Doing Figure Eights

Oddities in the garden are not the only things that look strange here on the farm.

These logs were brought down off the hill where we are cleaning up storm damage from last years winter and had come across a figure 8 Douglas Fir.

The tree on the left shows the base of the tree at the bottom of the picture. Up the tree about 30 feet the tree sustained an injury and began forming two tops.

10 feet above where the two tops started, the twins melded back together and bark formed over the spot where the tops twisted around each other for a short foot or two then separated again into two tops.

Another 10 feet up the twins once again wrapped around each other and bonded together as they twisted once again before breaking into two distinct tops once again.

Ring count showed the tree to be between 50 to 60 years old. There was good wood found in this tree, one 26 foot long log was harvested from this oddball from the base to almost the first split.

The rest became firewood in an effort to keep the landing as clean as possible.