That's one KNOTTY piece of wood!

A cool piece of wood and some pollarding info? Yeah, I got you covered.

[@swims11torches]

You call it Pollarding, I'll call it tree body horror

[@rianantony]

If you call all tree body horror by the name "tree body horror" you're gonna have a lot of things named tree body horror

[@Joghurt2499]

​@@rianantonyoh yeah like bonsai. man am I happy we can't hear the screams of pain 😂

[@willrascal1362]

It's done because willow specifically is prone to infections so by pollarding the infection will stop at the knuckle and not continue to the main parts of the tree

[@AmericansWillRise]

​@@Joghurt2499, maybe they're screams of pleasure?? 🤷‍♂️

[@exciteddelirium3590]

Tree circumcising

[@JosephsDesign]

Beavers actually do this naturally. When they harvest willow wood they usually don’t kill the trees and that causes them to grow back denser. I love waking around the beaver dams because these things build and alter the areas they live in almost like people do.

[@FLPhotoCatcher]

Some of my ancestors had a surname "Pollard". Apparently, they pollarded for a living in England.

[@Reptilian-Boss]

So, they climb the tree and chew off the limbs?

[@JosephsDesign]

@@Reptilian-Boss The willows where I live have short trunks about a foot tall that split into many tall limbs, so when the beavers chew off these limbs, more branches regrow from the short trunk. Beavers only seem to fell tall trees because they need branches, with short ones like these willows it’s easier for them to just remove the branches directly.

[@Reptilian-Boss]

@@JosephsDesign Oh, cool. 😉👍 I had a feeling you'd explain.

[@Justinthetrees]

Beavers rule

[@vashdread29]

Thank you for not filling those holes with resin. Reminds me of my childhood when I visit my grandparents' house with all the wooden furniture with imperfections like this.

[@hannahware3751]

Wow that unlocked a memory of me loosing small toys like legos in a tree table my grandpa made. It was a cool table! Just not for building legos 😂

[@Jefferson-ly5qe]

Yes! Nice to see some woodwork on here that isn't full of plastic

[@Lancer_0010]

Yes this and the worm marks were so cool

[@BigChicken-eg4bg]

​@@hannahware3751, I read that as "... losing small boys."

[@kekee102]

You should look up pecky homes.

[@user-bm3qk8lt4n]

"I mean look At DEEZ KNOTZ." -Justin the trees

[@garthbrown2154]

This comment is criminally underrated

[@Filthy_rabbit69]

I love the smell of deez knotz

[@CFC4134]

That is knot funny

[@Irondragon1945]

uwu

[@nikoleg_mitrofan]

​@@garthbrown2154it's just a degenerate lewd joke man

[@kareyreuben3869]

That final vase and the twig in the same color palette was absolutely beautiful.

[@Sam_Loves_Fishing]

Love ittttt

[@Treeckogeek]

Yea i mean it looked nice but imagine if you were contained in a room made of human flesh with deformed and polished edges. That doesn’t seem too nice.

[@SanchoDomingo_]

Nahh ur lying

[@AcidGambit419]

Treeckogeek that is the best comment I will read today

[@jbcoolerninja]

You mean horrific

[@Snoozeritooooooos]

Get yourself a partner who looks at you the way Justin looks at wood EDIT: your minds are dirtier than a burger king kitchen.

[@samsanimationcorner3820]

Sounds gay, I'm in.

[@supaflywhiteguy7635]

Pause

[@yelloooooooo]

if that body is covered in limb scars, it's clearly got some interesting things hiding in there... So, if you're ever walking around a city or a park or even just your own neighborhood, and you see a person that looks like it's been cut back to just a big ol' nub, you now know what to call it. *your new partner*

[@Cyberpunker2077]

😏

[@kingpaladin5591]

Ayo

[@DaMaLoJo]

"It's neat. Look how neat. Ok bye!" has the same energy as a kid at show-and-tell, and I love it

[@coalcreekdefense8106]

Pollarding has originally done to produce a lot of straight branches to be turned into staves. They started out pruning them right above the ground to make the staves easy to harvest, but then deer kept getting to the young branches, so they started doing it up high out of their reach.

[@J_Stronsky]

Hmm hadn't heard staves, I was told it's for firewood kindling as the smaller thinner branches produced are more desirable and can be harvested more regularly

[@user-np1fz9tk6z]

​@j.stronsky2166 couldn't it be for both and also other reasons? Do you even work with wood? Have you studied trees? Are you an arborist?

