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Submitted by: KC I saw this is Farmington Conn via Submit a Kludge!
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Said to be for squirrels, it’s designed for condors.
it’s either a tree on life support… literally, or a low cell tower with a very clever disguise.
Life support was my thought, too. Pull the plug! Let it go! Can’t you see it’s trying to give up?!
On a serious note, this tree is probably a victim of a storm or freezing rain.
This isn’t a kluge at all; it is obviously an attempt to keep the tree from cracking and falling apart under it’s own weight People cable up branches all the time to keep them from falling; at Sharp Labs of America, they tied up the walnut tree outside the front entrance to keep a branch from falling and damaging the entrance (after a few years they gave up and just cut the tree down, which is probably what they should have done with this tree too.)
Tonight on “Desperate Landscaping…”
urban dreamcatcher?
Do the strings light up at night? Maybe it’s for Christmas.
Lazy start of a spider’s web?
…I really want to see that spider!
(probably has the size of a turtle)
Tightrope walker version of Escher’s Relativity
Zero gravity clotheslines.
There’s a childs nightmare in there somewhere!
Try to eat my dog now you tree!
Ok this is funny…… but seriously! WTF is it?!?
Looks like cables have been installed to reinforce the tree and prevent those largely horizontal limbs from breaking off and/or splitting the trunk. I had to have something like this done once to a tree in my yard, though there weren’t as many cables (not as many branches).
They’re trying to keep the limbs up with wire. I’ve seen this before, but never more than 1 wire per tree.
My husband has used bungie cords to help support branches on an over active peach tree. It works!
You see this a lot with live oak trees in the south. Big limbs, often the size of tree trunks themselves, grow out horizontally. Sometimes they need some help. Here are some live oaks (without guy wires): http://tinyurl.com/ycrtpt7
Charlie Brown returned to face his old nemesis, the kite eating tree, only to see it a shell of its former self.
Win!
Went to get more thread. BRB.
Spider.
Hey, that’s my old clubhouse!
Squirrel training center is rite. This fits in with what Tim Bedore has been warning us about for some time now. http://www.vaguebuttrue.com/
Upside down spider caught in it’s own web.
It’s… a cable tree! Gets awesome reception.
NIck, I can’t see the attachment points very well, but given the fresh marks of sawed off limbs, I’d guess that this was actually the work of a professional tree surgeon. They use cables like that to stabilize trees with weak branches – though this does seem pretty dramatic, so I’ll guess that this tree must be very well loved or of historical interest.
Obviously a tree of historical interest. For Tree Cabling Historians.
It’s Spiderman’s vacation home.
Tip: It’s more diabolical if you use toilet paper instead of string.
I live near there and drive by that tree often. It is well loved, and is kind of a landmark.
Long may it flourish.
It looks like a fishing trophy. Some guy got his line tangled on this tree, which was floating in the water. He couldn’t get his line untangled, so he just reeled it in, cut the line, and put it on display in his front yard.
Tensegrity tree!
A Fullerite! Or should I call you a Fullerene?
It’s like Weekend at Bernies….only Bernie is a tree.
I invented the intreenet!
Win!!!
Welcome to Silent Hill.
No p..sing! We have the place wired!
The trees playing cats cradle. I can see the tea cup.
Huh. I never knew that the Whomping Willow had a BDSM phase.
The Whomping Willow is straight jacketed for it’s own safety.
The squirrels express their appreciation for saving their tree and installing a fine light rail system to all of the popular limbs.
It’s fairly common. At Masters in Augusta, GA, they have a large oak tree by the clubhouse cabled like that. It’s older than the course itself and is quite striking to look at. Without the cables supporting it, it likely would fall apart.
Courtesy of your local friendly Spiderman
Even trees can play cats cradle better than I can….
This is where Buck from Ice Age 3 trained for years to beat the T-Rex of the movie o.o
Looks like the orks captured an ent
I would not want to be near that tree during a lightning storm. It would make a heck of an incandescent flash.
not sure but it looks like the tree got confused and grew upside down.
I know exactly where this tree is, many times I have stood at the ATM nearby and stared at it in awe.
Is a tree REALLY this important to bother with?? Just cut it down and put in a new HEALTHY tree!
This tree was once near a popular fishing spot, the river has since dried up and been paved over.
Really? The Farmington river has dried up? That’s news to me. It’s about a quarter mile away (maybe less) from the river, and the river hasn’t been any closer to the tree since 1955 (a famous flood).
This isn’t a kludge! That’s called cable support. I haven’t seen it this extreme before, but it is common to use wire cabling to support tree branches.
First came the zombies… Then the lightbulbs… Now the final wave has arrived. The squirrels have arrived to finish what’s left. Well they’re in for a nasty surprise. Because I know their weakness. I know where they keep their NUTS. MWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!
Training ground for Zoro Jr.