Came across a youtube and the headline drew me in, something about something bizarre found in a tree. I watched the whole dang thing, it was in a foreign (to the USA) country, they spoke another language. Hit some metal in a large ash tree they were milling. The rest of the video was that the men doing this, apparently, had to know what this metal thing they hit was, and so, they chainsawed and axed (with a Fiskars!) and chopped until they got to the piece. And never did show a closeup of the piece. So, the video was uneventful. But, all was not lost, as I read some comments like I always do. Didn't get any satisfaction about the metal in the tree, but somebody posted this... I found it humorous about the 'good ol' days.' "During the late fifties, my family would regularly visit with my grandparents on Sunday afternoons. They lived in an old house on a big lot with lots of trees. There was an old tree out back that had a softball size hole in the truck, up about 12 feet. While the old folks sat on the big porch out front, talking about the "good old days", us kids would entertain ourselves "shooting baskets" by tossing the ample supply of rocks into that gaping hole. We did this well into the 60's. Many times I would be alone. The adults never saw us do it. It was fun hearing the rock as it tumbled down the long hollow trunk of the tree. Never thought anything about it until the Saturday my grandfather paid a man to cut down the old tree. This was a very big tree. The man made his initial cut to remove a large wedge. He got partway in, and his saw stopped. He had a heck of a time getting that tree down. It was filled solid with rock, clear down to the ground. Grandfather was swearing. The tree guy was swearing. My face was red as a beet. I confessed to my grandmother what we had done. She laughed and said, " Let's just keep it our little secret." She never told him. When they finally got the tree felled, it was unbelievable the amount of rocks that were in it. I can still hear gramps saying, "Who the hell would do such a thing?"