[@beatrizpereira60]

​@@user-np1fz9tk6za bit aggressive m8

[@fjalarhenriksson]

wrong willow is not originally used for staves its originally used for building fances and houses thats why they did what they did.

[@rickskeptical]

I heard it was done in order to create conversational conflict at the local pubs.

[@apocalypse94]

that would make a nice lamp base.

[@Beezlie727]

I knew I'd find this comment! 👍😀

[@Mizunaki_uwu]

You have unintentionally summoned a whole different demographic of knot enjoyers

[@AstridCobalt]

Look at those knots... :3

[@Crux___]

Fr tho, our community has completely ruined the word “knot” for me in any other context TwT

[@bakerap2211]

@@Crux___agreed.

[@ballzetr4652]

The Rock eyebrow rise boom sound*

[@mikaelafox6106]

Whitney 😱 Wisconsin

[@capetonianllama]

The Whomping Willow reference 😂

[@Woodcocce]

That has got to be the single most beautiful piece I've seen from you, in my opinion. And a vocabulary lesson? Heck yes.

[@BooBuKittyPhuk]

Agreed

[@valeriep.8364]

Stunning. I'm in awe.

[@ruthpresutti4472]

Yes, stunning and ❤you and your vocabulary lessons! Please keep doing what you do and being you! You make my day!!!

[@Bisexualcat]

I love learning about other people’s obsessions, and this wood is beautiful!

[@trvman1]

and now someone from China has seen this and now making plastic versions that look just like this :)

[@WinkTartanBelle]

We pollard trees, especially willows, to use those supple young shoots for weaving fences, baskets, furniture, wreaths and such. All those willow wreaths you buy in the craft stores start this way, as does every woven willow wicker furniture piece. Those lovely handcrafted baskets have to have a lot of supple willow branches to be made. Here's where that stuff comes from. It's like growing any other crop. The more you know!

[@peterbillings3276]

I just watched a really interesting video on that exact subject a few days ago. Incredible plant! Pretty cool that the trunk itself can have artistic value too after it’s been pollarded to harvest its thin, useful shoots.

[@everest9707]

In northern Portugal, they also used the young shoots to tie vines to overhead structures - keep the vines off the damp ground and to get as much sunlight as possible. People now use plastic ties or string, and wonder why there are so many willow trees near vines.

[@pastelxpocket]

Thanks for explaining some of the positives. I recently was talking to my fiancé about how bad this is for trees in people’s yards. Most people do it to keep big limbs from over sidewalks or power lines, but they cut the whole tree back instead of removing problem limbs. I was really upset because a whole city block was like that. I knew there had to be a real reason why people do it, but I knew that that reason had nothing to do with neighborhood trees.

[@isabelmcgaugh711]

That’s very cool!

[@MonkeyJedi99]

I vaguely recall reading somewhere that pollarding was also used to produce arrow and crossbow bolt shafts. I have no clue where I read it, so I can't back that up factually.

[@inane103]

I genuinely appreciate and love designers that play along imperfections in nature. Thank you for having the vision.

[@crazychaba9816]

In this case is it really imperfections of nature or man made imperfections 💁🏾

[@mishmarsh2029]

I love knotting!

[@garlic_greed]

Ayo

[@vintage-radio]

what

[@Largest_M]

same

[@user-we3zr6ty3d]

👍

[@JackPorter]

uhh pim i would really not be screaming that atop of your lungs...

[@paulamarie43]

I’m so in love…with that vase!!! Really!! Your work blows my mind . I have quite an affinity with trees so your channel brings great joy!!

[@snickers_barr7135]

He calls it pollarding… I call it tree murd*r😟😢

[@yoshibutimterrariapixelart1923]

​@@snickers_barr7135I'm sorry, is the guy who made a beautiful vase out of an already incredibly deformed and likely already dead piece of wood evil? Aww, maybe you should stop focusing on individuals and focus on the big corps who are chopping down millions of acres of forest in the Amazon and other places worldwide!

[@clarahartzen]

In Swedish we call it “hamla” and fun fact/story: our willow, originally, is just a little branch from our next door neighbor, that we got after he had “hamlat” his willow. Sooo for the first few years it looked pretty stupid with just a planted branch in our yard 💀 but now ~10 years later we have a cute little willow, guarding our home 🥰

[@pangert1]

Tak så myket 😅

[@NoneOfTheAbove123]

Hamla is 'attack' in Hindi.

