Simply the ugliest Douglas-fir ever!!

[rbtree]

Wonder if any of youse have ever seen a fir this grotesque? Gerry? Reminds me a bit of some of the gnarly Monterey cypress that I saw on my Cali trip....or of some cedrus atlantica.

These images are from my fancy schmancy Samsung cell phone...not bad, the ones that are focused.

We set aside all the branch wood over 3-4"...prolly a good 3/4 cord! That would have chipped up into at least 6 yards of chips to add to the 40 yards or so that we produced!!! That total did include two more normal firs, prolly two yards and four yards each of chips.

Freaking amazingly gnarly tree...the limbs, as you can see, were spaced almost on top of each other at the bottom, and finally becoming spaced by a foot or so..but, until the top 25 feet or so, they all went up at 30-60 degree angles.....

 

[CurSedVoyce]

I have a gray pine that is growing like that on the other side of the property Roger. That is crazy for a doug fir man.. Wow!

 

[rbtree]

Yep, twarn't it? It took dang near all day..being as I swung into the other two firs, the smaller one prolly took 5 minutes to brush out and bring down to 45 feet, the other maybe 15-20 minutes. Oh, and there was a li'l pecker pole, that I tip tied and held the line while aloft in the small fir while Derrek slash cut it.

 

[CurSedVoyce]

I am debating if I want to flop this one or piece some of it down. Not much straight grain wood on the trunk and it is right over the street and within reach of some primaries. Might shave one side just to tip the balance in my favor.
Lotta chips mang!

 

[MasterBlaster]

I wish we had trees like that around here... I think!

 

[woodworkingboy]

It's so ugly it's beautiful!

 

[Al Smith]

Hmm that kind of ruins the picture of those big majestic fir trees 4 feet in diameter and 200 feet tall .

 

[thattreeguy]

al its one of those redheaded step child fir trees, looks like a cypress trunk ...............if you miss those firs, theyre here, just got to go out into the hills a bit east of here

 

[stig]

Looks like the world's largest Bonsai.

 

[Al Smith]

Well for that matter we have some pug ugly oak trees too .

 

[canadiantreeman]

Crazy!

 

[Burnham]

Bad genetics going on there.

 

[stig]

Spoken like a true timberman!

Grow straight and knot-free, or not at all

 

[Burnham]

Fair point, my friend...that comment truly does display a prejudice, doesn't it .

 

[stig]

And one which we share.
That is how I recognized it

 

[Bermy]

How's about these I saw yesterday...macrocarpas out on the east coast of Tassie, not the tallest but by far the 'tangledest'!

 

[Burnham]

Wow!

 

[Bermy]

I think only that they are tangled is keeping a couple of them up!
...herb garden on the other side...

 

[MasterBlaster]

Lordy! Nice firewood stack...

 

[Jed]

Roger: I've worked in the East Sound area for about four years now, and I've never even SEEN a fir like that. When I saw it at first glance I thought, "Oh it must have been topped like so many of our Issaquah residential Firs, but no!

What a monster.

 

[CurSedVoyce]

Wow Fiona! Is it all leaning (swept) from the prevailing wind??

 

[Al Smith]

I'm not so sure if the wind will bend them or not .Although I've bever seen whatever type tree that is on these hardwoods the wind won't actually tilt them over .

What it does do in the edge of a woods where said tree is not sheltered the thing sways to and fro for decades and forms some very interesting grain structures in the bottom 10 feet or so of the trunk .This is where those highly prized figured woods comes from they use for high priced furniture and gun stocks etc .

It also causes the tree to put down a root system which is next to impossible in some cases to pop the tree out with a straight blade dozer without breaking the thing in two .