A cool piece of wood and some pollarding info? Yeah, I got you covered.
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@swims11torches10 ай бұрын
You call it Pollarding, I'll call it tree body horror
@rianantony10 ай бұрын
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
@Joghurt249910 ай бұрын
@@rianantonyoh yeah like bonsai. man am I happy we can't hear the screams of pain 😂
@willrascal136210 ай бұрын
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
@AmericansWillRise10 ай бұрын
@@Joghurt2499, maybe they're screams of pleasure?? 🤷♂️
@exciteddelirium359010 ай бұрын
Tree circumcising
@JosephsDesign10 ай бұрын
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.
@FLPhotoCatcher10 ай бұрын
Some of my ancestors had a surname "Pollard". Apparently, they pollarded for a living in England.
@Reptilian-Boss10 ай бұрын
So, they climb the tree and chew off the limbs?
@JosephsDesign10 ай бұрын
@@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-Boss10 ай бұрын
@@JosephsDesign Oh, cool. 😉👍 I had a feeling you'd explain.
@Justinthetrees10 ай бұрын
Beavers rule
@vashdread299 ай бұрын
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.
@hannahware37518 ай бұрын
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-ly5qe4 ай бұрын
Yes! Nice to see some woodwork on here that isn't full of plastic
@Lancer_00103 ай бұрын
Yes this and the worm marks were so cool
@BigChicken-eg4bg2 ай бұрын
@@hannahware3751, I read that as "... losing small boys."
@kekee102Ай бұрын
You should look up pecky homes.
@user-bm3qk8lt4n4 ай бұрын
"I mean look At DEEZ KNOTZ." -Justin the trees
@garthbrown21542 ай бұрын
This comment is criminally underrated
@Filthy_rabbit692 ай бұрын
I love the smell of deez knotz
@CFC41342 ай бұрын
That is knot funny
@Irondragon19452 ай бұрын
uwu
@nikoleg_mitrofanАй бұрын
@@garthbrown2154it's just a degenerate lewd joke man
@kareyreuben38699 ай бұрын
That final vase and the twig in the same color palette was absolutely beautiful.
@Sam_Loves_Fishing9 ай бұрын
Love ittttt
@Treeckogeek9 ай бұрын
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_9 ай бұрын
Nahh ur lying
@AcidGambit4199 ай бұрын
Treeckogeek that is the best comment I will read today
@jbcoolerninja9 ай бұрын
You mean horrific
@Snoozeritooooooos9 ай бұрын
Get yourself a partner who looks at you the way Justin looks at wood EDIT: your minds are dirtier than a burger king kitchen.
@samsanimationcorner38209 ай бұрын
Sounds gay, I'm in.
@supaflywhiteguy76359 ай бұрын
Pause
@yelloooooooo9 ай бұрын
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*
@Cyberpunker20779 ай бұрын
😏
@kingpaladin55919 ай бұрын
Ayo
@DaMaLoJo9 ай бұрын
"It's neat. Look how neat. Ok bye!" has the same energy as a kid at show-and-tell, and I love it
@coalcreekdefense81069 ай бұрын
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_Stronsky9 ай бұрын
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-np1fz9tk6z9 ай бұрын
@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?
@beatrizpereira609 ай бұрын
@@user-np1fz9tk6za bit aggressive m8
@fjalarhenriksson9 ай бұрын
wrong willow is not originally used for staves its originally used for building fances and houses thats why they did what they did.
@rickskeptical9 ай бұрын
I heard it was done in order to create conversational conflict at the local pubs.
@apocalypse949 ай бұрын
that would make a nice lamp base.
@Beezlie7272 ай бұрын
I knew I'd find this comment! 👍😀
@Mizunaki_uwu9 ай бұрын
You have unintentionally summoned a whole different demographic of knot enjoyers
@AstridCobalt9 ай бұрын
Look at those knots... :3
@Crux___9 ай бұрын
Fr tho, our community has completely ruined the word “knot” for me in any other context TwT
@bakerap22119 ай бұрын
@@Crux___agreed.
