Reynolds Triple redwood video

[Oxman]

The Reynolds Triple is 2 redwood trees, one of which forks into 2 stems just above ground level.

The tree is very close to the Eel River. The day we were there, a road crew was doing some brush chipping alongside Highway 101.

Here's an old edit by G. F. Beranek. 11 minutes.

Crossbow line setting in the Reynolds Triple

This photo of the Reynolds Triple is by Mark Moeske & AJ Remy, who climbed it about a year later. They were featured in the Ascent Up Big Jack video of the Tree Fun(d) Redwood climb.

This video is by Jerry Beranek at http://atreestory.com

Enjoy !

 

[Oxman]

Here's a screenshot from the video. The base of the codominant stem I'm standing on has an unusual 'figure-of-eight' shape.

Right at the 90 degree angle where it plugs into the trunk & turns vertical, it's narrow, but tall.

Claus Mattheck would say that all the downward force is directed into the trunk, so the tree adds wood to carry that force of gravity. His "Axiom of Universal Stress" is explained in his book, "Stupsi Explains the Tree".

The tree is in a river valley protected from wind. No wind stress on this codominant spar is pushing sideways, so the tree grows no wood to the side of the attachment. The result is a 'blade of wood' at the attachment point by my feet.

Matthecks 'I-beam' profile of the shape of the attachment is shown on pages 65-66 of the 3rd Enlarged Edition of the 1999 book. IML website