Interesting Biomechanics

[David Humphries]

That's rather nuts sean.

 

Richmond?

 

 

Here's a great inosculated Hornbeam from Nawthaw Great wood at the weekend.

 

 

 

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[sean]

looks like limbo bar for the wood folk......how does that happen?

 

The Oak was on wimbledon common.......a really great old wood if you ever get the chance to go........

[sean]

looks like limbo bar for the wood folk......how does that happen?

 

The Oak was on wimbledon common.......a really great old wood if you ever get the chance to go........

 

well i know how it happens.....but how does it happen?

[David Humphries]

Cunning use of woodglue methinks

 

 

 

 

 

This isn't true inosculation in the sense of a fusion of trunks, more like a side branch making contact and becoming squished & fused by its neighbour.

 

 

What dya reckon?

 

 

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[sean]

Cunning use of woodglue methinks

 

 

 

 

 

This isn't true inosculation in the sense of a fusion of trunks, more like a side branch making contact and becoming squished & fused by its neighbour.

 

 

What dya reckon?

 

 

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i reckon you bee roight.......or it could be a wee pixie bridge:001_rolleyes:

[David Humphries]

What a ridiculous statement.

 

It's quite obviously a "wood elves" bridge.

 

Pixies indeed, wash ya mouth out Harding

 

 

 

 

 

 

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[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

Sean, what is interesting is the diameter of the stem going to the termination, I get the tip taper, as this was a lead, died and is now being occluded by an branch shedding collar (abcission) but this photo is a lie, as it does not show the true nature of the forces involved.

 

What i mean to say is, that the big terminal leader that is going off at an acute angle is putting a torsional force (rather than commpression/tension) and I would love to know, is that force being accounted for by this limb being flat and wide in profile?

[Matthew Arnold]

No mate, English Springer Spaniel highly trained gundog, it may lick them to death.

 

I may seem mad but i got three of em. One of em is 11 and the other two are 4 years old. They are called Charlie (11) Bracken and Bramble. All of them are worked and have aproximately 40 days this season. Here is a pic of em in the woods.

[David Humphries]

The trimming on this beech hedge is somewhat lapsed & out of cycle, I'd suggest.

 

Some very interesting grafts & inosculations.

 

 

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[Canal Navvy]

Might those trees have started out as a pleached hedge do think?