what causes trees to split? Do they just decide at 5 feet to say fuck it Imma head out?

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what causes trees to split? Do they just decide at 5 feet to say fuck it Imma head out?

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Heres another interesting tidbit, trees can be made to split so you can harvest straight staves from them with a practice called pollarding: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pollarding

Common practice in the middle ages I believe.

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