[@Glmorrs1]

My dad did that with a mimosa tree. Just took a branch and stuck it in the ground. Eventually it became a beautiful tree in the shape of a Y and it broke my heart when half of it snapped off in a storm and we had to cut the rest down because it turns out it had some kind of fungal infection.

[@Joeysaladslover]

Good god stop saying we you were under 7

[@clarahartzen]

@@Joeysaladslover I’m 28 and “we” refers to me and my now husband…

[@seaninness334]

Spectacular knotting. Beautiful final piece! Great spot. I'm not a wood worker but I used to stare at wood paneling as a kid, mesmerized by the patterns.

[@netfox9855]

oh god, knots

[@Dootalt]

@@netfox9855 hehehehehehe, knotting, hehehehe

[@thepugchugzchannel4511]

​@@netfox9855 I love knotting and showing knotting content to all my friends and family

[@brianlarrabee6666]

Oh man.... I just went back 4 years into the past. I LOVED watching your content during Covid but I eventually deleted TIKTOK, and haven't seen anything since. Man this brought me back. I even gave an audible "Aw no way!" when I scrolled onto this video. Heck yeah.

[@Iruduan]

I am knot dissapointed by how this looks😂

[@aferdeath9320]

🤤🤤

[@aiexzs]

@@aferdeath9320 :(

[@Panaderov-ro5kt]

​@@aferdeath9320 what...?

[@StoleYourToeshehe]

I'm actually scared you might be my dad

[@LTblazon]

@@aferdeath9320not that kind of knot

[@sarahyena3966]

"LOOK AT THESE KNOTS"

[@vuk_ustipak]

Holy shit the furries watching this video

[@ZuTheComCat]

Furries hearing the word knot is like a sleeper agent being activated lol

[@FyreFoxUwU]

UwU

[@theoneguywiththeyoutubecha204]

Came looking for this comment, thank you, lmao.

[@theoneguywiththeyoutubecha204]

@@vuk_ustipak That is correct. (why do you know what it means?)

[@tracyroake2815]

Wow! That has to be the most beautiful piece I've seen you turn! Exquisite!

[@Youxshii]

Why did I blink and flinch when the wood shavings fling at the camera

[@Dingus-69420]

Cuz ur a wuss lol

[@jorik41]

In Belgium and in the Nederlands as well, trees like willows are planted along field edges. They act like natural pumps, helping to keep swampy fields dry. These trees are regularly in dutch "knotted", usually every year or two, to prevent them from getting too heavy and breaking under their own weight. The wood is mostly used as fire wood since it is not that strong and dry relatively Quickly .

[@Boo-pv4hn]

We have willow trees but mostly by the canal banks. Very beautiful tho!

[@eh6971]

The branches of the willow were used to make fences and baskets.

[@tsmeman63]

After “knotting” our willows we gave the thinnest branches to our horses. Something for them to nibble on. A few branches per day.

[@bluberri7897]

My town got hit by a really bad ice storm in October two years ago before the trees could lose all their branches. The ice clung to the leaves and made the branches so heavy they broke off all the trees. There was a bunch of property damage to houses and cars, entire trees fell over, and almost everyone lost power for a week. It makes me sad to see all of the trees still broken today, but a lot of them have begun pollarding just like you said!

[@ToddiGreat-le2qu]

Wait a few years then start looking for cedars that it bent badly but didn't kill. You can get some of the most beautiful grain patterns.

[@ReggiePlayer1]

Wow, this is so cool. This reminds me of my great uncle Roland. Thank you for the nostalgia.

[@saltmuffinLGDPS]

wait, what does that mean

[@shark_boytoy]

@@saltmuffinLGDPSI think their uncle is dead.

[@tabisuematwiju5865]

That turned out GORGEOUS!!! 🤎 🤎 🤎 Love it!!! 🤎 🤎 🤎

[@littlewidget]

I just realized that he basically planted a child in a piece of its relative Edit: OMG, thank you for 1k likes

[@poodle101]

wait so youre telling me you dont wear the skins of your dead relatives from time to time?

[@BaldCoryxKenshinfan]

@@poodle101do you also mimic your dead relatives voices and act like a skin walker? ☺️

[@mpjstuff]

It's like a sunny side up egg on a chicken sandwich. The horror!

