Amazing trees in Poland

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400 pine trees all facing north

 

 

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[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

seen them before, they are awesome

[David Humphries]

That's a great image.

 

I think there was some talk about these having been weighted to produce that particular shape.

 

Can't recall the end product though.

 

 

 

 

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[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

That's a great image.

 

I think there was some talk about these having been weighted to produce that particular shape.

 

Can't recall the end product though.

 

 

 

 

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maybe boat bottoms:hmmmm2:

[s.varty]

Pretty sure someone said they had been shaped for beams in ship building, it may of been tony croft

[Daniël Bos]

Landslide, flood, avalanche type event.

[Bearded Munch]

Found a newspaper clip about them does make some sense. The Crooked Forest, Poland.

 

Thought to have been planted in around 1930, the Crooked Forest is made up of approximately 400 pine trees, all bent ninety degrees at their base and all facing north.

 

It is thought that the trees were let to grow for seven to ten years before being held down to create their bizarre shapes. However, nobody is entirely sure why the trees were grown this way. Some think they were grown to make furniture or build ships and were abandoned when the Second World War broke out.

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Weighing trees to make shapes for boats amazing I've never heard of that but makes sense

 

 

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[Daniël Bos]

Even the Poles wouldn't use pine to lay a keel. Trees have been grown for keels beams and other curved timbers on ships for probably many centuries.

The normal method would be to crowd trees to get them growing straight, then when they'd reached a certain height/girth clear enough space around your selected specimens to encourage growth out, not up.

The amount of curve could then be managed mainly by pruning the surrounding trees.

[KnotSure]

Funky looking trees Why do they all go North though??Why not east?, bit longitudinalist isn't it.