If you are worried about certain valuable healthy trees that may be susceptible to storms and high winds, cabling may be an appropriate treatment. Cabling is the utilization of cable supports to help brace weaker limbs and stabilize the trunk.

Trees with codominant stems have two or more main stems, roughly the same diameter, emerging from the same location on the main trunk. These trees can be healthy yet prone to splitting.

Tree cabling serves 3 purposes. It prevents and reduces limb failure on a healthy tree that may suffer from a weak union (crotch). It helps preserve an existing desirable tree that has aesthetic value to the property. And, it provides protection from a sudden limb break of a tree that’s over a structure or in a hazardous area to people, like a park, family yard or playground.