In a tiny corner of western Poland a forest of about 400 pine trees grow with a 90 degree bend at the base of their trunks - all bent northward.
Surrounded by a larger forest of straight growing pine trees this collection of curved trees, or "Crooked Forest," is a mystery.
Planted around 1930, the trees managed to grow for seven to 10 years before getting held down, in what is understood to have been human mechanical intervention.
Though why exactly the original tree farmers wanted so many crooked trees is unknown.
Surrounded by a larger forest of straight growing pine trees this collection of curved trees, or "Crooked Forest," is a mystery.
Planted around 1930, the trees managed to grow for seven to 10 years before getting held down, in what is understood to have been human mechanical intervention.
Though why exactly the original tree farmers wanted so many crooked trees is unknown.
Saturday, September 24, 2011
how fascinating!
maybe they were making hurleys for hurling or some instrument that needed the curve in the grain as this makes them stronger
Wooden boats-
maybe not...
No, Ash Tree's are made to make Hurleys not Pine
Could be good for making bows?
Ox Yokes....Look it up.
There are a couple of reasons, just off the top of my head, why someone would do this.
Ox yokes are curved in this way and would be much stronger if the wood grew that way instead of having to be carved.
Another use could have been sled or sleigh runners. Same advantage over bending or carving. Fascinating though.
maybe you're a muppet
facepalm
The trees were probably bent like that for building boats. the wood is stronger if it has a natural bend, boat builders would go out and look for trees with a close enough bend to it to fit their project, and i bet a farmer was trying to achieve this.
yep,i agree with the previous poster. I considered this myself years ago as a way of making strong arches for several projects. Someone with forethought and time did this. Maybe wagon wheels or arched doorways/windows or furniture. It takes skill to wet,bend & secure arches in any scheme.
Boat ribs?
It could be for ships/boats
my balls itch
it was to gather wood for the hulls of boats .... easy
Haha, this is clearly some lad in the 1930's thinking to himself 'Ye know what, I bet this will just plain fuck people up in the future'. Old school trollin like a boss.
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7-10 years? Seems to me something else happened in Poland within that time frame.......
there's a patch of forest just like this in the woods of hampshire college in MA. looks like a crazy ritual center.
make a good bow
It's called soil creep. As colder temperatures pervade the area, the moisture in the soil freezes and expands, displacing the soil and anything not held fast in it (ie. saplings), then during the warmer part of the day, thaws and retracts. Over days, tiny saplings can be moved to angles ranging from just slightly off 90° to laying flat against the ground as if they had fallen.
The saplings prefer very much to remain vertical, as their ability to be able to catch sunlight to keep photosynthesizing is dependent on it, so it will actually bend itself towards the sunlight, much like a sunflower turning its 'head' to face the sun. The result, these curved trunks of trees until they are old enough to grow straight up, and not be affected by soil creep.
This phenomenon is most prevalent on hilly terrain, as the steepness of the slope causes for more drastic soil creep. Science.
Do you know how long trees grow? Nobody would do that.
Ive heard it is most likely for ship building. Trees are bent as saplings to grow curved so they can make a much stronger hull.
They were bent like that so I could scratch that unscratchable area just about 1cm up my ass.
they all ready said that the farmors did it, thanks for the BS try there soil creeper.
THIS IS SO SIMPLE, THEY WERE MADE TO CONFUSE IDIOTS IN THE FUTURE
That's where Chuck Norris first started practicing his round house kick. Once he got better he started practicing at places like the Sahara forest.
Interesting post Anon 5:46, but it would appear you looked at the pictures & didn't read the header. "Science" is much more effective when you're paying attention.
Alpenhorns?
the explanation is simple... when was young the forest was hitten by a storm or hard wind and all the trees were lying on the soil, aftet that they begun growing normally
often happens with corn fields
Eat me.
Maybe the witnessed Nazi gruelties and bent away …
It's the behavior of a drunk man
Great post i think it was for style, talking of style check out this video http://youtu.be/cJMNw4DH-l8
A bow would not work if it had a natural bend.
Its actually an act of nature. I live in the northern Rockies and we have trees like this all over our mountains. We call them pistol butts. What happens is smaller younger trees get buried under heavy wet snow that bends the trees over, and when spring comes the tree keep growing even under snow load and end up growing all bent and twisted like this.
so how exactly did they make them grown like this?
I'm thinking something along the lines of embedding them with some sort of metal, such as iron, since they are all bending northwards? anyone else have another explanation?
It's the GAY forest, they're not straight at all
Soil creep generally happens on a hill, not flat land
Maybe, one year there was abnormally cold weather and this stunted the growth of the tree's.
Its obviously Chuck Norris's doing...
bears scratched their cracks on those. and also, the neanderthals.
