Why?

[Justme]

Ok then why did they do this to a complete forest?

 

LINKY

 

 

 

[easy-lift guy]

So that the other tree's would be envious.

easy-lift guy

[PeteB]

Ship building. Think of the shape of the prow stem and stern. Hundreds of years ago, curved timbers like these where highly valued for their shape.

[Old Mill Tree Care]

Ship building. Think of the shape of the prow stem and stern. Hundreds of years ago, curved timbers like these where highly valued for their shape.

 

No, it's so that when cars hit them at high speed the energy from the impact is dissipated as the car shoots around the curve, also creating a smile for the passengers.

[likeitorlumpit]

like hot rod trees

[Ty Korrigan]

Perhaps...

Pinus contorta var contorta...?

[Tom2020]

How??

[tomtrees]

I think its some kind of bug thing, it bores out the terminal bud and the lateral bud (branch) takes on dominance giving it the swans neck. But I prefer all the other explanations.

[VEG]

Hockey sticks lol

[Daniël Bos]

I think its some kind of bug thing, it bores out the terminal bud and the lateral bud (branch) takes on dominance giving it the swans neck. But I prefer all the other explanations.

 

Well, by the looks of that pic, they were all "done" at the same time, having been planted at the same time as well. More importantly though, they're all curving in the same direction. That leads to not many options in my head, bugs not being one of them. Human intervention, Avelange/Flash flood, hurricane or alien intervention.

 

My monet is on human! Still not sure why though, shipbuilders do like a nice bit of curved timber, and I have seen a few examples of trees trained to curve in the desired way (some Turkish shipwrights hold trees "in traction" with ropes etc. to form timbers with multiple curves) but never softwood....