[@monsterkingadversity6662]

@@poodle101Well I sure do. Idk about these weirdos on here…

[@monsterkingadversity6662]

@@mpjstuffI know right! Who tf likes runny eggs?? Imagine calling me weird for wearing the skins of my ancestors quilted into an oversized cloak when you eat runny eggs…Humans are creepy lol

[@potchary8366]

I love knots! Knotting is so satisfying 🥰

[@haighguy8862]

Bruh 😂

[@NTFAgentOmen]

I hate that I immediately understood the joke…

[@J_Pawsadas-PTSDEnjoyer]

this comment is gonna turn me to christianity just so i can tell you to seek god

[@HazeEmry]

One of my people!

[@TheEagleofSteel]

Someone explain the reference?

[@hollowinside9511]

The title of this short is making me giggle to myself as I officially toss my brain into the gutter. If you know, you know. 🐾

[@Tinkyowo]

💀

[@lizpeterson6719]

That piece is just stunning. I wood look at that thing all day. If your channel just did wood, I'd watch every day. It's just so beautiful and people take for granted how much we owe to wood. I love wood. Very nice job, and very interesting info about it and how to handle it.

[@hilarymol6607]

This was really cool. And you took me all the way back to the first time I was taught to use a lathe. I never was anything special (carpentry-wise) and the biggest project that made it out of shop class was a pathetic looking hinged box (but it held, and I still have it 36 years later) that I stained within an inch of its life. It looked nothing like your vase, but as a 13-year-old kid and the only girl in the class, I felt pretty cool anyway. This makes me miss woodworking, and I'm delighted that YT randomly dropped you into my algorithm!

[@CW19941]

Knots can add so much character to a piece like that. Beautiful work!

[@lottejuulke79]

I’m dutch and where I’m from in primary school we’d have a “pollarding day” every year where we’d go out and help pollarding the willow trees for a day. It was always great fun and afterwards we’d roast a little breaddough on a stick (which we picked and cut ourselves ofcourse) over the campfire which was arguably the best part :)

[@illi6378]

We also have the bread dough on a stick tradition (stokbrood, lekker met stroop en kaas) after 'arbour day' in South Africa.

[@waffleaffle231]

I mostly did this with my mom, we'd cut back our bougainvilleas (one stabbed my scalp once) and rose bushes. Didn't know there was a word for it until today :)

[@muurrarium9460]

@@waffleaffle231 I think that is just called "pruning".

[@waffleaffle231]

@@muurrarium9460 we cut literally all the branches off and leave them as stumps. Pruning to me is just trimming dead branches or ones that need to go for other reasons

[@mclovin5662]

@@waffleaffle231Pollarding willows is not the same as pruning roses. If you prune roses in the same way as willows, you are doing it wrong. (the Dutch name of that specific willow is "Knotwilg")

[@maryefromky]

i appreciate these videos for the beautiful woodworking, and for the vocab lesson. now i know chattoyancy and pollarding, lol

[@walkerschlott4518]

Very cool piece of wood. Pollarding is reminiscent of how you would prune for bonsai. You let branches grow and thicken to thicken up the trunk and then chop them off and have finer branches and then continue the process until you get a lot of taper from trunk to branch tip.

[@FATmonkeyCHRIS]

Nice Harry Potter ref. Gorgeous work

[@wrong_era]

I THOUGHT NO ONE ELSE NOTICED AND WAS SO UTTERLY DISAPPOINTED, YOU MADE MY DAY

[@tag_u_rit]

I can't believe that more people didn't comment on this 😂

[@No.1chuuyaDazaisimp]

Yes

[@Fishwolfcrow]

Yes

[@georgelinford5576]

It's not like that was a hidden reference or anything he literally showed the image. No-ones talking about it because it was blatantly obvious, not some clever easter-egg

[@lord_duckian9521]

Pollarding also produces straighter branches which can be useful for pole turning

[@elenauhing4566]

Love the woodwork! Becoming a such a lost art...thanks for the beauty and explanation.

[@fgrey-]

I love all that _pollarding chatoyancy_

[@Justin-gv3lp]

I’m sorry what did you call me?!

[@taylor3621]

You just summoned an entire fandom

[@J12338]

Which one?

[@giorgospapoutsakis5271]

What fandom?

