BrianBay9

The challenge here is what appears to be a reverse taper from the soil line to the junction of those two massive branches. To deal with that it seems you'd almost have to trunch chop below there, and use one of those smaller branches as the new leader.

Second alternative - airlayer at the reverse taper and create a clump-style forest out of several of the large branches.

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