The westward third branch I’ve been filling in from a far-side shoot since the mess up top was chopped and you got new shoots all over.
It should be solid enough to sustain a full season of growth to get even thicker, then at the end I’ll trim it back to the few westward bits that grow at this part of the season before the tree canopying it over gets its leaves and chop off all the eastward mess that thrives later
I now realize that one was dead at the time, it had started to bud then that ice storm cold snap must have killed it.
Alas, that’s four years down the drain. Might train a shoot coming higher off that right branch to curl around it 2 or 3 times then go off. At least learned this time to not trim it up every year, if it’s not in the way leave the leaf gore on for a bit to grow the main shaft thicker.
