Thursday, June 11, 2009

Bending the trunk of a Pinus sylvestris

This is one of my collected Pinus sylvestris.
This spring we had a visit from Peter Warren, he led a workshop in Oslo in May. I brought this pine and wanted to bend the trunk dramaticly. Peter started by drilling a hole in the trunk in the point where the trunk was to be bent and then we fastend a metal rod to the trunk for leverage during the bending. We used a clamp for the bending. It was surprisingly easy to bend the trunk. It was bent more than 90 degrees in one point and a little less in another point.



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1 comments:

Nitsuj said...

Hey i collected a bougainvillea that Look's extremely like your''Huge Willow cutting'' i will eventually take pics maybe to show you guys...thanks for all the posts PLEASE keep updating...if you guys go work on the (ramification and or positions of branches please take pic and post) that's the area i have to improve still....