[@moizahmed7392]

​@@J12338harry potter, when he said womping willow. Its a famous 400 year old tree in the grounds of hogwarts

[@tryplot]

​@@moizahmed7392I thought they were referring to the furry community with how often knots were mentioned

[@ShadowTrailMedia]

Galaxy Quest, right? Right? 'Cuz of the lathe? Anyone?

[@silasfoulon]

In Balgium where I live these tree are very common and are also a good source for fire wood every time it gets chopped👍

[@lenas4342]

Here in Germany too. They also made baskets with them. We have some really old ones in our village, they are so big, the kids hide inside.

[@hideouswh5718]

Netherlands too!

[@deloridwright3721]

That turned out beautifully.

[@evancooper5885]

Always love watching your videos. Wonderful work!

[@patriciaroberts1034]

This is absolutely gorgeous. I love it very unique look

[@hatehypocrisy1]

you must be joking

[@adventurehippie0514]

Omg!!!! That's is beautiful with some fern and baby breath .ohh goodness wat a beautiful piece of art. Thank you for sharing

[@TMIvey-gk4mw]

And if it’s cut down at ground level, it is called coppicing. It was popular on Willow trees so they could have a bunch of long slender branches to weave into baskets. The higher up level of where the pruning happens in pollarding was more way of keeping livestock from eating on the tree at that level so you achieve the same effect but your livestock didn’t eat up your materials.

[@lukearts2954]

Fun fact: I live in an area that is historically known for pollarding, Flanders. And the Flemish word for a pollard is "knot", so we call it knotting... Seems pretty appropriate, wouldn't you agree? We got tons and tons of pieces like that lying around rotting away for multiple reasons. Reason 1: it's unusable as construction wood or as cutting Reason 2: it's crap to split, and even if you can split it, it stacks like dung, so it's really not appreciated as firewood _especially_ because the rest of the tree has such perfect wood with long straight grain that splits and stacks like a dream, so you're really not going to waste all your time on a cut-off from a pollard. (or a whole pollard if the tree got over 500 years and outlived its viability) But now this gets interesting: Reason 3: environmental reasons! Pollards are known to become microbiotopes hosting dozens to 100+ species that live in just a few cycles with each other. Fungus, moss, herbs, even bushes, insects, birds (nests and all), rodents, lizards, amphibious creatures (puddles can form inside the pollard and stay wet for weeks through a dry spell), predators (tree martens LOVE pollard willows),... Leaving the cut pollard on site keeps all these species on site as well, so they can migrate to nearby pollards or populate the new pollard as it forms... (the pollard seen in this video is likely from a 10 year old fresh pollard that was reset. When they are around this diameter, they need to be reset below the pollard to avoid the tree suffocating itself in the crown. This widens the reach of the branches and opens up the crown allowing for a lot more places to sprout new branches. Pollard willows are a source of materials that can be used for a wide variety of purposes, from firewood and charcoal for blacksmiths, to furniture, fencing, and even baskets, and greenery scaffolds. I personally grow them for art.

[@susanmcmasterson956]

Very cool. Is there a way that I could see the art that you create? Can you add a link?

[@lukearts2954]

@@susanmcmasterson956 unfortunately I don't have any digital portfolio... But there are some horticulturists who do similar things, I'll grab a link for you :)

[@lukearts2954]

@@susanmcmasterson956 ​ I've been working on larger projects than this one too. The downside is it takes many years before you actually get to see roughly what the intended structure will be. And if something comes up that interrupts the work, it can all be lost. I have lost a couple of my projects when I had a car accident that landed me in hospital for 7.5 months and unable to do the required work for the next 2 years... I had to give up on those projects. The biggest one I'm working on, is an actual house (something between a shed, a workshop and a teepee - the accident also caused issues with this project, but I was able to redesign the plans and go on from what it had grown into). The roof should be done in about 10 years. From there I can grow additional floors... When manipulating willow, you can just add genetically identical trunks by planting cuttings, and when scraping the bark on the spots where the woven branches touch, they graft and become one living organism. The advantage is that when something happens and a trunk dies, you can just replace it by a new one and let it grow into the existing structure. Shaping growth and manipulating where branches grow is very well explained on the channel @Skillcult who uses his knowledge and techniques to create interesting fruit trees that bear various kinds of fruit on a single tree and make them easier to maintain and harvest. There are so many things we can do with trees that so little people know about and even less people actually use. The techniques that I use are mostly used for organic playgrounds for children, which is a great application. But I would like to create both functional and esthetically pleasing organisms. And there is no building permit required, because we're talking about shaping a bush or a tree. My ultimate dream is to make a sustainable home with an integrated living scaffold. It does require revising "normal" expectations, though. Floors would never be even, so furniture should be adjustable movable or flexible, or even living as well. Lots of hanging applications and tensegrity are used in my design. I'm struggling a little with finding a sustainable solution for consistent insulation, because I want it to not interfere with the continuous growth of the scaffold, yet be integrally tight/sealed. So what I do is a little bit in between construction, architecture, arborism and art. I know for a fact that I will not live long enough to fully see my ideas realized, but that doesn't hold me back in developing them further :))

