I mentioned cabling, you can see the two cables and turnbuckles. This
tree was starting to split from an early snow that was real wet and the
leaves were still all on the tree. The weight from the snow caused the 
trunk to split. The tree man told me I could cable it up and save it. 
The split has healed together pretty good. This is a really nice maple
and gives us a lot of shade in the summer, and it produces a lot of
leaves for the compost that gives me black dirt for the garden.


Here's the wellpoint I put in last spring and the water was still
there this spring. Pumps good. The one hose you see coming out of it
will feed the 6 sprinklers for the Hmongs and 2 sprinklers in our
garden, one at a time. Which amounts to 3 hrs. on each sprinkler is
24 hours of watering, and I take care of the watering for them.


I'm going to cable the left side of the tree because there are 4 large
branches coming off the single limb and it looks like a lot of weight
for the one main limb. I'm also going to redo the two that are already
in there, a few inches away from where they are hooked now. And also
a couple more need it. My only other choice was to trim them and I 
don't want to cut on that old tree.


Here is my cabling set-up. I have some better hose here that will hold
up to the cable better than the hose I used before. I made this so it
will be easy to cut with a hack saw.