@ballzetr46529 ай бұрын
The Rock eyebrow rise boom sound*
@mikaelafox61069 ай бұрын
Whitney 😱 Wisconsin
@capetonianllama5 ай бұрын
The Whomping Willow reference 😂
@Woodcocce10 ай бұрын
That has got to be the single most beautiful piece I've seen from you, in my opinion. And a vocabulary lesson? Heck yes.
@BooBuKittyPhuk10 ай бұрын
Agreed
@valeriep.836410 ай бұрын
Stunning. I'm in awe.
@ruthpresutti447210 ай бұрын
Yes, stunning and ❤you and your vocabulary lessons! Please keep doing what you do and being you! You make my day!!!
@Bisexualcat9 ай бұрын
I love learning about other people’s obsessions, and this wood is beautiful!
@trvman19 ай бұрын
and now someone from China has seen this and now making plastic versions that look just like this :)
@WinkTartanBelle9 ай бұрын
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!
@peterbillings32768 ай бұрын
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.
@everest97072 ай бұрын
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.
@pastelxpocket2 ай бұрын
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.
@isabelmcgaugh7112 ай бұрын
That’s very cool!
@MonkeyJedi992 ай бұрын
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.
@inane10310 ай бұрын
I genuinely appreciate and love designers that play along imperfections in nature. Thank you for having the vision.
@crazychaba98169 ай бұрын
In this case is it really imperfections of nature or man made imperfections 💁🏾
@mishmarsh20292 ай бұрын
I love knotting!
@garlic_greed2 ай бұрын
Ayo
@vintage-radio2 ай бұрын
what
@Largest_M2 ай бұрын
same
@user-we3zr6ty3d2 ай бұрын
👍
@JackPorter2 ай бұрын
uhh pim i would really not be screaming that atop of your lungs...
@paulamarie439 ай бұрын
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_barr71356 ай бұрын
He calls it pollarding… I call it tree murd*r😟😢
@yoshibutimterrariapixelart19234 ай бұрын
@@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!
@clarahartzen10 ай бұрын
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 🥰
@pangert110 ай бұрын
Tak så myket 😅
@NoneOfTheAbove12310 ай бұрын
Hamla is 'attack' in Hindi.
@Glmorrs110 ай бұрын
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.
@Joeysaladslover10 ай бұрын
Good god stop saying we you were under 7
@clarahartzen10 ай бұрын
@@Joeysaladslover I’m 28 and “we” refers to me and my now husband…
@seaninness3349 ай бұрын
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.
@netfox98555 ай бұрын
oh god, knots
@Dootalt3 ай бұрын
@@netfox9855 hehehehehehe, knotting, hehehehe
@thepugchugzchannel45112 ай бұрын
@@netfox9855 I love knotting and showing knotting content to all my friends and family
@brianlarrabee66663 ай бұрын
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.
@Iruduan10 ай бұрын
I am knot dissapointed by how this looks😂
@aferdeath93209 ай бұрын
🤤🤤
@aiexzs9 ай бұрын
@@aferdeath9320 :(
@Panaderov-ro5kt9 ай бұрын
@@aferdeath9320 what...?
@StoleYourToeshehe9 ай бұрын
I'm actually scared you might be my dad
@LTblazon9 ай бұрын
@@aferdeath9320not that kind of knot
@sarahyena396610 ай бұрын
"LOOK AT THESE KNOTS"
@vuk_ustipak10 ай бұрын
Holy shit the furries watching this video
@ZuTheComCat10 ай бұрын
Furries hearing the word knot is like a sleeper agent being activated lol
@FyreFoxUwU10 ай бұрын
UwU
@theoneguywiththeyoutubecha2049 ай бұрын
Came looking for this comment, thank you, lmao.
@theoneguywiththeyoutubecha2049 ай бұрын
@@vuk_ustipak That is correct. (why do you know what it means?)
@tracyroake281510 ай бұрын
Wow! That has to be the most beautiful piece I've seen you turn! Exquisite!
