Los Angeles, 2014. A guy called for a basic prune on a weeping bottlebrush *Callistemon viminalis* (aka *Melaleuca viminalis*). I noted the actively splitting codominant stem.
The quote took a little longer to get approved than I would have liked. As luck would have it, the tree split in the wee morning hours on the exact day we were coming to prune and cable it.
The pictures aren’t the greatest, but they’re good enough to see what needs to be seen.
A 3 man crew has the tree back up, bolted, cabled and pruned by 11am.
Happy to address questions in the comments. Mostly just posting because comments in other threads more people need to see what’s possible.
This isn’t the biggest tree we’ve done, but the photos aren’t more dramatic.
by NickTheArborist
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pretty cool. makes me happy they cared enough to do all that to save the tree