number one new yournk hater


sedge
@sedge asked:

arborists love to be like “#this tree is dirt”, but what about when the dirt… is tree?

as far as dirt that is wood, i recently learned that there’s actually very little evidence in support of the hypothesis that Cambrian coal formed due to a lag period between the evolution of tree-behavior characterized by extremely dense lignin and cellulose and the evolution of organisms capable of digesting them, which was a very romantic idea for me so i’m goring through a bit of a grieving process right now


image captions

  1. this one’s a real puzzler. how did the tree get full of mineral soil above grade? just windblown clay depositing in a hollow over years and years?
  2. real standard, classic wood-dirt. hard to go wrong
  3. quite a bit of this wood had become dirt near the bottom, but the rest of the wood was good - solid 30” oak logs. anybody wants to make a table out of em and has machinery capable of scooting ~2300lbs through a narrow passage, they’re still there on the sidewalk cut through south of Devon & Caldwell toward Louise
  4. a neat mound of wood-dirt on top of a stump is pretty funny to look at, especially if you’re not the one who has to sharpen the chainsaw that went through it

You must log in to comment.

in reply to @toad's post: