For anyone wondering what this is, I'm pretty sure it's the Crooked Forest in Poland.
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.
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.
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!
strong continuous winds flatten very young trees without killing them. They then keep growing, with a permanent kink
That's what happened to Chuck Berry
Not great for sawing into planks, but they work just fine to make paper and agglomerate.
are you saying you're willing to cut these majestic fellas down??
TFW the “good” pile is the same as the cull pile
There's some in saskatchewan https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crooked_Trees
/shock
why cant we use something else like extruded polystyrene for lumber? or bearboard plastic lumber?
Because plastic is shit for the environment, and wood literally grows on trees?
Like why do you want to replace lumber with plastic?
if it can be made from recycled plastic that could help the environment
By creating way more CO2 in the process to further accelerate a climate disaster?
Your heart is in the right place - just the execution is wrong.
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.
It cost a fortune but it works better especially in harsh climates.
I just made a deck with that a few years ago. There are actually two types: composite (wood covered in plastic) and full plastic. The boards are perfectly straight and it'll never need stain. It was definitely more expensive, but it's nice up here in Michigan.
i wonder if anyone is recycling plastic for it
I forget what its called. Its nice though
We could use loads of different materials but it's just they all have their pros and cons. With price being a big factor.
You ask me, we'd all use concrete all day erryday. Even more than we do.
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