What Is The Strangest Thing You Have Hit In A Tree?

After adding to the FILE THREAD it provoked me to ask, what is the strangest thing you have hit inside a tree. I'm sure I'm not the only one with a little bad luck. I have hit about anything you can imagine in the heart of a tree. Rocks, concrete, eyehooks, nails, bolts, chain, beer bottles, jars, tin, cans, shirts, yarn, cigarette packs,[ squirrel nest] horseshoes and hit a plow sheer about a year ago. Hell, I've hit my share of critter's too. Raccoons squirrels, birds an a big fat possum once. Never did hit a cat, but one got stuck in the chipper once. It has taken me several years to accumulate all of these tragic memories, LOL, as I am starting my 30th year in the tree care trade. My dad told me about an ol' logger buddy, that hit an old musket barrel in the heart of a solid tree. Thought it was a fence post, but thought the tree to be to old for a metal fence post [ this happened in the 50's ] curiosity got the best of him, so he split it open, sure enough.

My neighbors call me the TREE DUDE

Tree Eats Bike

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Good One,

Nice bike....makes you wonder if the rider is stuck somewhere in the trunk!!! Other than the regulars - cement, nails and barb-wire....I once hit an embedded horseshoe.

Hit in a tree

Gunrac, last year while cutting some huge water oak that went down in a storm I hit some metal--dead in the center of about a 48 inch oak. Decided to cut it out & see what it was---Florida License Tag from 1946 with decal still on it from Orange County. Must have been nailed to a tree whenever?--My guess is around 1950's because it was in the center area...& guessing about 3/4 inch of growth per year.....

It wasn't totally engulfed, but I cut a big willow to get to the 32 Ford that it had grown up through.

horse shoes

Rebar, railroad spike...

Electric fence insulator.

Environmentalist.

That what happened to my bike! hehe.

Parts from an old car or truck that may have hit it real hard many many years earlier.

Cut through a muzzle loader round once in a 4 foot diameter doug fir in southern Arizona. the tree was located about 9000 foot in elevation on the top of Graham peak. the round was just shy of center. It had been there a long time.

Sandstone, a metal bar, and of course wire.

Got myself a black snake while cutting a stub out of a Hard Maple. I cut the stub off and he popped his head out of the cavity. I think he was as nervous as I was. Needless to say, my chainsaw won that battle. A bloody mess though.

Found a leg hold trap, and part of the drag chain in a 24" Ponderosa pine once. Took more time to get it out than it was worth, kinda cool though.

I hate hitting critters, you think its water from the spar and after you finish the cut..yuck tie on a clean shirt please

Rocks, wire, nails, fence posts, toy robot, screwdriver,1.25 inch axle stubs, pipe, railroad spikes, railroad rail,, and my favorite-a fuel pump.

recently hit a drill bit,found a few steel pickets in stumps,not good.

objects in stump

many years ago my father was removing a very large oak the center had a hollow and there was a confedrate sword in the tree.

Fence post, wire, nails, rocks, and an all lead bullet.