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Re: Two Legged Tree
« Reply #40 on: January 04, 2007, 09:35:47 pm »
Quote from: Furby on January 04, 2007, 09:30:30 pm
If done properly, the entire top of one could have been remove right from the start.


Yes, no dought about it.
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Re: Two Legged Tree
« Reply #41 on: January 04, 2007, 09:42:40 pm »
     When my dad was growing up he would go out behind my grandmas house and tie two trees togeather.
     Well grandma and grandpa had there place logged off before they sold there house and the logger was talking to them one day and said that there was some of the weirdest shaped trees he has seen :D :D :D.
     Dad said that he would haved liked to seen the trees just to see what they looked like after 40yrs.
     

     Thanks Alot Mr Mom
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Re: Two Legged Tree
« Reply #42 on: January 04, 2007, 10:16:30 pm »
If the seedling grew on a log and two roots became the two supporting bases, there would not be an obvious seam where the two trunks come together.  There seems to be a seam (ha!) where they join, so maybe the graft theory is right.

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Are you sure your that some of your tree tieing/bending scouts did not make a road trip up north?
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Re: Two Legged Tree
« Reply #43 on: January 04, 2007, 10:32:15 pm »
Actually there is a branch (dead) just above the crotch. It looks more overgrown rather than a normal branch that just died. Here is a close up of the "male" side of the crotch from the original photo.



After looking at that enlarged area, I suspect that someone created this work of art.  :D

If that is true, the question still remains of how did they create that seamless trunk that runs all the way up.

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Re: Two Legged Tree
« Reply #44 on: January 05, 2007, 12:00:50 am »
So Gary_C, along wit da camera, dis crew should bring da chainsaw and disecting tools too?  Oops! Maybe a handsaw that makes no noise, and some anasthetic to keep da two-legged tree from screemin while the operation takes place.....An increment borer to count the rings above the crotch and in each leg.....

These guys are going to wanna know a whole lot after Wed, ya know.  :)
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Re: Two Legged Tree
« Reply #45 on: January 05, 2007, 12:08:53 am »
It's not seamless, you can see the seam at the bottom (or is it now the top) of the Y.
The rest has simply grown over as the two trees became one.
All it really is now is a second trunk spliced into another trunk.
It is really possible that dead "branch" was the other top.

How is it possible to find nails, horseshoes, and many other things in the middle of trees with no entry point on the outside?
The tree grew around them. ;)
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Re: Two Legged Tree
« Reply #46 on: January 05, 2007, 12:59:30 am »
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Steve and I can watch for the forester while you do the surgery. I am no longer supposed to cut anything down, but sometimes things get run over with the forwarder while picking up, or I could just maybe wrestle it out of the ground, roots and all with the harvester.  :D
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Re: Two Legged Tree
« Reply #47 on: January 05, 2007, 05:52:17 am »
Tree # 3?  That one died, but the other 2 didn't.

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Re: Two Legged Tree
« Reply #48 on: January 05, 2007, 07:28:15 am »
The dead branch solves the mystery for me as I asked earlier about it when suggesting cambial grafting between two trees.
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Re: Two Legged Tree
« Reply #49 on: January 05, 2007, 08:36:11 am »
The increment borer idea is a good one.  You might need to take some DNA sample, but it might be hard to swab a tree! ;D 
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Re: Two Legged Tree
« Reply #50 on: January 05, 2007, 10:00:35 am »
That dead branch is foreign to that tree, it looks very much like it was just stuck there and the tree grew around it.

It's just an artistic prop.   ;D
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