Do you have trees with multiple trunks or branches with narrow branch angles? These are structural deformities that should have been resolved much earlier in the tree’s life, but a cable can help avoided branch failure.
But what if you don’t have large trees on your property? Just because they aren’t tall now, doesn’t mean they won’t be in the future. As a rule of thumb, some of the most important pruning that will ever happen on a tree is done within the first 15 years of its life.
There are certain things that can never be avoided, like deadwood accumulation or the ultimate height of a tree, but we can dictate the branch structure early on, through structural pruning, to create and foster a strong, damage resistant tree later in life.