Rubber trees, they are made out of rubber. Those guys think of everything, sausage, hot dogs, jokes.
DAS FUCK?!
really? a bow? the wood being pre-curved that much would completely ruin the power of the bow, which is made of only slightly bent pieces of wood glued together. i hate people
i think this forest fell victim to a natural disaster like a flood or landslide...then recovered and reached for the sun
God did it.
ski's for sleds
someone was just drunk and thought "hey i'll bend this tree...and that...and that...etc.
this.is.POLAND!
Occam's Razor tells me it was done intentionally by humans. The "why" is left to speculation.
maybe it is a mystery why dont you f**king leave it at that. and stop analyzing such awesomness. maybe the farmer was a stoner and was like yeaahhhh! lets make these crooked trees cuz it would look frickin awesome!
^ That's what I was thinkin!! hahaha, there doesn't have to be a reason for things like this other than it would be fuckin fantastic when it was finished :D
the answer is so obvious.... These trees had a whore pine tree mother who slept around with sunflowers; when the trees were born their wood was not very hard so the baby pine trees were able to bend and follow the sun just like sunflowers do; until one day when the sun was pointing north all the baby trees suddenly matured at the same time and their wood was hardened at the same time in that position,,, kindly note that the use of the terms matured,wood, hardened and positions was not intentional...
It's for sitting....duh. A bunch of natural benches
The Nazi's planted a forest swastika http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forest_swastika
To me, the trees look like the communist sickle. Perhaps this was a political statement. Granted, Poland didn't become communist until 1945...
This is actually the left-overs from earlier methods of making canes. When the trees were younger and much more malleable they had heavy logs, milled down to the right size place on them at the base.
They would then grow into the required shape (or close enough that they could be steam-shaped at a certain point) for the canes.
This is not speculation. The trees were planted and form-curved to provide ready-made parts for furniture, specifically Thonet bentwood rockers.
As previously mentioned, there is significant cost associated with the steaming and clamping usually involved, growing the parts would be a logical labor reducer.
As also mentioned, 8-10 years after the planting of said trees, the region was overrun, and the manufacture of furniture was interrupted first by the re-tooling of plants for the war effort, and again by the invasion. Ultimately, production of the chairs began again, but after the war most of the parts for these chairs was produced in Czechoslovakia.
Maybe a rival trow ate lobster in winding roads toward cloud! I understand fully bent tree cow sink a submarine. Blam!
my pussy itches like mad
Boat building and bow building use hardwoods. Clearly not a hardwood forest.
I think that if the person grew them that way for any specific reason, they would have used them for what they wanted, so i agree with the previous poster.
Anonymous said... October 2, 2011 6:53 AM
someone was just drunk and thought "hey i'll bend this tree...and that...and that...etc.
this.is.POLAND!
^
so stupid.
About "dancing pnie tree" forrest: one in Pniewo isnt only one in PL; another one is in Zasieki (http://maps.google.pl/maps?q=zasieki&hl=pl&ie=UTF8&ll=51.733275,14.671769&spn=0.020253,0.038581&sll=51.729261,14.691296&sspn=0.081018,0.154324&vpsrc=6&hnear=Zasieki,+%C5%BCarski,+Lubuskie&t=h&z=15). Actualy if u like misterious places Zasieki is the one that u travel to. There was german weapons factory complex, and u can find over 400 bunkers and buildings (industrial mostly) in hiden deep forrest. (Piniewo was military object as well but smaller)
And the Dancing Pine Tree: my friend was studing dendrology and the final exam was about dancing pine tress, we actualy cut 3 of them with help of local renger so we ask about the story; it was grown by germans (in 1930 it was german terrytory ; look at he map of poland form 1939 : http://www.jura.pl/kultura_i_rozrywka/009%201938.jpg )at first was about to mess with grown cone (dont know proper name of it in english - science experyments anyways)and make tree to grown like spiral but later on they realize that it wont work that way. Local carpenters were very interessted in producing furniture of it. Not very mysterius doh. U see it take time to grow the tree and 9 years later II ww begin, than after war it become polish terrytory. Locals were moved to germany, new, polish setlers didnt go here coz it was mined (mines wewe taked of complitly in 2004 in Zasieki - dont know about Pniewo). Trught those 60 years knowloge was lost but fortunetly that ranger was same interestet in this temat as you all so he did reserches.
Any questions? just ask.
one more think Pniewo means n english tree-trunk;
and links with pictures of Zasieki (not of dancing pine tree):
http://fortyfikacje.legnica.pl/zasieki.php
http://fortyfikacje.legnica.pl/zasieki-1.php
And im very sorry for my english.
BOOM-A-RANGS............I hate people too......
Several folks are attributing this to soil creep (or pistol-butting.) This site is too flat for that to be the case. Even if soil creep were occurring, the trees' response would be an even curve, not a straight stump followed by a curved bole.
