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PRACTICAL TREE REPAIR 



end of the rope through the eye six or eight inches. 

 Bend over this end, using the hammer to pound 

 it down. Then fray out the wire strands in this 

 bent end. Pull up one strand and bunch the 

 others down on to the rope. With a pair of pliers 

 wind the detached strand around the bunch and the 



Method of splicing wire rope to eye Two methods of brac- 

 bolt ing three limbs 



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rope. When you come to the end of this strand, 

 take up another and wind it around, and so on to 

 the last. Now take the bolt, with the cable fixed 

 to it, up into the tree. Drive it home and adjust 

 the nut and washer. 



It is now time to go to the other end of the 

 brace. Set the bolt in its final position. Cut off 

 the rope with a foot or so to spare. With a block 

 and tackle or a light turnbuckle and " come-along," 

 tighten the rope, pulling it towards the eye of the 



