Walked through an old arboretum in Portland and noticed something about the trees
I was visiting the Hoyt Arboretum last Saturday, just wandering around on a day off. There's this section with these massive old oaks, probably planted like 80 years ago. What caught me was how some of them had these huge, heavy limbs that were barely hanging on, and you could see where they'd had cable supports put in decades back that were now totally buried in the bark. It made me think about how we sometimes put band-aids on trees instead of just making the hard call to prune or remove something. I saw one limb that must have weighed 2,000 pounds just resting on a rusted cable that looked 40 years old. Has anyone else seen old cabling jobs that are way past their useful life but still in place?