Bizarre Finds Aloft

[Guy Meilleur]

Any bizarre stories about defects found while aloft that you would have ever noticed from the ground?"

There were 2 small cavities at old branch scars in a big white oak. Big hollow inside connected them. folks understood it was a coon nest when I showed them a pic of the coons' poop pile on top of a nearby branch.

 

[xander9727]

I found a cavity in a black locust today with squirrel in it. He wouldn't shut up or leave so I slapped him with the Zubat. That learned him.

Sorry RJS if he was a relative I hope you're in the will.

 

[dbeck]

funny how this has started out relating to tree critters...I once had a whole family of coons w/o momma around. Another time sawed througha red oak stem(24") and just happened to cut approx 6" above a squirrel nest. Momma came flying at my face...I managed to dodge her on her 40' flight to the ground. Last yr. we found a carcass of a rabbit 25' aloft...must have been a owl or hawk or something.

 

[MasterBlaster]

What, you don't have tree-climbing rabbits up north?

 

[kf_tree]

guy

about a year ago i was pruning a big elm in brooklyn. there was 2 of us in the tree, there was actually room for 4 climbers. in the big lower crotchs there were piles of poop, on the big leads there were poop every where there was poop. a while ago a big lead was removed and thats where the big old racoon was living.

we kept looking over to make sure he didn't decide to wander out.

 

[xander9727]

Ya know how I handle raccoons!:Monkey:

 

[kf_tree]

a while back i was running ropes when the climber yelled " watch your head" and down came a bicycle. it got thrown into the tree from an apartment building.

i was once in a tree by an apartment buildind where the tree had about 50 blow darts in it. then i started thinking......i hope the guys out of darts.

i also lowered a bicycle from a tree once.


the greasy tree over the restaurant exhaust vents did wonders for my ropes.


i'll have to think about it some.............i'm sure there's alot more...........

 

[xander9727]

I once found 4 horseshoes between two codominant leaders. They weren't visible until after the tree was cut up.

 

[treegeek]

i found a bike in a tree once too - what is the deal with that?! it was maybe 50 ft up a big doug fir in the middle of a yard, ie someone climbed the tree with the bike at some point. i thought that was weird.

my favorite free-climb tree, a giant sequoia at volunteer park (not the comp tree) lost its lead maybe 10 yrs ago and put up 3 new leaders which now make a nice place to sit and watch the sunset from 100 ft or so - where the old top died out there was a hollow for a while where i found a marble one time. guess i'm not the only one who climbs that old tree.
k.

 

[arboromega]

good post guy.
i was marking park boundry lines years ago when i worked for the state of wv parks. in the middle of nowhere i found a crankshaft sticking halfway out of a trunk. the other half was in the tree.
i also found a geiser in the top of a silver maple...was drilling into it to run a cable and struck water, about a gallon poured onto to me in mid winter, no visible cavity on the leader. nice rotten stink.

 

[MasterBlaster]

As I was gearing up/eyeballing the tree I was about to climb, I noticed a squirrel eyeballing me back. He was about 40 feet up in a hollow, with his head and front part of his body looking down at me.
I was curious why he didn't haul arse as I ascended towards him.

Sure enough, as I got to him, he was dead. I poked at him with my saw, and he remained motionless. I said "SHEET!"
He was fresh, not decomposed at all. It was like he died of old age, I couldn't believe it. I yelled at the groundies, and chunked him down.

They were agog, and agape.

 

[John Stewart]

I kind of saw the same thing one time but it was his tail and back legs stickin out the hole!
I pulled on his tail but nothin stone dead.
I guess the little fellow gorged himself and got stuck going home.
Sad!
Later
John

 

[kf_tree]

a while back when i was ski patroling in vt there was a big boulder lodged in a high crotch of a birch tree. it got placed there when they were blasting the ski trail.

 

[BlackSmith]

weird...

 

[MasterBlaster]

Methinks a 'lil photoshop wuz involved in that one!

 

[Newfie]

Nope MB, those goats are for real, Greece I think,maybe Turkey. They are eating some sort of fruit or dates. I saw it TV but the details escape me.

 

[MasterBlaster]

Wow!

 

[Newfie]

Whatever it is they are eating has seeds in it. The seeds won't germinate unless they have been goat processed!

 

[Stumper]

Might be a Carob-but I don't think that goat processing/scarification is essential.

 

[Dan F]

Some of you may recall the thread that Menchofer started quite a while back....

There's a state park here in Indiana that has rocks *in* the trees. Big rocks. The kicker is no one know how they got there.

I don't think I've ever found anything aloft, but I've had two raccoons come running out of a red oak that I flopped in the woods for firewood... Same tree that I'd shot a 'coon out of a couple of years before.


Dan