Things you've found in wood

[kodiakyardboy]

Had to revive this old thread. Anything new this year? Just bullets and rocks for me.

 

[Dale]

Don't cut any trees in Gettysburg.

 

[Kingsley]

Found 3 1/2 squirels on Saturday. Man does that make the bar stink!

 

[knockbill]

i was bucking a walnut log, and when i stood it on end to split it, two dazed mice came out, i must have woke them up,,,,

 

[Curlycherry1]

My friend in northern MN has a lawn mower about 6' up in a tree. It grew where the engine used to be and lifted it off the ground eventually. There also is a Model A Ford near St. Paul where a tree grew through the car. It is in the city and has been a landmark near my Grandmothers house as long as I can remember. My dad said he remembers it from when he was a kid. Eventually it will lift off the ground. I wish I had taken pictures before I moved.

Sorry to be a reality check here but trees grow from the tips of their branches only,the terminal buds as they are called. The trunks do not get any taller, only bigger in diameter. So if you sink a nail in a tree 4' above the ground, it will stay 4' above the ground forever. That lawnmower was hung on the branch and the tree grew around it. That model A Ford will always be on the ground, the tree is never going to lift it. It is a myth that a tree trunk grows taller. The inside of a tree under the bark is all dead wood, it can't grow. Cut out the center of a tree and it will live as evidenced by anyone that has seen a hollow tree, girdle a tree and it will die.

 

[yooper]

Sorry to be a reality check here but trees grow from the tips of their branches only,the terminal buds as they are called. The trunks do not get any taller, only bigger in diameter. So if you sink a nail in a tree 4' above the ground, it will stay 4' above the ground forever. That lawnmower was hung on the branch and the tree grew around it. That model A Ford will always be on the ground, the tree is never going to lift it. It is a myth that a tree trunk grows taller. The inside of a tree under the bark is all dead wood, it can't grow. Cut out the center of a tree and it will live as evidenced by anyone that has seen a hollow tree, girdle a tree and it will die.

very true, I cut Maple trees all the time with old metal taps in them from late 1800s early 1900s. they are all at a normal height for a taped tree. I have never found one way up in a tree.

A few years ago doing R.O.W. work I hung an old tricycle in a tree on the tranny line way out in the woods. Its about 50 feet in the air☺

 

[Curlycherry1]

Link on how a tree grows:

http://www.cnr.vt.edu/dendro/forsite/howdoes.htm

I cut some trees that had grown around some telephone guide wires once and the wires were running horizontally. If the tree had grown taller then the wires would have been pushed up and they were not. I left the hunk of wood hanging on the guide wires and it was there for over 10 years before they changed the wires.

I also cut a fence row once of 4-5' maples and the barbed wire in them went right smack through the center of the trees and the highest wire was 4' above the ground. Those were 200+ year old trees.