Fortunately, there was no “occupancy” under or near the tree — ...

The catastrophic failure of a cable system in a huge coast live oak prompts me to revisit this topic. The failure resulted in the collapse of a large oak and caused severe property damage. With the ...