@Youxshii3 ай бұрын
Why did I blink and flinch when the wood shavings fling at the camera
@Dingus-694202 ай бұрын
Cuz ur a wuss lol
@jorik419 ай бұрын
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-pv4hn9 ай бұрын
We have willow trees but mostly by the canal banks. Very beautiful tho!
@eh69719 ай бұрын
The branches of the willow were used to make fences and baskets.
@tsmeman639 ай бұрын
After “knotting” our willows we gave the thinnest branches to our horses. Something for them to nibble on. A few branches per day.
@bluberri78979 ай бұрын
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-le2qu9 ай бұрын
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.
@ReggiePlayer19 ай бұрын
Wow, this is so cool. This reminds me of my great uncle Roland. Thank you for the nostalgia.
@saltmuffinLGDPS9 ай бұрын
wait, what does that mean
@shark_boytoy9 ай бұрын
@@saltmuffinLGDPSI think their uncle is dead.
@tabisuematwiju5865Ай бұрын
That turned out GORGEOUS!!! 🤎 🤎 🤎 Love it!!! 🤎 🤎 🤎
@littlewidget9 ай бұрын
I just realized that he basically planted a child in a piece of its relative Edit: OMG, thank you for 1k likes
@poodle1019 ай бұрын
wait so youre telling me you dont wear the skins of your dead relatives from time to time?
@BaldCoryxKenshinfan9 ай бұрын
@@poodle101do you also mimic your dead relatives voices and act like a skin walker? ☺️
@mpjstuff9 ай бұрын
It's like a sunny side up egg on a chicken sandwich. The horror!
@monsterkingadversity66629 ай бұрын
@@poodle101Well I sure do. Idk about these weirdos on here…
@monsterkingadversity66629 ай бұрын
@@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
@potchary83669 ай бұрын
I love knots! Knotting is so satisfying 🥰
@haighguy88629 ай бұрын
Bruh 😂
@NTFAgentOmen9 ай бұрын
I hate that I immediately understood the joke…
@J_Pawsadas-PTSDEnjoyer9 ай бұрын
this comment is gonna turn me to christianity just so i can tell you to seek god
@HazeEmry9 ай бұрын
One of my people!
@TheEagleofSteel9 ай бұрын
Someone explain the reference?
@hollowinside95119 ай бұрын
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. 🐾
@Tinkyowo9 ай бұрын
💀
@lizpeterson671912 күн бұрын
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.
@hilarymol66079 ай бұрын
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!
@CW199419 ай бұрын
Knots can add so much character to a piece like that. Beautiful work!
@lottejuulke7910 ай бұрын
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 :)
@illi637810 ай бұрын
We also have the bread dough on a stick tradition (stokbrood, lekker met stroop en kaas) after 'arbour day' in South Africa.
@waffleaffle23110 ай бұрын
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 :)
@muurrarium94609 ай бұрын
@@waffleaffle231 I think that is just called "pruning".
@waffleaffle2319 ай бұрын
@@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
@mclovin56629 ай бұрын
@@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")
@maryefromky2 ай бұрын
i appreciate these videos for the beautiful woodworking, and for the vocab lesson. now i know chattoyancy and pollarding, lol
@walkerschlott451810 ай бұрын
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.
@FATmonkeyCHRIS10 ай бұрын
Nice Harry Potter ref. Gorgeous work
@wrong_era10 ай бұрын
I THOUGHT NO ONE ELSE NOTICED AND WAS SO UTTERLY DISAPPOINTED, YOU MADE MY DAY
@tag_u_rit10 ай бұрын
I can't believe that more people didn't comment on this 😂
@No.1chuuyaDazaisimp10 ай бұрын
Yes
@Fishwolfcrow9 ай бұрын
Yes
@georgelinford55769 ай бұрын
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_duckian95219 ай бұрын
Pollarding also produces straighter branches which can be useful for pole turning
@elenauhing456618 күн бұрын
Love the woodwork! Becoming a such a lost art...thanks for the beauty and explanation.
@fgrey-9 ай бұрын
I love all that _pollarding chatoyancy_
@Justin-gv3lp9 ай бұрын
I’m sorry what did you call me?!