[@lukearts2954]

@@susanmcmasterson956 that longer message was a comment that followed the link I posted. Unfortunately it already got removed. So I'm going to try and write it in such a way that it'll stay up, but you might have to edit it in the address bar... (like I will write "dot" where you'll have to put an actual "." )

[@Can_Head]

a single tree is more beautiful than any poem

[@ToddiGreat-le2qu]

You'll probably never see a poem as lovely as a tree. I think , anyway.

[@ZeldaOtaku1]

You'll probably never seen a really lovely tree. I think , anyway@@ToddiGreat-le2qu

[@ToddiGreat-le2qu]

@@ZeldaOtaku1 huh ?

[@ToddiGreat-le2qu]

@@ZeldaOtaku1 I think that I shall never see a poem as lovely as a tree. A tree upon.......

[@ZeldaOtaku1]

oh I'm sorry boss I thought you were saying that poems were lovelier than trees. My mistake @@ToddiGreat-le2qu

[@tyffaneelavely8087]

Love that HP whomping willow reference. 😂Also, the end result looks dope as hell.

[@olekanuriel9359]

I was looking for this comment. Found you potterhead

[@ICECREAMMMM_]

Same😂😂😂

[@TH3L3G3ND]

😭😂

[@maryzinda5103]

Harry Potter fans are summoned

[@bladehoon]

womp womp

[@stephenroot1012]

I just learned of the process recently. My understanding is that willow branches are a popular choice to use for wicker and basket weaving. So they harvest the branches for that on a regular basis. It was on the Low Tech magazine website.

[@KatjaKiev]

Also a way to protect young sprouts from grazing animals without fencing.

[@casperrabbit7254]

Man this channel makes me wanna get into woodworking so I can go out and find some gnarly old trash wood and shape it up into a cool vase 😆

[@LoriPeace]

Same!

[@Justinthetrees]

DO IT

[@silversiren7046]

There are trees in Japan which are never cut down. Each one is grown in a specific way to produce straight limbs that grow upwards which can be later pruned to produce perfectly straight planks. This leaves the original tree behind and intact, so the environment isn't affected as badly as removing a tree completely, and produces less waste.

[@emmaaberdeen2515]

When I came across your account I was fascinated, and then you taught us “chatoyancy”. Ever since I’ve been telling everyone I know what it is when I see it. So cool to be taught something and teach someone else about it too!

[@staind.raindrop]

This is the first thing I've seen from this creator, so it sounded like bizarre jibberish when he said, "Pollarding chatoyancyyyy" in that slow-mo echo effect. I was so confused, but your comment just taught me "chatoyancy" by giving me a spelling to google, and redeemed the entire short in my mind, so thanks!

[@Rhodes_prime]

“Look at dees knots” nice

[@anthonycarlos1763]

Have you looked into how traditional wooden chess sets are made? Might be a fun and challenging project

[@hazydor6368]

💯

[@ladyofthemasque]

Pollarding is done about 8-10 feet off the ground so that herbivores that like to browse (eat leaves off of trees) have a hard time doing so. (Cattle, deer, moose, horses, etc, are all browsers as well as grazers, grass-eaters.) Coppicing, on the other hand, is done down at or near ground level, and it does the exact same thing: It encourages new growth to shoot up. Only a few tree species can be coppiced or pollarded without seriously affecting the health of the tree, among them: most maples, many oaks, hazelnut trees, willow, and the only conifer that will tolerate it, the yew tree. I mention hazel trees and willows in particular because their thin, new-growth branches were often created by coppicing every handful of years specifically so that people would constantly have material for weaving baskets, making hurdle fences, so on and so forth. With hazel, if you do it right, most species will sprout nuts by year 2 or 3 (once the roots are established by around year 5 in some caces), which means you can usually harvest them after around 4 years, and still get a couple years of nut productivity. Pollarding and coppicing need to be done during the plant's "dormant period," which is usually in the winter. That way, when spring comes around, energy is sent into new growth, rather than into repairing "injuries" to the tree. Additionally, never cut a pollarded or coppiced tree parallel to the ground, as the flat surface will collect water and permit rot and disease to affect the plant.

