What's the weirdest stuff you've found in trees?

JTSpear · Jan 11, 2016

I looked out my back window this morning and saw something orange in a tree... Took out the binoculars and thought it looked like a clementine, so of course I had to be sure. knocked it out with my throw line and sure enough it was a clementine. It was about 20' up a poplar against the trunk and a tiny dead branch. All I can figure is a squirrel put it there... Not the weirdest thing I've seen but it was strange.

Sgriff · Jan 11, 2016

I found a frikken crab in a palm tree,yea a fggn crab! Size of your hand,not even close to the beach.was kinda moist still lol, i put it under my co workers seat of his truck hahahaaa!was bout 35' up.

Sgriff · Jan 11, 2016

His truck was stankin!!

JTSpear · Jan 11, 2016

After hurricane Irene I remember seeing a big propane tank in a tree and a fridge!

easyphloem · Jan 11, 2016

Copper tubes inside of an old Elm we cut down. I think they were "drain tubes" installed near a branch union from an Arborist from long ago.

SZ

Sgriff · Jan 11, 2016

That is weird^

JTSpear said:
After hurricane Irene I remember seeing a big propane tank in a tree and a fridge!

Wtf?!? Dzamn!! Did you cut em out?

Jake_W · Jan 12, 2016

A sword. Oh, and a blow up doll in the top of a fifty foot ash tree.

Treetopflyer · Jan 12, 2016

easyphloem said:
Copper tubes inside of an old Elm we cut down. I think they were "drain tubes" installed near a branch union from an Arborist from long ago.

SZ

My pop tells stories of doing that on elms with slime flux at Lakehurst navel base back in the late fifties. He said if they drilled into the right spot with all the pressure built up it would sound like a gun going off.

easyphloem · Jan 12, 2016

Treetopflyer said:
My pop tells stories of doing that on elms with slime flux at Lakehurst navel base back in the late fifties. He said if they drilled into the right spot with all the pressure built up it would sound like a gun going off.

Whoa.

SZ

Treetopflyer · Jan 12, 2016

easyphloem said:
Whoa.

SZ

Lol.. Yeah I guess it's one of the those stories.. Probably a .22 pistol not a high powered rifle or some shit

monkeylove · Jan 12, 2016

After some floods here I found a canoe about 25ft in the canopy. Had a big hole in the bottom, most have been a wild ride before then.

CaPowell · Jan 12, 2016

JTSpear said:
I looked out my back window this morning and saw something orange in a tree... Took out the binoculars and thought it looked like a clementine, so of course I had to be sure. knocked it out with my throw line and sure enough it was a clementine. It was about 20' up a poplar against the trunk and a tiny dead branch. All I can figure is a squirrel put it there... Not the weirdest thing I've seen but it was strange.

I think the real focus of this thread should be JTspear's throw line skills.

JeffGu · Jan 12, 2016

Yeah... if he had said that poplar tree was growing clementines, oranges and figs I would have given him the benefit of the doubt... but that part where he knocked a clementine out of the tree with his throwline... :endesacuerdo:

macswan · Jan 12, 2016

Treetopflyer said:
My pop tells stories of doing that on elms with slime flux at Lakehurst navel base back in the late fifties. He said if they drilled into the right spot with all the pressure built up it would sound like a gun going off.

My coworker drilled into an elm to install a cable, and the inner cavity of the hollow trunk let off a massive amount of pressure. Like he slashed a tire. I thought the damn thing was gonna deflate.

Stihlmadd · Jan 12, 2016

Jake_W said:
a blow up doll in the top of a fifty foot ash tree.

inflated with helium ?

easyphloem · Jan 12, 2016

Jake_W said:
A sword. Oh, and a blow up doll in the top of a fifty foot ash tree.

Was it one of "those" blow up dolls?

SZ

JeffGu · Jan 12, 2016

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She's my polyethylene, inflatable pal
She never has a headache and she always smiles
Guaranteed puncture proof for 80,000 miles

Maximalist · Jan 12, 2016

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Oak Savanna · Jan 12, 2016

Golf balls inside a big ole black willow at a golf course. Not that rare I guess but they were inside the trunk at about 20' up. And a plastic 5 gallon bucket inside a big hollow red oak about 15-20' up.