There was a big storm around 2009 in the south west of France (where there are a lot of pine tree plantations); an entire generation of trees ended up looking like this.
Basically, strong continuous winds flatten very young trees without killing them. They then keep growing, with a permanent kink in trunk, near the base such as these. Not great for sawing into planks, but they work just fine to make paper and agglomerate.
It’s incredible how resilient trees are!
why cant we use something else like extruded polystyrene for lumber? or bearboard plastic lumber?
My parents had a deck made out of some kind of plastic that looked and felt like wood at their old house. It looked good and didn’t seem to have any issues after like 15 years. Haven’t seen that stuff anywhere else. Maybe it’s too expensive.
I forget what its called. Its nice though
For anyone wondering what this is, I’m pretty sure it’s the Crooked Forest in Poland.
A few months ago I was following an Instagram page about sustainability and they posted this pic and claimed the trees grew like that because of a “sideways gravitational pull” 🙄. This was on what’s supposed to be a page about science. And of course there were tons of people who believed it.
And for the other part I guess Home depot is an american thing.
Its just a hardware store with a indoor lumber yard.
With a theme tune that slaps way harder than it has any right to.
