Adding Strength To Trees

February 28, 2012

Shane who is a Level 11 member of the online Model Train Club sent in this idea to share with others.

“I find Seamoss trees great to use but I like to make them stronger, so I insert a length of thin piano wire up the hollow trunk.

If you are careful you can gently push the wire a long way up the trunk to make each tree much much stronger and stable. I leave about an inch of wire protruding out the base of the trunk as this is helpful when mounting the tree to the layout.

Just be careful when using piano wire (or locating trees with piano wire in them) as the wire is very sharp and could do some serious injury if someone accidentally poked themselves in the eye when viewing the trees up close.”