@taylor36219 ай бұрын
You just summoned an entire fandom
@J123389 ай бұрын
Which one?
@giorgospapoutsakis52719 ай бұрын
What fandom?
@moizahmed73929 ай бұрын
@@J12338harry potter, when he said womping willow. Its a famous 400 year old tree in the grounds of hogwarts
@tryplot9 ай бұрын
@@moizahmed7392I thought they were referring to the furry community with how often knots were mentioned
@ShadowTrailMedia9 ай бұрын
Galaxy Quest, right? Right? 'Cuz of the lathe? Anyone?
@silasfoulon10 ай бұрын
In Balgium where I live these tree are very common and are also a good source for fire wood every time it gets chopped👍
@lenas434210 ай бұрын
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.
@hideouswh571810 ай бұрын
Netherlands too!
@deloridwright37213 ай бұрын
That turned out beautifully.
@evancooper588510 ай бұрын
Always love watching your videos. Wonderful work!
@patriciaroberts10349 ай бұрын
This is absolutely gorgeous. I love it very unique look
@hatehypocrisy18 ай бұрын
you must be joking
@adventurehippie05149 ай бұрын
Omg!!!! That's is beautiful with some fern and baby breath .ohh goodness wat a beautiful piece of art. Thank you for sharing
@TMIvey-gk4mw9 күн бұрын
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.
@lukearts29549 ай бұрын
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.
@susanmcmasterson9569 ай бұрын
Very cool. Is there a way that I could see the art that you create? Can you add a link?
@lukearts29549 ай бұрын
@@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 :)
@lukearts29549 ай бұрын
@@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 :))
@lukearts29549 ай бұрын
@@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_Head9 ай бұрын
a single tree is more beautiful than any poem
@ToddiGreat-le2qu9 ай бұрын
You'll probably never see a poem as lovely as a tree. I think , anyway.
@ZeldaOtaku19 ай бұрын
You'll probably never seen a really lovely tree. I think , anyway@@ToddiGreat-le2qu
@ToddiGreat-le2qu9 ай бұрын
@@ZeldaOtaku1 huh ?
@ToddiGreat-le2qu9 ай бұрын
@@ZeldaOtaku1 I think that I shall never see a poem as lovely as a tree. A tree upon.......
@ZeldaOtaku19 ай бұрын
oh I'm sorry boss I thought you were saying that poems were lovelier than trees. My mistake @@ToddiGreat-le2qu
@tyffaneelavely80879 ай бұрын
Love that HP whomping willow reference. 😂Also, the end result looks dope as hell.
@olekanuriel93597 ай бұрын
I was looking for this comment. Found you potterhead
@ICECREAMMMM_7 ай бұрын
Same😂😂😂
@TH3L3G3ND7 ай бұрын
😭😂
@maryzinda51033 ай бұрын
Harry Potter fans are summoned
@bladehoon2 ай бұрын
womp womp
@stephenroot10129 ай бұрын
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.
@KatjaKiev9 ай бұрын
Also a way to protect young sprouts from grazing animals without fencing.
@casperrabbit725410 ай бұрын
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 😆
@LoriPeace10 ай бұрын
Same!
@Justinthetrees10 ай бұрын
DO IT
@silversiren7046Ай бұрын
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.
@emmaaberdeen251510 ай бұрын
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.raindrop9 ай бұрын
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_prime10 ай бұрын
“Look at dees knots” nice
@anthonycarlos17639 ай бұрын
Have you looked into how traditional wooden chess sets are made? Might be a fun and challenging project
@hazydor63689 ай бұрын
💯
@ladyofthemasque23 күн бұрын
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.
@1963wheeler10 ай бұрын
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.D10 ай бұрын
thank you for your knowledge magical tree man
@robinandbiscuit168310 ай бұрын
Beautiful!! 😊 ❤
@jeffbybee52075 ай бұрын
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
@dotcassilles148810 ай бұрын
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
@cbygelightbulb9 ай бұрын
It was also done to provide a good source of young branches for wicker weaving
@NotJustGnome9 ай бұрын
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
@BaldCoryxKenshinfan9 ай бұрын
Damn bro, why’re you so aggressive about it though? you could’ve politely told him the correct pronunciation 😭😭
@pstew53099 ай бұрын
Wow. That piece of wood will definitely be functional for anything. Thank goodness you brought it to its full glory.
