White pine top broken, why & how?????

[AWSubie]

I hope you don’t have pine beetles (weevils).

 

[ruffdog]

Thanks...interesting link.

Yeah....I grew up on a tree farm and now live on a ex-tree farm and Canker is the only issue we have with mature white pine.
If I remember right, the Gooseberry is part of the life cycle for bugs that can transfer the fungus tree to tree.

 

[Egon]

Throw a fish line attached to a cable or heavier rope.

 

[oosik]

I've had lightning strikes kill the top 5' to 10' of a very few of my Ponderosa pines. But never knocked the top off. I had ONE strike start a fire at the very top of one. I watched it for two days. It finally went out - I didn't have to fall the tree.

 

[ericm979]

Throw a fish line attached to a cable or heavier rope.

They make throw weights and super light line for that. They're in arborist catalogs. Throwing up into a tree is harder than it seems like it'd be, especially if there is a lot of foliage. A friend who works as an arborist has the weights and line and also a big slingshot, which makes it a lot easier.

Stuff breaks out of trees, especially pine/fir trees, a lot. Both in winter storms and in the summer when the trees are stressed and heavy with new foliage and cones.

 

[PILOON]

Pine is so brittle that most arborists are vert leery of climbing on the limbs.
They snap off real easy.

 

[MossRoad]

I've got an old archery fishing spool like this that I tape to an old Bear bow and shoot a line over things that I want a line over. It uses a heavy fiberglass arrow with a hole in the end. I remove the barbed tip. No need to kill it.

Then I use the line to pull a rope up the opposite direction, and then use the rope to pull a cable up if I'm so inclined. Works great. It's how I do the Christmas lights on our 50' spruce tree the past few years.

 

[Egon]

I've got an old archery fishing spool like this that I tape to an old Bear bow and shoot a line over things that I want a line over. It uses a heavy fiberglass arrow with a hole in the end. I remove the barbed tip. No need to kill it.

Then I use the line to pull a rope up the opposite direction, and then use the rope to pull a cable up if I'm so inclined. Works great. It's how I do the Christmas lights on our 50' spruce tree the past few years.

Perfect.

Finally recalled the proper name: Messenger Line

 

[BravoXray]

I have a white pine on the south side of my property that lost 12' - 15' that was snapped off the top in a windy storm. It lost another limb lower down too.

 

[Cougsfan]

If you have fertilized the pine trees they will grow too fast and become quite weak.