What did you find inside?

Years ago when the kids were young, we cut a large Maple tree down that was kinda close to the barn and had died. When it landed a family of flying squirrels came running out in different directions and ran up trees and jumped out and would glide as far as they could and go up another tree and do it again. The kids and their cousins chased those squirrels for an hour around the woods. We never knew they were in there because the flying ones usually only come out at night. We see fox squirrel, gray squirrel, and red squirrel all the time but just never get to see the flying squirrels. It was pretty cool to see and the "kids" still talk about that today... Sorry to have wrecked their home, but...

 

Not sure if this counts. It wasn't cut that way, intentionally.

 

No doubt the remains of Treebeard from the Hobbit.

 

Although not man-made, I thought the three rocks embedded in the white oak were pretty cool.

 

Iv cut alot of metal doing takedowns on the side of the rd, barb wire alot. The best takedown was a giant coon that stuck it out the entire takedown then her and her babies jumped out as the spar was in mid air halfway to the ground. They all made it!!

 

Ah yes, tree forts. Fun for kids but not for hoarders!

 

Ya know that it's illegal to cause worry to a squirrel in Lacrosse wi.
Just something that you find out when your kid went to UW Lacrosse.

 

I've hit a lot of stuff but the most aggravating to me is concrete. Seems to have been a popular fix for split trunks around here.

 

Actually there is a lot of truth to your statement if you know anything about UW Lacrosse. (not liberal, more like Communist fringe)

 

I know that I never saw so many squirrels in one place before. And they aren't as skittish as you normally see.

 

I quit doing commercial tree work 15 years ago but I found many different chain dulling items in trees the biggest was a 6 cylinder engine crankshaft in a big maple next to a barn that put a hurting on that chain we cut the tree 8 foot up from bottom to finally get it down and ripped the stump to pieces with a excavator and found it Many land clearing jobs were hedgerows on old farms found many things that trees grew around axles,plow shares ,shovels rakes,anything you could imagine around old farms JB

 

We have a compost pile that gets food scraps, including bones. Had to dog sit one day and the dog kept pulling bones out of the compost pile. Not wanting to deal with a dog choking or impailing the roof of his mouth, I took them away and placed them in the crotch of an ash tree nearby. Chicken wing bones, baby back pork ribs, etc. wonder what those will look like haha

 

I tried to start this thread a week or two ago, because I found a big azz nail in a nice ash split that I didn’t notice when I cut and split it. I erased the thread though because my crappy mountain internet was fighting with me

I once found a primitive looking horseshoe deep inside a HUGE Douglass fir tree. It was years ago, before camera phones. The tree was in the middle of the Pike national forrest. I always thought it probably had a cool story. It was probably placed there by a Native American or travelers headed west a couple hundred years ago.

 

When I was in High School in Georgia and in the Archaeology Club, we would occasionally find bones in trees where they had grown up through Indian mounds or perhaps the bones had been placed in crotches and the tree grew around!

 

Guide wire mount in a shagbark hickory. Saw it luckily and didnt saw it!

 

Once when I was deer hunting I found a dead mouse at about eye level wedged into the crotch of a beech sapling. I figured it had to have been dropped by an owl as there were no tall trees it could have fallen from and the sapling wouldn't have taken the weight of a weasel.

 

I needed some smaller splits so I was re-splitting some red oak pieces. One was streaked blue so I knew there was some steel in it somewhere but, luckily, I didn't find it when I originally dropped & bucked the trunk.

How I first saw it:



Piece of steel with wire wrapped around it by the glove, a point of steel at the opposite side.

After burning the split:



Looks like a hook from the pulley on an old clothes line. It was completely buried in the wood, about 2" below the pulp-wood layer. It has probably been there since the '50s or earlier (Ya know, before clothes dryers).

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