Vertical Lines in freshly cut log.

[rarefish383]

Looking at the first picture again I think I might be wrong? At the bottom of the cut you can see 3-4 strokes that are more in line of what I was thinking? Again, very interesting.

[Peasgood]

My reaction to your previous post was that it has bugger all to do with a bowsaw, I have  cut thousands of logs with a bowsaw and never seen the like. I do get what you mean by your post above though.

My thought were it was related to wind rock, snapping when I first saw the op. Having now looked again it appears many of the other trees have been blown over a bit and grown up again. This reinforces my theory but it is still only a theory.

As said, absolutely fascinating.

[rarefish383]

Hope you don't mind, I borrowed the pic and posted it on "Arboristsite" in the US, see if any of our guys have an idea?

[Macpherson]

1 hour ago, Peasgood said:

My reaction to your previous post was that it has bugger all to do with a bowsaw, I have  cut thousands of logs with a bowsaw and never seen the like. I do get what you mean by your post above though.

My thought were it was related to wind rock, snapping when I first saw the op. Having now looked again it appears many of the other trees have been blown over a bit and grown up again. This reinforces my theory but it is still only a theory.

As said, absolutely fascinating.

 

I'd like the OP to go back and cut down an adjacent tree to see if it had the same weird lines, what species do you think it is ?

[Peasgood]

2 minutes ago, Macpherson said:

what species do you think it is ?

Got to be crack willow hasn't it?

[Macpherson]

1 minute ago, Peasgood said:

Got to be crack willow hasn't it?

I guessed Willow earlier but I'm crap at Identifying trees from their bark, but regardless of species it's very strange one, cheers.

[Peasgood]

1 minute ago, Macpherson said:

I guessed Willow earlier but I'm crap at Identifying trees from their bark, but regardless of species it's very strange one, cheers.

There is such a thing as crack willow but it really refers to branches both big and small breaking off and rooting. My guess is willow too but it is no more than a guess and wouldn't be too surprised if told different.

[Macpherson]

51 minutes ago, Peasgood said:

There is such a thing as crack willow but it really refers to branches both big and small breaking off and rooting. My guess is willow too but it is no more than a guess and wouldn't be too surprised if told different.

 

Yep, up here we have much rain and I can remember 25 years ago my misses planted a whole wad of Goat Willow and Alder whips wot likes wet, just simply a 3 to 4 foot sprouting stem stuck into the ground with nothing else, takes root 100% of the time and grows almost as fast as fake news... and I've spent countless hours trying to get rid of them and there endless root systems.. 

 

The one thing I've learnt in life whilst trying to clear a small piece of ground for growing veggies is that nature will take it back in far less time than it took to tame it, and no sign of you're endless toiling will be visible in no time at all... which in a sense is one of the few positives in this world today👍

 

I don't mind either as an individual tree, but as a tangled thicket it's war😡

[Khriss]

Have seen similar rippling in willow, but never that regular or pronounced 😯 K

[Khriss]

( one for Mulder and Sculley)