@user-bu7hl9ji8i14 күн бұрын
I love trees and this is gorgeous ❤❤❤❤
@brumm0m3ntum9410 ай бұрын
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
@ashrowan214310 ай бұрын
If done at the wrong time of year it could definitely kill a tree so in some cases potentially
@katiegustafson676510 ай бұрын
People used to used the thin pollard branches for tomato cages, woven fences and baskets
@DyslecticAttack10 ай бұрын
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-10 ай бұрын
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.
@Drekromancer2 ай бұрын
That piece has an incredible amount of character. You did awesome.
@t-shirts12609 ай бұрын
ok. that's truly neat
@carolebaker37032 ай бұрын
Love the creativity! btw, the willow tree is my favorite sad tree!❤
@matthewpurkis50799 ай бұрын
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
@markb89549 ай бұрын
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.
@MichałZawadzkiVB2 ай бұрын
Grain Minecraft sent me
@marcorubbianifontana2 ай бұрын
Same
@henrybazinet74369 ай бұрын
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-kj6nl1wd6j2 ай бұрын
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.
@solarguy60439 ай бұрын
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.
@TotalPotterhead9 ай бұрын
Bro just summoned a whole fandom with that one line 😂
@randaltompson10 ай бұрын
It's also and old way of creating trees that are used specifically to gather sticks.
@mechanicaldavid482710 ай бұрын
Aren't most trees a gathering of sticks?😉
@Stettafire9 ай бұрын
Think you're thinking of coppicing, not pollarding
@lalli81522 ай бұрын
@@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-yz6wk2 ай бұрын
Beautiful craftsmanship ❤
@rc....10 ай бұрын
God's creations are neat
@traceyg64587 күн бұрын
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! 😊
@stacybroussard30972 ай бұрын
That wood is ABSOLUTELY STUNNING!! 😍😍😍 WOW, I AM IN AWE OF HOW BEAUTIFUL THIS VASE IS THAT YOU MADE...THE COLORS ARE INCREDIBLE 🤩
@Anita-k2 ай бұрын
Ngl, this looks absolutely amazing and it's unique. ❤
@riccardocalosso56882 ай бұрын
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.
@peccant4 ай бұрын
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.
@confusedsnake2 ай бұрын
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!
@DoobieKeebler8 ай бұрын
Reminds my of my grandma's old house. Miss the house & miss her too.
@nandisaand52872 ай бұрын
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"
@anniee54875 ай бұрын
my hometown is known for having pollarded willows all along the beach and country roads. its really beautiful, im really fond of them
@grovermartin6874Ай бұрын
Such a stunning vase! It must be so rewarding to uncover such beauty!
@NarlepoaxIII3 ай бұрын
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.
@PoisonousEther18 күн бұрын
Watching you work on it makes my hands hurt oof! 👏🏾
@debbiesteffen44821 күн бұрын
My gosh that turned out gorgeous 😊
@karensimons92602 ай бұрын
That is splendid! Beautiful with oil. Love it!
@Just_Call_Me_Tim2 ай бұрын
I’d love to have a lamp base made from something like this. Imagine the warmth it would give off!
@laylamasterton78068 ай бұрын
That's probably the most beautiful piece of wood I've ever seen. Incredible work👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
@elisabethmolatore90712 ай бұрын
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
@Willmaysay12342 ай бұрын
Oh my that is beautiful! Colors got me drooling.
@IfonlyIwassmaller2 ай бұрын
Cool man! Thank you! Also, that looks gorgeous.
@tracyroake28152 ай бұрын
I think that has to be my favorite vase yet!
@susankinsman84452 ай бұрын
That is incredibly beautiful. ❤ A piece of art.❤❤❤