Explain this pic?

[phil1960]

Talking about trees, no idea how old this oak is but it was huge

Mrs P is only 5ft 1"    Just for scale 

 
And that's with a few branches lopped off, it is in the village of Llangenny near Abergavenny

[Gregmuzz]

WOW now thats what i call a tree

[phil1960]

WOW not thats what i call a tree

If I could have fitted it all in there's branches going off everywhere, it really was massive 

[yorksgal]

That is one old tree

[treehugger]

That is one old tree

Not as old as Ruth.........................

[phil1960]

Not as old as Ruth.........................

 

[Strider]

Not as old as Ruth.........................

Ooh, I wooden stand for that

[baggypants]

I think that the clue might be in the the fence line behind, if they were part of a hedge many years ago, a hedge layer may well have pleached them. Then being Beach trees they tried to behave like proper trees, when they were left alone, to get on with what trees do best, grow upwards.

This is what I would think aswell... Where im staying at the moment I can see a few examples of this and one odd one where some one has cut a pole from a fresh branch to support a fence. They have forced it between a tree and the fencing it has been absobed by both the tree and the fence post and is incredible ....