Re: Weird Tree Photo
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07/28/21 12:01 PM
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Indians and pioneers would use trees like that as trail markers. They created them. I believe that they cut them a certain way to make them bend, pointing in the direction that they chose.
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Re: Weird Tree Photo
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Indians and pioneers would use trees like that as trail markers. They created them. I believe that they cut them a certain way to make them bend, pointing in the direction that they chose. Both of you could be right. This is Indian country with the reservation not far from there.
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Re: Weird Tree Photo
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That is exactly what that is. We call them 4 trees. That is really interesting. So many people in the area have wondered what ever happened to the tree. I will pass this info on to them. Thanks so much!
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Re: Weird Tree Photo
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07/28/21 12:15 PM
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I can't tell by the photo, but what is the scale we are looking at? Looks to me like it would have been a mighty tall Indian to break that tree?? I'm guessing "snow-break".
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Re: Weird Tree Photo
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I can't tell by the photo, but what is the scale we are looking at? Looks to me like it would have been a mighty tall Indian to break that tree?? I'm guessing "snow-break". I would guess to where the bend begins is about 10 feet. If that was done in the late 1800s, it would have had more than 100 years to grow.
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Re: Weird Tree Photo
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I can't tell by the photo, but what is the scale we are looking at? Looks to me like it would have been a mighty tall Indian to break that tree?? I'm guessing "snow-break". I would guess to where the bend begins is about 10 feet. If that was done in the late 1800s, it would have had more than 100 years to grow. It is a common misconception that as a tree grows upwards, that a particular spot on a tree will move upwards. That is not at all true, any event that happens (injury, blaze, etc.) will always remain at the same height. There is an old story about a tall evergreen tree that some loggers cut down in Oregon. After it hit the ground they found a small and very old bell in the very upper branch of the tree. They surmised that some pioneers had tied the bell to the tree way back when it was of Christmas tree height: wrong, it doesn't work that way.
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Re: Weird Tree Photo
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07/28/21 02:48 PM
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Another tree fell over, hit that one causing it to bend. After the fallen over tree rotted, along with the surviving tree rotting at the bend on out, continued to reach for the sky. Seen that quite often when I worked in the woods. nailed it lumberjack X2 I'm sure that Ryan Mcleod or White can show some trees on the McKenzie River or Alaska that have weird shapes with all the different slumping of the perma-frost melt and they grow in convoluted ways. I know some of the tree ring counters have quite a hard time working out weather patterns with these rings. If it was an ash tree then quite posiable was bent for making the curvature for snow shoes and they did not come back to harvest
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Re: Weird Tree Photo
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A bend 10 feet up in a tree would be very easy to do when it was a sapling by shimmying up it till it bent over. Guess we'll never know unless one of us learns to speak "tree"
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Re: Weird Tree Photo
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Ever seen a nurse stump tree ? This happens when a tree starts its life on a rotting stump or broken off part of a tree. Over time it's roots seek the ground. Then the stump rots away. I've seen a couple in the woods here. Kinda weird. Nature finds a way.
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Re: Weird Tree Photo
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Ever seen a nurse stump tree ? This happens when a tree starts its life on a rotting stump or broken off part of a tree. Over time it's roots seek the ground. Then the stump rots away. I've seen a couple in the woods here. Kinda weird. Nature finds a way. When I worked surveying in swamps was quite common to see the nurse trees, usually in rows where a big tree fell and 10 trees in a row had that feature. Always took a wide berth of them in the coastal BC area since bears held up in them out of the rain,
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Re: Weird Tree Photo
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Ever seen a nurse stump tree ? This happens when a tree starts its life on a rotting stump or broken off part of a tree. Over time it's roots seek the ground. Then the stump rots away. I've seen a couple in the woods here. Kinda weird. Nature finds a way. That is weird. But, as you say, nature finds a way to survive.
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Re: Weird Tree Photo
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This is a tree I took a photo of along the lake because it was pretty strange. It's a live tree, a basswood I think. I seen a documentary years ago that touched on these types of trees in the south. Rumor/lore/legend was that as the south fell as the civil war was coming to an end , some loyal confederate troops had taken treasure ( possibly stolen from the north ) and buried it in the woods so that union troops could not find it. Then to mark the location they had bent saplings in a particular pattern/grid spaced very far apart , even miles apart with the crook of the bend pointed towards the location of the buried treasure. This was done so way into the future there would be a source of wealth to fund the confederate army to be able to battle the unionists again. "The South shall rise again" No idea if there is any truth to this , but makes for an interesting story for sure.
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Re: Weird Tree Photo
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I like rumors and legends, but i seriously doubt that crooked tree is more than 40 years old. Yep^^^ And that was caused by damage to the tree and it continued to grow.... ...some folks do have a great imagination...lol
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