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

JontreeHI · Feb 27, 2016

I bid a job the other day, a big western red cedar wrapped in and grown in w razor wire. My price reflected having to remove that for sure.
I pruned an 80' topped fir a couple months back rigged with a giant ham radio antennae sticking out the top

classictruckman · Feb 28, 2016

Somebody really didn't want that cedar removed at somepoint

JasonRoland · Mar 3, 2016

I spotted teddy up in this oak on the way to work the other morning, stopped to snap a pic this am. Was a little weirder than I first thought, not sure what it means. Not sure how teddy got up there or what he's up to....

UpstateGrinder · Mar 4, 2016

My dad and neighbor went down the road, to help another neighbor take out an old tree. No big deal, they think it will be a 10 minute job. Immediately my dad's chain gets dull. They use another saw, that isn't cutting worth a damn. It turns out there was an old fishing spear in the middle of a tree. Somebody threw the spear in the middle of the tree, and the tree grew around it. As a kid it used to be legal to spear salmon and suckers out of our creek, I never thought 30 years later, a spear would take out two chainsaws.

LaterGator · Mar 4, 2016

Shopping bag with drug paraphenalia! High school kids if I had to guess

matamorph · Mar 31, 2016

Finally found 'peace-of-mind!'

...very unexpected.

Tyler Durden · Apr 1, 2016

Jason, was that bear in the burn scar? If so how high up was he?

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AAA TREE · May 29, 2016

Petrified squirrel, customer said it had been there a few years, on a low limb

macswan · May 29, 2016

Tree-Taylor · May 29, 2016

AAA TREE said:
Petrified squirrel, customer said it had been there a few years, on a low limb

That's a greasy find dude.

LimbLoppa · May 29, 2016

I found a boat propeller in a hackberry tree. I guess someone placed it between the co-dom stems when it was small. In rock-paper-scissors -boat prop beats chain every time.

JeffGu · May 29, 2016

AAA TREE said:
...customer said it had been there a few years...

Well, you certainly don't want to remove a tasty conversation piece like that!
"You paid $1.6 million for that new house, Harry? Well, I bet it doesn't have one of these!"
"Damn, you're right, Bill... it doesn't! Dude, I am soooooo jealous!"

livefreeordie · May 29, 2016

I found this rat trap in an apple tree early this spring that was a first for me

LimbLoppa · May 29, 2016

I once topped a cedar tree and sitting in a well-made nest was a black and orange Gila monster. It was about 10" long and wild looking- it didn't even budge-just stared at me. I thought about catching it, but the fact that it didn't run like a normal lizard made me think twice. I took a pic with my phone and went to the county extension agent to see if he could identify it. Come to find out it was the only venomous lizard native to the US, but not very common in the Southeast (usually Arizona)-maybe an escaped pet? I attached a picture that looks like the one that stared me down.

JeffGu · May 29, 2016

Yeah, they're big time egg eaters.. which is why he would be in the tree/nest... but I had no idea there were any that far east! I didn't think Georgia was dry enough for those bastards!

LimbLoppa · May 30, 2016

JeffGu said:
Yeah, they're big time egg eaters.. which is why he would be in the tree/nest... but I had no idea there were any that far east! I didn't think Georgia was dry enough for those bastards!

Threw me for a loop too! I sooo wanted to take it home, but the last time I encroached on a reptile's personal space at work I felt a bit less like a man.

LimbLoppa · May 30, 2016

A snake was climbing a tree after my groundie spooked him cutting brush. I should've left the fucker alone, but nooooo I had to give chase. When he finally decided he had enough, he came at me. I (being the genius I am) thought to myself " BITCH I GOT A SAW !!" I Proceeded to prune that snake and tapped him on his neck with the chain (bottom front quarter of the bar tip) That snake shot at me at like a thousand miles an hour-hit me right in the neck! OMG shit got real-really quick! Dude, squeals came out of me that haven't been heard since deliverance! Took me a while to live that one down. Lesson learned.....don't mess with animals that aren't messing with me-and if I do.....flip the chainsaw over before I cut em.

evo · May 30, 2016

LimbLoppa said:
I once topped a cedar tree and sitting in a well-made nest was a black and orange Gila monster. It was about 10" long and wild looking- it didn't even budge-just stared at me. I thought about catching it, but the fact that it didn't run like a normal lizard made me think twice. I took a pic with my phone and went to the county extension agent to see if he could identify it. Come to find out it was the only venomous lizard native to the US, but not very common in the Southeast (usually Arizona)-maybe an escaped pet? I attached a picture that looks like the one that stared me down.View attachment 37975 View attachment 37975

They are protected in the wild, but do fetch a hefty 2-3K each if they are proven captive bred with legit paper work.. They also carry a hefty fine if wild caught. I once heard of a bust of 15+ with radio transmitters in them (USDA study animals) in Eugene Or... Their venom isn't that bad for a full grown healthy man, it would suck for sure, but I'd take a bite from them over stepping in a bald faced hornet nest.

LimbLoppa · May 30, 2016

evo said:
They are protected in the wild, but do fetch a hefty 2-3K each if they are proven captive bred with legit paper work.. They also carry a hefty fine if wild caught. I once heard of a bust of 15+ with radio transmitters in them (USDA study animals) in Eugene Or... Their venom isn't that bad for a full grown healthy man, it would suck for sure, but I'd take a bite from them over stepping in a bald faced hornet nest.

Yes, Hornets suck! I've had my fair share of run ins with them too-not very friendly and quite persistent.