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I originally did not intend to wire the trunk. However, the more branches and foliage that was stripped away, the more I saw that the trunk was kind of straight as it went towards the apex. I did not have an adequate size wire, I had some that was too big and too small, So I ran 2 wires up the trunk. Was hoping I wouldn't have too because I needed as much room as possible to wire all the branches in place.Here is the tree after much wiring and almost completed. I wired the apex with one of the wires I ran up the trunk. One wire , wired the right side of the apex. The apex is actually a continuation of the trunk bent to the right. The left side of the apex is wired with the other trunk wire. So actually, it came in handy having 2 wires running up the trunk. img 2858

I ran out of room and could put no more wire on the tree. So, to wire the last back branch. I sort of guy wired the 2 back branches together. The bottom back branch was already wired so it was firm enough to hold the top back branch.

Here is the completed work, for now. img 2859, 2867, img 2872 and img 2887