Oddest thing ever found aloft?

[TreeSmithAK]

Guessing I'm not alone in the fact on more than one occasion over the years I've ascended a residential tree & stumbled across something not natural, well out of place & oddly surreal. Just wondering if others have had these same discoveries monkeying around in a tree?

Mine was at the 3/4 height point of an abnormally large and sprawling 100'+ codominant cedar... the remnants of a wicked old barely even metal at that point bicycle frame that was nearly entirely included by the union of the two stems... later in the climb (pruning) it became a major pain in my a$$ as my running end kept getting snagged on it! It was an old farm tree on land that had been subdivided into smaller parcels but the work was being done for the original family still living in the old house.. the older man of the family said he had heard about it being up there but never saw it.. until I pruned the tree out creating a visual path up the trunk For years after I thought about that poor bike. Was it lonely? Did it feel abandoned by its peddlar for all those years? Is it beyond restoration at this point? Even worse thoughts though.... did its owner ever wake up one day & ask themselves "now where did I go & leave that bike of mine?"

A few other noteworthy "treasures"
-Panties (true story)
-Racoon momma & spawn (we didn't like each other much)
-Yellow jacket colony in a rotten cedar stem (again, not too happy with each other)

 

[TreeSmithAK]

More notably for me was not in a tree, but under it... a gigantic black walnut blow down & it's massive uprooted root system next to the Willamette river just outside of Portland Oregon... I bid the job, a few weeks passed before I got the call to do the cleanup work & of course Oregon rains had been flooding the crater the entire time, washing & exposing the roots & everything that lived beneath them... . get to the job & do a walk around before getting to work and out of place was a really old looking glass medicine vial sitting half buried in the hole... I scamper in, grab it, and start noticing there isn't one old glass bottle, but dozens of them as well as other little bits of signs of human life! Turns out likely in the late 1800's it was a trash pit for the old property.. the family had zero interest in any of the little treasures so not only did I get the job, made bank on selling the timber to a hardwood mill, but had an instant collection of really cool old glass bottles

 

[chiselbit]

I guess this isn’t very odd but I found it to be at least interesting. Old pair of caulked boots “corks” hanging in a tree out in the forest. Laces were engulfed in the limbs.

 

[JD3000]

Had a 24oz can of Yuengling fall out of a tree and graze my head this summer.

 

[chiselbit]

That could have hurt. Several years ago I was working at a property and the guy showed me a rock up in a blue oak about 20’. It was bigger than a basketball, far too big to have been placed there by hand. His theory was it happened during blasting for road construction before the houses were built. It had been there over 20 years. I wanted to take it out because of its risk factor but he wanted to keep it as a conversation piece. Went back a couple years later and it had fallen. Luckily not on anyone.

 

[theatertech87]

I've found a drywall keyhole saw in the middle of an arb hedge, trunk of the arb was right in the middle of the handle probably 10 feet off the ground. All I can think of is a previous homeowner was ambitious about trimming them and either left it behind, or dropped it.

I've also worked next door to a property with traffic cones all over the tops of trees; we're talking 50 feet plus in the air scattered throughout the yard. Talking to the homeowner, an arborist lived there previously and left them as a calling card.

 

[Deadwood]

A ground guy...

 

[samsquatch]

Talking to the homeowner, an arborist lived there previously and left them as a calling card.

This is good.. you know some people leave "easter eggs" behind as they work, why should Arborculture be any different?

 

[Fivepoints]

I found a 9 cubic yard dumpster in a tree once. It was placed there by a tornado.

 

[samsquatch]

I found a 9 cubic yard dumpster in a tree once. It was placed there by a tornado.

Ha. How does one fix that? "No way I'm not going up there with that thing" "Use the crane you'll be fine" "Like hell!"

 

[evo]

@timber There is another thread about his somewhere, maybe you can find it...

For me, a purple dildo.. about 10-15' up in a union on a bigleaf maple. Over a RV trailer...

 

[TreeSmithAK]

@timber There is another thread about his somewhere, maybe you can find it...

For me, a purple dildo.. about 10-15' up in a union on a bigleaf maple. Over a RV trailer...

Without going too graphic.. got me a dildo story myself... birch cleanout in vancouver washington, I was maybe 25? Right about second story window height dangling there was I with my pole saw working away, 15 yards away there she was, going to town on herself in bed, blinds wide open... it was the homeowner.... I've never determined if on purpose or accident the blinds weren't drawn lolol

 

[JD3000]

@timber There is another thread about his somewhere, maybe you can find it...

For me, a purple dildo.. about 10-15' up in a union on a bigleaf maple. Over a RV trailer...

Made yer day homie.

 

[TrunkMonk]

I kicked a Dildo out of a Melaluca to the groundcrew, twas at a sharehouse.
The boys picked it up with a leaf and stuck it to the truck just above the windscreen, the truck driver was unawares.

We laughed.
Have yet to grow up.

 

[theatertech87]

I kicked a Dildo out of a Melaluca to the groundcrew, twas at a sharehouse.
The boys picked it up with a leaf and stuck it to the truck just above the windscreen, the truck driver was unawares.

We laughed.
Have yet to grow up.

we did the same thing with one we found on the ground we stuck it in the grillf one of our co-workers trucks. And they didn't notice for 2 weeks

 

[JD3000]