Support Systems Crossword

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Across
  1. 1. bonds a connector to a steel cable
  2. 3. oblong steel fitting
  3. 5. rigid support
  4. 7. installation of a cable system between leaders, limbs, and branches
  5. 10. closed-eyed or hook anchor, lag-threaded, drop-forged
  6. 13. a cable to tree attachment or ground
  7. 14. device that temporarily grasps and holds wire rope or strand cable
  8. 15. tightened to point of eliminating visible slack
  9. 17. fine thread designed for fittings
  10. 18. tree used as a guying anchor
  11. 21. hardware threaded directly into limb, leader, or trunk but not through opposite side
Down
  1. 2. bending, rounding, or flattening the fastening ends
  2. 3. device or configuration securing end of cable to ancho
  3. 4. installation of a brace system
  4. 6. drop-forged, closed-eye device for adjusting tension
  5. 8. steel or synthetic fiber cable system between tree and external ancho
  6. 9. closed-eye termination
  7. 11. drop-forged eye nut
  8. 12. rods installed in or through limbs, leaders, or trunks
  9. 16. electrical connections between a conductive object and lightening protection system
  10. 19. metal or synthetic single or multi strand wire, rope, or webbing
  11. 20. closed bolt, drop-forged