Bear Creek Tree Service installs cables and braces that support weak, split, or heavy-limbed trees across Western North Carolina, often saving a tree that would otherwise have to come down.
Cabling and bracing is a way to keep a tree, not take it down. When a trunk or a major limb is splitting, there are usually two choices. Remove the tree before it fails, or support it so it does not. A cable is a flexible steel line installed high in the canopy that ties weak parts of the tree together, so they move with the wind instead of pulling apart.
The work calls for judgment about whether a tree is worth saving and sound enough to support. A certified arborist makes that call honestly. When a tree is too far gone, we will say so rather than sell hardware that only delays the inevitable.
Done right, a support system can add years to a tree that has real value to a property, the kind of mature tree you cannot replace in a lifetime.
Mark is a certified arborist who will inspect the structural weakness and judges honestly whether the tree can be saved and is worth supporting.
You receive a free written estimate explaining the support system and what it will and will not do.
We install the cable or brace high in the canopy so the weak parts move together instead of pulling apart.
Wind and ice loading in the mountains is hard on weak forks and heavy limbs, so winter is when an unsupported split is most likely to fail. A system installed before the season does the most good.
Mature shade trees and specimen hardwoods are common on established properties here and are exactly the trees worth supporting.
Request a free estimate and a certified arborist will take a look.
No. It is the opposite. Cabling is installed to save a tree that is splitting or weak, so it can stay standing instead of coming down.
A flexible steel cable is installed high in the canopy to tie weak sections together. When the wind blows, the limbs move together instead of pulling apart, which reduces the chance of failure.
No honest arborist can guarantee that. A support system reduces risk on a tree worth keeping. If a tree is too far gone, we will tell you that removal is the safer answer.
Usually mature, valued trees with a structural weakness worth protecting, the kind you could not replace for decades.
