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Thanks for the discussion gents...gives me some more information to go on, remediation of dangerous limbs, and judicious pruning of dead and live wood after that. OM, I see plenty of that one on top of the other split heavy limb scenario...gets interesting...

Duct tape...8)

Yup, sound advice, thanks! I tell people I can always take more off, but I can't put it back once its gone, I tell them lets take a bit now, let the tree recover and adjust then do some more...the rational explainations do seem to get through with most people.

I'm actually in Tasmania right now... This first pic is one I had to cut the broken branches out of, the second one I is just one I saw on a visit, pretty extreme! I'll get more when the occasion arises. Generally the ones I work on were planted to line the avenue approaching a 'stately home'...

Cupressus macrocarpa. I'm talking about the abundance of small 1" and less size twigs that block your way up to a good TIP, in order to get to those limbs that have broken because they have grown out so long to get to any sunlight. I do understand about leaving dead or even crossing branches...

Fair enough...on some macrocarpas, taking all the dead wood would be akin to liontailing. On some, they have been left for so long that the branches are way long and skinny trying to get out from under all the deadwood above and all they've got is a bit of green at the ends. So will...

I get to work on quite a lot of macrocarpas now...usually long branches have collapsed under their weight. Up in the canopy is usually a LOT of deadwood as the interiors are so shaded. What's your opinon on a good deadwood cleanout...I could take out a LOT and the interior would be much more...