it my first hackberry and i'm likeing it, Paul it cooked the belly good, then with all the heat I used trying to line up the tips it aint getting any more
ryoon I wedged a pc of walnut in far as I could and filled it with epoxy, then put the dowels in for piece of mind
as far as the cool trick I saw it somewere to get the deflex out of one limb, think it may have been Pappy doing it, i'm just a copy cat