A storm could do this, but the surrounding forest doesn't show this if the description is correct. With nearly every tree in a small area showing the same effect and none around it showing any effect makes a natural event an unlikely cause.
An explosion in the early 1940s in Poland doesn't seem out of the question, but trees should be bent in more than one direction - away from the explosion.
It makes much more sense that the trees were bent over (or broken) mechanically. Heavy equipment passing through could do this - deliberate or otherwise.
That is completely cool! :)
People. Bows get their strength from bring straight. Wow. Unreal. Someone bent them fir fun. I do it all the time to saplings when I am in the forest.
Pine is not used as bow wood. It is not strong enough.
SNOW.
nigger
Western Poland was Nazi occupied territory in the late 30's when they were bent. I wonder if the Nazi's wanted curved wood for some application.
Phase one: Bend trees to make them grow with a large curve in the trunk.
Phase two: ?
Phase three: Profit!
I live near this place (about 250km) and i never heard about this place. Amazing
German tanks pushed them one way, then Russian tanks pushed them the other....
they've been planted 80 years ago... it can't be so mystirious the reason for this shape. it ain't like they're 400 y/o.
The secret was never meant to be found. Stop wondering why and start loving the view.
see the canals leading to the river system, Boats!
Boomerangs, definitely. My studies confirm this. I was walking through the park recently,watching two people throwing a boomerang. I was trying to deduce why a curved object appears larger as it becomes nearer to the observer,and then it hit me...........
we have trees similar to those where i live in california. the bend developed after a strong snowstorm blew in and left an unusual amount of snow for that time of year. the younger trees were damaged and grew sideways for the next couple years, but after that they began to correct themselves and continue to grow up towards the sky. these photos are great and slightly erie. keep up the good work!
maybe they just wanted seats
cool :)
Canes! I met a man who carves canes and props them up when the trees are saplings. These ones were never harvested. And became too big unless you were 35 feet tall.
I will post a pic of a cane made this way I bought one from the guy who did this manipulated the trees as saplings then harvested them as canes. I am sure of it.
Maybe they didn''t want the trees cut, just keep it wooded?
What a bunch of dumb asses. Get a life. People suck. Who fucking cares. You could have people starving in a third world country and it would get less comments than something as stupid and useless as this.
Its not really that fucking amazing !!
Maybe the farmers wanted a natural chair. Those crooked trees look ok to sit on.
what a load of bollocks
dem trees got aids
Or whats most likely is that these were done i a heavy war era and this would be perfect for moving through the trees with out over head war planes seeing you
this is obviously done by man and is part of some industrial forestry practice the only unknown is the purpose of bending the trees. it is obviously for some wood product that needs both strength abs a curve possibly oxen yolks or a boat keel
Someone probably just thought it would be a cool idea to make some curved trees. Not much of a mystery, they were built less than 100 years ago.
Its so you have something to hang your ass over while you take a shit outdoors. Perfect squatting height. No danger of falling over in your poo (or of getting pushed over into it by your jerk friends). Tree trunk to one side to hold onto for support. Perfect...and thoughtful.
This is caused when you prune the top of a pine tree off and all that is left is the lower branch to grow. They grow off the side of the stem hence the bent look. The branch starts off being completely horizontal but if you but the rest of the tree off it becomes the new leader and grows toward the light.
Aliens.
For more firewood, duh.
Any specific variety of tree has a known height of growth; by bending the trunks when the trees were young they were able to produce 6-8' more firewood per tree.
Maybe the guy that planted them was a Bender?
haha... all the "I'm smarter than historians" that post with "simple" explanations for an incredible phenomena
its called a slump, when the land moves at a very slow rate, thus the tree trunks being bent
science, soil creep cant occur on level ground... look at the picture before u comment you thick cunt
Giant back scratcher ?
This is an alphorn-forest, see http://www.alphorn.ca/e.htm
I'll tell you what it was. It was that goddamn Sasquatch.
If it were snow it would be happening everywhere not just here.
There are two theories being discussed the most here: man-made for industry or caused naturally. I will add 2 cents to each theory.
1. If they were man-made, the trees would have most likely been harvested at a young age as most bent wood applications use trees with 2 to 3 inch diameters. These trees would be planted in many adjacent fields of trees of different ages to ensure yearly harvest. This field was most likely abandoned as World War II was ignighting. Questions linger for me on this theory... Where are the artifacts of this enterprise? Where are the tools for harvest and consequently the actual product itself? Where are the records for operations like this? There should be SOME sort of historical record or local story.
2. Act of nature
There are rare occurances in nature that would be able to manipulate trees in this uniform matter in such a local spot. Why aren't surrounding forrest manipulated in the same way? How were these trees bent in such a consistant manner? Tree growth in nature is mostly random and inconsistant.
