The Answer

1. cobra winds around the parts of the trees to be braced without injuring them.

2. cobra installed as a dynamic breaking-bracing allows natural crown movements.

3. The cobra shock absorber softens catching shocks and softly cushions strong movements. The so-called "karate effect" as it occurs with a steel rope is excluded.

4. Independent from the rope length, the soft cobra shock absorber offers an additional play of 20 cm already under very slight loads. That way, a cobra crown bracing does not restrict crown movements in gentle summer breezes, but fully acts under heavy loads and avoids strong catching shocks and breakage.

5. The dynamic cobra crown bracing gives trees room for movement, which allows them to feel weak points and compensate for them.

6. cobra installed as a static load-bracing avoids the falling down of branches in danger of breakage.

7. The specific design of cobra allows the crown-bracing system to grow with the increase in diameter of the tree.

8. cobra can be easily inspected from the ground and the year of installation can be quickly determined by means of the coloured end caps.

9. The black cobra hollow rope is braided of polypropylene monofilaments and is the rope fibre that is best suited for a long-term use in trees. The degradation of strength is clearly less than 2 % per year and allows a service life of 12 years of the cobra crown bracing system.

10. Except for the shock absorber, cobra crown bracing systems are uniformly made of polypropylene and can be simply disposed of in the "yellow bag" for recycling.

11. cobra crown bracing can be easily installed on the tree without any tools.

12. A complete cobra standard connection with shock absorber is available from € 29.50.

You can obtain further answers to your questions and expert counselling under pbs@cobranet.de