When Support and LPS Work,

[treeseer]

Please let ANSI know. Too much speculation goes around about how sketchy and expensive and needy of annual inspection these systems are. The key is to Document with data and/or pictures, to give the TCSRC something to work with.

"Tree Care Standards Review Committee Comments
TCIA members can submit their comments to the TCIA Tree Care Standards Review Committee at any time. Please note standards are revised on a five-year cycle, so it may be impossible for the committee to address your comments immediately, but they will be held until the next revision cycle begins.
View or Download the form to submit comments to TCSRC (PDF).

System Failure / Success Reporting Form
The Tree Care Standards Review Committee is also collecting data on Cable, Bracing and Guying systems as well as Lightning Protection Systems. They are looking for documented cases of both failure and success.

For example, if a cabling system you either installed or have access to survived a wind storm, with documented wind speeds, report it to us! Also, report to us if a cabling system you either installed or have access to fails, for whatever reason. All submissions are strictly anonymous. Data will be used solely for the purpose of helping guide future standards. Email Bob Rouse at [email protected] to obtain a reporting form for system failure/success (PDF).

 

[jomoco]

Outlawing J-lag use in softwood trees would eliminate 50 percent of the cable failures I've personally seen here in SoCal.

It aint rocket science so much as a lack of common sense when writing ANSI standards clearly and concisely.

jomoco

 

[John Paul Sanborn]

I read somewhere that most of the holding strength in a cable system is when the new wood engulfs the hardwear, which means that the nut and washer on a through bolt might have significantly more strength then a lag.