2o6 PRACTICAL TREE REPAIR 



the size of the wire. Run the wire through, turn 

 the end and run it back. Adjust a headless ten- 

 penny nail in the loop so that it will catch the wire 

 as the loop starts to pass through the hole. The 

 nail must lie lengthwise of the limb and it is just 

 as well to cut a slot in the bark to receive it. This 



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Cross sections through small limbs, showing four methods 

 of fixing wire 



device is usually used with a double wire, but it 

 can be done with a single wire just as well. Only 

 two or three inches at the end of the wire is turned 

 and pulled or driven back into the hole. If it is 

 a tight fit and the wire is stiff the anchor will be 

 as strong as if the wire were doubled throughout 

 its length. Another scheme is to bore two smaller 

 holes and run the wire in one and out the other. 

 One hole must be just above the other — say three 



