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It's a long term project, that starts by
cutting a substantial hole in the floors
and
roofs of a set of cars. These cars are then
placed on top of a line of oak (or similar)
tree
saplings
which will grow through their bodies,
emerging out of the gaping roofs.
Eventually the cars will
be "captured" by
the growing trees and raised above
the ground, their now flimsy, rusting
carcasses penetrated randomly through
the
windows by the trees' sprouting limbs.
Periodically, fragments of the cars will
break off and fall to the ground like
decayed leaves. With enough weathering
and time the cars will be reduced to mere
skeletons, their chassis draped like
necklaces at odd angles, amidst the
mature greenery of the Avenue of Dead
Cars up in The Trees.
A car in a tree.
http://www.flickr.c...iagrover/125319458/
No idea how it got there. Must make for spectacular nests. [jutta, Sep 26 2006]
Another car in a tree.
http://www.flickr.c...frywith1e/28352157/
"87". What a lovely tree! [jutta, Sep 26 2006]
Yet another car in a tree.
http://www.flickr.c...tsphotos/127330887/
Sure looks like it might have gotten off the ground via the tree growing. [jutta, Sep 26 2006]
Carhenge
http://www.carhenge.com/
Dead car sculpture [wagster, Oct 02 2009]
Dead Bicycle in a tree
http://ezwelty.phot...ge/I00002PIi..iAhy8
[xenzag, Apr 10 2013]
[link]
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I like it, but don't think it'd work as written, given the way a tree grows - telescoping upwards at the top rather than lifting from the bottom. The cars would not become suspended in the crowns; instead, the trees would just appear to grow out of the cars' roofs. |
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The car would be lifted eventually. |
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With careful planning and planting I
believe the cars will be taken up,
especially by the supporting action of
horizantal branches. |
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As a child I remember seeing an old car
taken above the ground by the
accidental growth of a tree, but maybe I
was just dreaming. |
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Maybe just have the car suspended on stilts while the tree grows up under and around it? |
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Clearly, this calls for a long-term experiment! |
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//but maybe I was just dreaming// |
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Well [xenzag] just keep on dreaming because you are doing a great job of it. + |
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That one's a gem Jutta - well found. |
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Umm, trees bottoms don't grow up. They stay in the same place, and things grow out of the top of the tree. Horizontal branches might lift the car a little... about the diameter of the branch in question, at most though. |
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Trees that grow as wide as an iron band wrapped around them will also soon die, as the band prevents the tree from sending it's nutrients down to the roots, which then die and stop sending water up. I suppose it's possible that the tree will split the car, rather than getting choked by it though. |
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You might instead try planting a patch of bamboo beneath the car. |
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Wasn't this something in Big Fish? Or was that just the one car and an avenue full of people who didn't wear shoes? |
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That bicycle is another gem 2 fries. I
love it. |
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plish (et all), I understand what you are
saying. Trees do grow in particular
ways, but I believe that they can be
induced, through deliberate action, to
take up the cars, and this is the essence
of the halfbakery for me. |
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I've never done that yet, as far as I can
remember. Think that mfd bothers me
? Flag it up and get on with it. I'm told
the correct format is: [marked-for-
deletion] - if you want it to be noticed. |
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I'm already seeding your petrol with
lilandias - now we'll see who's car ends
up in the trees ;-) |
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Every day a farmer goes into his field and
he picks up one of his new born calves and
sets it down again. He does this without
fail, as the seasons pass, until one day he
is able to lift a whole cow. Flann O'Brien. |
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/shirley the sapling/ I don't know about Shirley, but most saplings get longer at the tip and just wider at the base. Think about all the "No Traspessin" signs that you see nailed to trees as you drive through the countryside, do they get higher in the tree as they get older? Or what about hammocks, do the attachment rings move up the tree? |
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<Police Academy cats/cars mash-up> |
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"Excuse me officer, my Mini is stuck up that tree. Could you help me get it down?" |
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"Certainly Ma'am." BLAM! BLAM! BLAM! |
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See new link - sent to me by one of my pals today. Just had to be be posted. |
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//most saplings get longer at the tip and just wider at the
base// |
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Don't cut a hole in the roof.
Picture the tip of the sapling lower than the roof of the
car, pushing up on it. The tree will raise the car as it
grows, will it not? This would continue until the roof rusts
and the tree-tip pokes through, after which the height of
the car remains constant, while the tree continues to get
taller. (I assume horizontal branches will by then have
grown beneath the car to prevent it sliding all the way
back down to the ground.) |
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There are other ways to achieve this: |
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Some years ago, during a military excercise in Thetford Forest, a helicopter was flying low over trees with a Landrover suspended below. |
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Almost inevitably, the Landrover became entangled in a tree and had to be released from the helicopter. |
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The Landrover remained in the tree, a short distance from the road, for some weeks and became something of a local celebrity. |
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\\Landrover became a local celebrity\\ And they say the
Yanks are car-mad! |
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A tree will lift a car iff the actual growing tip is below the car, meaning the car is completely on top of it. (as [mouseposture] suggests)Unfortunately, given that this will limit growth, the tree will either die, or it will start growing vertically from branches that spread outside the footprint of the car. |
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Cabbage palms grow to mature girth before growing skyward. |
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Just came across pic in last link..... now I'm thinking of Avenue of Dead Bicycles In The Trees of course. |
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That was nice... Some kind person added a nasty fish bone
for no reason. ie they didn't have the courtesy to say why...... ha! order subsequently restored to universe - thanks :-) |
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I misread the title, thought it said "Avenue of dead
CATS in trees." |
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Which suggests that the municipality has taken
austerity to the extreme and laid off all firemen. |
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Probably more cost-effective and faster to lower junk
cars into trees from helicopters. Or, better yet,
zeppelins. |
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Certain vehicle/tree pairings could convey their own
messages:
Nissan/deciduous -- All LEAFed out.
Tesla/pine -- Forever green.
Volvo/oak -- Strong as an oak.
Yugo/redwood -- Achieving its highest use ever. |
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if we can get this darned global warming up to speed, and
flood the occasional island or coastal town, cars up in trees
(where they belong!!) might become so common as to be
unremarkable. |
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