[@1963wheeler]

If you ever get tired of turning wood, don't get tired of using your voice! From another gentleman who's trying to find his way through the world of fascinating listeners with a voice that kind of sounds like Sam Elliott with a little bit of Uncle Sam mixed in. And yes, I also turn wood.

[@OisinC.D]

thank you for your knowledge magical tree man

[@robinandbiscuit1683]

Beautiful!! 😊 ❤

[@jeffbybee5207]

The reason for this is it was cut tall enough that livestock could graze around the tree but the shoots coming out were harvested for arrow making. In areas with out grazing the trees were cut off about 6 inches above the ground to ease shaft harvesting

[@dotcassilles1488]

Pollarding is also done to provide food for sheep, cattle, goats or other animals in times of drought. Trees may also look like this if they are cut back from powerlines to make sure they don't create a fire. Blessings from South Eastern Australia, Dot

[@cbygelightbulb]

It was also done to provide a good source of young branches for wicker weaving

[@NotJustGnome]

As a tree guy, it pains me to hear processes I use mispronounced. It is PILL-ARD. If you want to educate, make sure you are first

[@BaldCoryxKenshinfan]

Damn bro, why’re you so aggressive about it though? you could’ve politely told him the correct pronunciation 😭😭

[@pstew5309]

Wow. That piece of wood will definitely be functional for anything. Thank goodness you brought it to its full glory.

[@user-bu7hl9ji8i]

I love trees and this is gorgeous ❤❤❤❤

[@brumm0m3ntum94]

honestly always thought it was an attempt to kill trees in a situation where they couldn’t legally chop the tree down with paperwork but it would technically be considered pruning or something along those lines

[@ashrowan2143]

If done at the wrong time of year it could definitely kill a tree so in some cases potentially

[@katiegustafson6765]

People used to used the thin pollard branches for tomato cages, woven fences and baskets

[@DyslecticAttack]

For certain kinds of trees it could be, and for even more if done at the wrong time it could be. But for this specific kind of willow (knot-willow when directly translated from Dutch, dunno how it's called in English) it's common practice. Partially because the branches of this are very flexible, thin, yet sturdy, which made them very useful and wanted. But also because it has been proven over centuries of doing this that it doesn't directly harm the tree if done right.

[@MrsJolene-]

Actually, for this type of willow, the "pollarding" is necessary. This tree grows very quickly and is very flexible when young. This means that if you were to let it grow naturally, without pruning, it would grow too tall, catch too much wind and eventually split off fat branches, wounding the tree. (trees can bleed out if this happens in summer when there's a lot of sap circulation) It could split right down the middle and die. A fast growing tree is not strong, it can't take the wind. Casting off big branches in storms is normal if left intact, but it hurts the tree and is dangerous for us. Good maintenance of a willow means cutting all branches off every two to three years. So all branches are young and flexible. This means the tree can grow old without risking wind damage. It's a tree that sprouts new growth so easily, it can grow a whole new tree from a discarded branch. Just stick a bit of tree in the mud and voila, new willow.

[@Drekromancer]

That piece has an incredible amount of character. You did awesome.

[@t-shirts1260]

ok. that's truly neat

[@carolebaker3703]

Love the creativity! btw, the willow tree is my favorite sad tree!❤

[@matthewpurkis5079]

When done at ground level it’s called coppicing, both are used to generate lots of small branches for stakes and weaving etc but pollarding has the advantage of being too high for most herbivores to browse the shoots

[@markb8954]

We pollard our Hybrid Poplar trees (16] every other year or so. The poplar trees really send up some beautifully straight branches, some 15 long.