The was most likely man made and abandoned.
Vortex
Who cares why they're curved, they look fascinating!
I always wanted to do something like this as a kid.
These bent trees are exactly like the bending grains from CROP CIRCLES. England has the most numerous frequency of scientifically proven "alien phenomena" that produces actual biological changes to the areas affected within the Crop Circles. Look up these Crop Circles and you'll see. The patterns of Crop Circles is beyond a spoof. The plants affected have been vigorously examined and found to be bent, but not broken, nor killed. Carl G. Simpson, M.D. San Antonio, TX
Aliens.
"Anonymous said... October 5, 2011 6:41 AM
Western Poland was Nazi occupied territory in the late 30's when they were bent. I wonder if the Nazi's wanted curved wood for some application."
You oughta read more books dude. Today's Western Poland used to be East Germany for a few centuries all the way to May 1945
May be soil contamination ?
in some places strong winds blowing periodically in the same direction, so that young weak trees of not too strong wood lie down to ground, we have similar cases in our housing estate
I had never seen anything like this;is it true that you never stop learning.
Greetings
This was to be an area in mid 1930's to be used as an outdoor gathering place and when the trunk would be cut down, there would be approx. 50 permanent seats now all facing the right direction for a performance.
omg what sorcery is this??
Wake up people . If god were real(any god ever in any religion ever) then u would freakin kno it by now. Just cause ur great great great grandparents believed something doesnt make it true. Just like a lot if shit they thought was right that smart people like me know is not The shitty shit that happens around the world should let u know that no ones doin shit for you but you. There's no magic. If there is a god then he is the laziest person ever
they curved the trees to make rocking chairs out of it
they cut the top and let the branch become a main core
that is all to it,
no aliens,no magic,no soil contamination lol
its Easier to chop the tree down this way...
they were pegged down with rope, moved slightly every few weeks in the growing season and used for furniture and plough harnesses - old polish guy had the allotment next to me and told me how and why he was doing it (new chair and pine needles to keep slugs off his peas)
Ирина Христова-Данкова Това природата е голяма работа - има обяснение и за този факт, а моето скромно мнение е следното, т.е. имам две преположения: 1) Имало е оставени отсечени дънери, но които са били с доста здрава структура и са биле от млади дървета, на коит...о за експеримент сигурно е била сложена присадка от иглолистната растителност от същата гора. Случилото се е станало преди много години, предполагам, че някъде са минали поне 80 години. Другите дървета, които се виждат на заден план са новоизраснали и те са си прави. Характерно за кореновата ситема на повечето иглолисни е, че тя е плитка и подадатлива при силен вятър, като височината на дървото е спомогнала за процеса на "извайване" да се наклонят.; 2) Може да е имало частично изкоренени дървета, които да се се захванали с "НОВИЯ СИ ЖИВОТ на ПО-РАЗЛИЧНИЯ СТВОЛ с ИЗВИВКА". И при двата случая, тогава времето е било студено и влажно. Бих казала, че дори е валяло много дъжд и непрекъснато, така че добре да подгизнат корените, след това е паднал сняг и пак дъжд, и пак сняг, при което от здравия ствол е избила устойчива на тези екстремни условия - коренова система. След година или две, когато младите фиданки са "тръгнали", вероятно пък се е появил постоянен силен северен вятър за няколко месеца, при което дръвчетата са продължили да се поддават и лесно са се огънали, като това е било доста продължителното духане. Вероятно, в района на тази гора от поне 50 години този природен катаклизъм не се е повтарял, но се очаква в бъдеще да се прояви при условие, че не стане някой пожар! Е, ефекта тогава няма как да бъде същия, защото вече имаме голяма ГОРА и всички дървета в нея, ще се крепят и пазят едно към друго и държат в еко-системата. В покрайнините на същата гора, може да поддадат само някои новоизникнали и/или новозалесени млади видов, но това огъване, няма как да се получи вече за старите дървета - ЗАСНЕТИТЕ на снимката, защото дънерите им са големи! И така споделих своето мнение, като се надявам, че има известен процент истина в предположенията ми. Поздрави и благодаря за хубавата снимка, ще потърся още инхормация за този природен феномен в Полша - ИГХрд
Stoned farmes wanted to bug out future generations of stoners.
it is a mircle of ALLAH
Pollocks are crooked SOB's
Anyone ever stop to consider it was just some really bored people? I remember doing similar things with tress tying them in goofy shapes more than 20 years ago at random spots out in the forest around my family farm. When I walk the same paths now I can still see some of the odd shaped trees that grew held in place for years.
Shut up!
Anyone who says "tree's" as the plural form of tree is not entitled to an opinion. Thanks.
My wood curves the same way.