Old Monkey
Treehouser
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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 chisel to scrape the bark away so the washer is already somewhat recessed when he is done. He feels that will speed the trees callousing around the bolts. My own personal idea, based on no science is to leave the bolts longer and to back them off every year or two to make sure they don't get included in the tree, where, I don't think they do as much good. Am I nuts? Should I cut them short and let the tree callous over them?