Histree Treehouse is history
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cool pics oxman!
jp
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Nice pics but it makes me jealous to work in a place where you can bomb out chunks below .... you get sick of the constant tiny drop zones and structures (TV aerials, gutters, fences, cars, wires, windows, pets, paths, pools, divots in lawn) etc in suburbia all the time.
Beaut scenery, so, did ya's have to clean up the mess or just leave it in the bush as habitat?
Beaut scenery, so, did ya's have to clean up the mess or just leave it in the bush as habitat?
guymayor
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"Steel guy lines lash down this tree of King Kong stature. Burgeoning striations of wood grain texture display a map of internal trunk stresses."
Michael you are becoming quite poetic in your silver years. Let your light shine!
Michael you are becoming quite poetic in your silver years. Let your light shine!
Guyline anchor for the Histree Kellog Oak.
This Garnier Limb is set in another California Black Oak (Quercus kellogii) at an angle just less than 90 degrees. The GL can handle it without bending, as it is Grade 8 steel. Can the Oak wood resist being crushed by the lag threads at the bottom of the hole?
Notice another guyline, seen in the lower left hand side of this photo.
This Garnier Limb is set in another California Black Oak (Quercus kellogii) at an angle just less than 90 degrees. The GL can handle it without bending, as it is Grade 8 steel. Can the Oak wood resist being crushed by the lag threads at the bottom of the hole?
Notice another guyline, seen in the lower left hand side of this photo.
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A little more on the HisTree of this tree:
MIchael Garnier was drawn to the land because of this tree.
Although the horses were certaily a problem the real culprit was the inevitable decline of this amazing tree coupled with Garnier's thinking he could help it out and so...built a garden around the base of the tree (inside the corral fence).
He watered and fertilized all summer and that is not what this tree had experienced in the past.
The platform was Garniers refuge from the law when they were tring to bust him for his tree houses not meeting codes...his battle once won has paved the way for tree housers recent efforts to build their dreams within the local laws.
When I first saw it 10 years ago the half of the tree still left measured 110" x 88" DBH. The shell of the lower trunk was horshoe shaped from the failure of the seconf trunk with less that 6" sound wood.
I got Michael to buy an air spade and while trying to fix the soil a bit did a root crown exam and found all of the original structural roots turned to mush. A web of adventitious roots was all that was left!
I used to climb the tree via the hand holds that were nailed to the long dead section of the main trunk...a cool stem move allowed entry to the platform through a trap door (about a 5.7 climb).
I decided that, for me, the tree was unsafe to climb in four years ago. That winter Garnier called me to tell me the tree had shifted. They leave the climbing ropes up year round and they made a great plumb line that showed the movement. This is when the zip wire to the rest of the resort was changed to a breakaway link and the ground cables added. Michael and I also tried to graft new branches onto the lower trunk and had planted a couple small trees nearby thinking to graft them into the old trunk!
Out N About used the tree until this summer when it died...Michael had actually leveled out the platform as the tourists were somewhat disconcerted by the tilted surface up there! All the workers there remember times when I've arrived on site and immedialtely been yelling at them to get the people off the darn platform as soon as they arrive...one time there were nine people on the platform and two people ascending...one of whom was a big fat guy! I swear I could see the tree flexing and hear it groaning.
For the last three years there have been spectacular displays of fungi fruiting bodies around the base of the tree. One of the main buttresses had developed a horizontal crack... I will post a picture or two when I can.
So....the current management plan is to try and keep the dead tree standing for as long as possible....thatkfully they have stopped taking people up into the tree...sigh of relief form ScottDB!
PS We are trying to salvage some of the wood that MIke and his Japanese helper Taka cut off. I think the tree was 500-800 years old!
MIchael Garnier was drawn to the land because of this tree.
Although the horses were certaily a problem the real culprit was the inevitable decline of this amazing tree coupled with Garnier's thinking he could help it out and so...built a garden around the base of the tree (inside the corral fence).
He watered and fertilized all summer and that is not what this tree had experienced in the past.
The platform was Garniers refuge from the law when they were tring to bust him for his tree houses not meeting codes...his battle once won has paved the way for tree housers recent efforts to build their dreams within the local laws.
When I first saw it 10 years ago the half of the tree still left measured 110" x 88" DBH. The shell of the lower trunk was horshoe shaped from the failure of the seconf trunk with less that 6" sound wood.
I got Michael to buy an air spade and while trying to fix the soil a bit did a root crown exam and found all of the original structural roots turned to mush. A web of adventitious roots was all that was left!
I used to climb the tree via the hand holds that were nailed to the long dead section of the main trunk...a cool stem move allowed entry to the platform through a trap door (about a 5.7 climb).
I decided that, for me, the tree was unsafe to climb in four years ago. That winter Garnier called me to tell me the tree had shifted. They leave the climbing ropes up year round and they made a great plumb line that showed the movement. This is when the zip wire to the rest of the resort was changed to a breakaway link and the ground cables added. Michael and I also tried to graft new branches onto the lower trunk and had planted a couple small trees nearby thinking to graft them into the old trunk!
Out N About used the tree until this summer when it died...Michael had actually leveled out the platform as the tourists were somewhat disconcerted by the tilted surface up there! All the workers there remember times when I've arrived on site and immedialtely been yelling at them to get the people off the darn platform as soon as they arrive...one time there were nine people on the platform and two people ascending...one of whom was a big fat guy! I swear I could see the tree flexing and hear it groaning.
For the last three years there have been spectacular displays of fungi fruiting bodies around the base of the tree. One of the main buttresses had developed a horizontal crack... I will post a picture or two when I can.
So....the current management plan is to try and keep the dead tree standing for as long as possible....thatkfully they have stopped taking people up into the tree...sigh of relief form ScottDB!
PS We are trying to salvage some of the wood that MIke and his Japanese helper Taka cut off. I think the tree was 500-800 years old!
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Last one for now... this is Taka an amazing tree houser from Japan. We have been meeting at Out N' About for ten years as of this fall when Ox did the tree work and the tenth annual World Tree House Conference.
Find Taka on the web at www.treehouse.co.jp
Enjoy the pics! Scott
Find Taka on the web at www.treehouse.co.jp
Enjoy the pics! Scott
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So it stays the way it is, I wonder how much decent wood is left in the base?
No-one is allowed up there anymore, right?
And that pic of TD reminds me of the old professor bloke in the movie Back to the Future.
Good on ya Tom.
Coronet cuts too, nice, you guys doing a great job.
No-one is allowed up there anymore, right?
And that pic of TD reminds me of the old professor bloke in the movie Back to the Future.
Coronet cuts too, nice, you guys doing a great job.
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After Scott took that pic of the Knife Swallowing Tree we beat feet out from underneath. That is one of the scariest trees that I have EVER seen!
I had to give up that knife at the Portland Airport...
I had to give up that knife at the Portland Airport...
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