A New Turnbuckle...

Overlooked to up this point in our blog was the fact that we had to order a replacement turnbuckle a couple of weeks ago. Not because of any failure on the turnbuckles part, but rather as an adjustment to our "suspension system."

It became apparent the first day we got our main beams up in the tree that we had this issue. Due to the fact that both of our trees are not perfectly verticle, our four turnbuckles were sized and ordered with room for adjustment. Hanging from overhead as they are, the angle of lean in our trees wound up leaving us short in one corner.
Even with that corner's turnbuckle all the way closed we found we couldn't tighten the wire rope enough to provide the same amount of tension and support in that corner. With our wire ropes pre-sized and looped as they are that left us only one solution to tighten things up- a shorter turnbuckle!







Here she is!