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You don't paint it with anything, Al. And no, I'm not going to explain for the eight hundred and fourty seventh time why. you have a computer, search on CODIT and whatever else for your answer.

And your first instinct, like most of our customers, is to cover it up with roofing tar. This is exactly why arboriculture cannot and will not ever advance. Everything learned hardly ever gets passed forward. Darin is reverting back to the same failed methods of 50 years ago to loosen the bolts...

You're doing it wrong, Steve. Copper will kill the trees, you need buckets of roofing tar to protect them. ;)

Peening is hitting the end of the threaded rod with a ball peen hammer (or any hammer) to deform the end so the nut can't come off.

Brett, people make up all sorts of stupid things to believe. I remember somebody posting once that the bar oil residue on their saws would cause corrosion if it wasn't cleaned off before storage. Imagine that, oil causing corrosion! :|:

IMO others have already learned, but you're simply repeating old mistakes.

I do not understand how you think that loosening the nuts will make the rod hold better? It doesn't work like that. And you shave the bark out from under the washers because otherwise the squished bark decays and ends up leaving the nuts loose (which is bad).

Brett, what is a BMP? :|:

At Davey we did a lot of cabling and bracing. I was trained to scribe around the washers and remove the bark so that the washers were flush against the solid wood. And either cut the rod off flush so it callouses over or else leave it a little long so that it will be visible when the tree gets...