Anchoring Guy Wires - Share Your Techniques, Tips, Tricks

[River's Edge]

When you use guy wire, are you just using 1mm bonsai wire for the wire? I have at least one tree that I think would benefit from guy wire to lower some branches but I've actually never done it before. Tried it with thicker wire last night and it was definitely not what I wanted.

For guy wires strength and thinner diameter are a better combination. Therefore I suggest you use copper or stainless steel for guy wires. Much stronger and less obtrusive. A smaller gauge copper such as #16-#20 will handle most guy wire situations!

 

[badatusernames]

For guy wires strength and thinner diameter are a better combination. Therefore I suggest you use copper or stainless steel for guy wires. Much stronger and less obtrusive. A smaller gauge copper such as #16-#20 will handle most guy wire situations!

awesome, thanks, I'll grab some. I started trying to mess around with the 1mm wire last night in kind of a lazy way and it was not going well, haha

 

[leatherback]

are you just using 1mm bonsai wire for the wire?

smaller in most cases. .5mm copper does fine in most cases.