Funny pic/gif thread...
- Thread starter dfweyer
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How come these don't show?
That's just a show.
Around here the cypress sometimes grows with that twist. Cypress is highly rot resistant but a plain straight grained wood with few features. I saw the wood from one of those twisted cypress, fantastic figure throughout! Talking the kind of figure seen on multi thousand dollar gun stocks or high end furniture.
I located about a dozen of these trees. They are on public land or waters and as tempting as it is, I won't poach one. If one happens to fall in a storm I would probably be unable to avoid a little whittling for lathe turning wood. It would even make a fantastic pool cue if it was cored.
Any idea what causes the twist to begin with? I think maybe a storm and limbs and greenery that make the tree want to spin.
Hu
Ok. One possibility. That leaves just about everything else. lol...
Win, place or show., anything else is without benefit and nobody has any concept of everything.
Rusty in Montana
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Why some pine trees spin ? I haven't a clue but a friend of mine who builds log cabins won't use a twisted grained log , just like farmers & ranchers won't use wood fence posts that are split or cracked as they claim they'll rot faster than others .
The bark even shows it's got a twist to it rather often .
The bark even shows it's got a twist to it rather often .
it's basically the same as humans, both nature and nurture. genetics and environment. i used to do manual logging in a hilly district here in sweden, and twisty pines could be seen closest to the hill/mountain tops where they were most exposed to harsh conditions. of course there are bad seeds, too.
so same as humans. some are twisted because they are a bad seed, some because of bad environment
Who digs a pond in the shape of a kidney bean?
Use a dry erase marker and scribble over it then wipe it off. But in this case you probably want to wipe it off first.
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Jeebus
This appears to be an orthopedist's estate. The pond's not kidney shaped at all - it's a patella that goes with the femur just to the west of it. ;-)