Interesting Biomechanics

[tree-fancier123]

53 minutes ago, jacquemontii said:

|The 'upswept' branches of a lime

thanks

[David Humphries]

10 hours ago, Will Heal said:

The stump of a once leaning WRC

heavy lean or exposed to prevailing wind load?

 

[Will Heal]

It was growing on the outside edge of a group of trees and was leaning away

[kevinjohnsonmbe]

Not a recent event, but first time I'd seen this one at Lanhydrock House yesterday.

 

2 huge lower limb tear-outs well established into their new position.  Imagine if it just kept doing the same thing every 100 years or so...

 

 

[Steve Bullman]

Good find.  Can't imagine this is too common with pine

[kevinjohnsonmbe]

20 minutes ago, Steve Bullman said:

Good find.  Can't imagine this is too common with pine

Reminded me of this one from 2014 in Plymouth Steve.  Perhaps it could have done similar but it had to be cleared because the remaining part was in danger of going the other way towards the house!  I guess it's only really suitable to leave them if its an open grown park tree with plenty of space.  Shame in hindsight...

[David Humphries]

1 hour ago, kevinjohnsonmbe said:

Not a recent event, but first time I'd seen this one at Lanhydrock House yesterday.

 

2 huge lower limb tear-outs well established into their new position.  Imagine if it just kept doing the same thing every 100 years or so...

 

 

Excellent Entism

[Stephen Blair]

[David Humphries]

Big birch burr

 

[tony_t3d]

Good find.  Can't imagine this is too common with pine

We have quite a few pine where I work that are real knarly shapes due to a strong Coastal wind. I will photograph some and post maybe tomorrow.