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Thanks for canvassing opinions Jay.

Cool Paul. I put my bolts in today and did it according to the BMP book thingy. It went smooth except for when I dropped the nut from the tree in the snow below. I would have taken picts of the tree and my work but my camera is either dead or doesn't like the cold weather. Time for a new...

Thanks for that post. How would you tag it to show where the bolt was ten or twenty years from now? If the bolt was left long and never backed off like my much maligned plan, would the tree face more damage and decay from a protruding bolt? Just curious.

So every tree practice we do now is 100% correct and in ten years we won't be telling anyone that we used to believe X but now we believe Y? If no tries anything different how do we learn?

I do it with my daughter's swing in our tree and it works. I may still be full of it but I think I may need to test it out myself to make certain I am indeed full of it.

Perhaps I didn't go at this thread the right way. When I have taken out trees with included bolts, the area around the bolts has been rotten and the bolt was no longer functioning. My thought it that if you keep backing it off every year or two, it would give greater support by holding onto...

I cabled a tree last week and now that my long drill bits have arrived I need to go back and bolt it. What I wonder is about the ends of the bolts and how far to let them protrude. I asked Willie and he said that not only does he cut them short but he scribes around the washer and then uses a...