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Default pulling a tree straight

On May 6, 9:14�am, nick hull wrote:
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�KD wrote:
Then things got stupid. �I pulled the truck around front, tied a loop in
the cable, and dropped it over the trailer hitch. �Carefully I inched
forward, but as soon as the cable pulled taut, the ground rod bent, and
the cable slipped off of it. �(this is better than what I expected,
which was the cable snapping and whipping around. �So SWMBO was standing
well away from all this mess.) �It had a good bite in the ground, but
bent right where the clay under-soil gave way to actual topsoil, maybe
9" to a foot below the surface.


Screw in a ground anchor at an angle so the cable pulls STRAIGHT in line
with the anchor. �Look at how the phone co puts guy wires on their poles.

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overall putting tension on the tree is a bad idea.

imagine people walking by, tension device perhaps messed with earlier
by kids snaps, or just breaks for unknown reasons.

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