[@MichałZawadzkiVB]

Grain Minecraft sent me

[@marcorubbianifontana]

Same

[@henrybazinet7436]

For some reason, when it stopped spinning for the first time, I thought this guy had mistaken a giant prehistoric animal's lower jaw for wood. 💀

[@user-kj6nl1wd6j]

Pollarding is very popular with Catalpa trees. Those ornamental short trees with umbrella shaped canopies you often see flanking driveways are Catalpas. But let them grow unpruned, they can become massive, and produce fragrant clusters of blossoms that are a bit orchid like.

[@solarguy6043]

Trees that are pollarded or coppiced (the same, but different) live longer than if they just lived out their natural lives. It's also a great way to get more sustainable firewood out of a given size of woodlot.

[@TotalPotterhead]

Bro just summoned a whole fandom with that one line 😂

[@randaltompson]

It's also and old way of creating trees that are used specifically to gather sticks.

[@mechanicaldavid4827]

Aren't most trees a gathering of sticks?😉

[@Stettafire]

Think you're thinking of coppicing, not pollarding

[@lalli8152]

​​​@@StettafireIts pretty much same thing, but the height is different where you cut the tree. Coppicing is essentially you cut the tree to the stump, but pollarding higher up. Pollarding was also used for same things as coppicing the tree, but the added height prevents animals from eating the new shoots. Pollarding is though also used to prevent the fast growing trees to grow too fast, and for aesthetic purposes so even modern towns does it

[@Dim-yz6wk]

Beautiful craftsmanship ❤

[@rc....]

God's creations are neat

[@traceyg6458]

I use to live near Epping Forest and many of those trees in days gone by were pollarded and now having grown out are quite fantastical. You did a great job, a bit frightening at the beginning of that turning process though! 😊

[@stacybroussard3097]

That wood is ABSOLUTELY STUNNING!! 😍😍😍 WOW, I AM IN AWE OF HOW BEAUTIFUL THIS VASE IS THAT YOU MADE...THE COLORS ARE INCREDIBLE 🤩

[@Anita-k]

Ngl, this looks absolutely amazing and it's unique. ❤

[@riccardocalosso5688]

Pollarding is common with willows because young willow branches are thin and flexibles, perfect for tying bundles together. We still use them to collect and store bundles of vine branches in the vineyard, so that we can use them to start the stove in winter.

[@peccant]

So cool, right?! Ever heard of a "copse of trees"? It's usually a small stand of trees that are close together, and used to be how one would describe a group of trees that were 'coppiced,' or cut to ground level, allowing new growth from the trunk and a convenient renewable source of fire wood.

[@confusedsnake]

What a beautiful piece! I picked up a tree someone threw on the trash some weeks ago, and though I still don't know what kind of tree it is, at least now I know why the main trunk has been cut. So thank you!

[@DoobieKeebler]

Reminds my of my grandma's old house. Miss the house & miss her too.

[@nandisaand5287]

Pollarding is what you call it when you cut it back around 5-6 feet (which is above deer browsing height). When you cut it close to the ground, it called "coppicing"

[@anniee5487]

my hometown is known for having pollarded willows all along the beach and country roads. its really beautiful, im really fond of them

[@grovermartin6874]

Such a stunning vase! It must be so rewarding to uncover such beauty!

[@NarlepoaxIII]

Here's an extra fun fact for you: In medieval England, they would also do this with yew trees, in order to get really long and straight pieces of wood to make poles and bows with. One large branch is be called a stave, and it would be cut into fourths to make things with. This is where the term "quarterstaff" comes from, because it's a quarter of a stave.

[@PoisonousEther]

Watching you work on it makes my hands hurt oof! 👏🏾

[@debbiesteffen448]

My gosh that turned out gorgeous 😊

[@karensimons9260]

That is splendid! Beautiful with oil. Love it!

[@Just_Call_Me_Tim]

I’d love to have a lamp base made from something like this. Imagine the warmth it would give off!

[@laylamasterton7806]

That's probably the most beautiful piece of wood I've ever seen. Incredible work👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

[@elisabethmolatore9071]

My sister and I, before she passed away used to say, OKAYBYE just that way, very short and quiet and fast A nice memory. I learn much from your show. Your work is delightful. Tx

[@Willmaysay1234]

Oh my that is beautiful! Colors got me drooling.

[@IfonlyIwassmaller]

Cool man! Thank you! Also, that looks gorgeous.

[@tracyroake2815]

I think that has to be my favorite vase yet!

[@susankinsman8445]

That is incredibly beautiful. ❤ A piece of art.❤❤❤

[@kathleenbueter1272]

Breathtaking piece of art