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    Quote Originally Posted by Hickery View Post
    There's a bicycle grown into a tree somewhere. Bought any campsite I pass through,I scan for line and rope,take it down. Nails.......dadgumit!
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    ^^ LOL

    When out Orienteering, there are some city parks that used to be farms. there are always trees around with old barb wire embedded in the bark. Some of those trees were probably saplings on the property corner in the 1930's....now they are 50 feet tall and a trunk of a foot or more....with barb wire embedded in it
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    there's a tree on my place with a grease gun grown into it. been there all my life [i'm 53]. its an old crepe tree. i'll snag a pic when i'm home...

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    The nails are also why they keep metal detectors handy when logging. You don't want to run a nail into your saw/axe/mill/chainsaw.

    In established camps I always look around for the requisite nail some jerk has left for me to hang my poles on. It doesn't take long to find and since I can't remove it, I mine as well use it. All the while I'm trying to imagine hauling a bunch of nails and a hammer with me. Or worse, ruining the poll of an axe by using it to hammer nails.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Scarecrow View Post
    Here's one for ya from this past February. I spotted this at a bed & breakfast near Yosemite while tending to an organic apple orchard. The cord running to the outlet is completely covered by the growth of the branch. No tellin how long it took for this to happen, but that's definitely grounds for a potential problem if they ever have to cut this tree down.

    I've come across the exact same thing in a few public camp sites that we've stayed at. Most recently at a site along the Buffalo River in N. Arkansas. Sad to see.

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    I'm thinking that the tree grows around the left behind tree straps if left pulled down tight...... Maybe time will tell.

    I would like to have a $1.00 for every chainsaw chain that went south after hitting buried barbed wire that was so deep you couldn't tell..

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    Quote Originally Posted by HangFan View Post
    I'm thinking that the tree grows around the left behind tree straps if left pulled down tight...... Maybe time will tell.

    I would like to have a $1.00 for every chainsaw chain that went south after hitting buried barbed wire that was so deep you couldn't tell..
    Have had that happen several times as well. One kickback due to wire in the tree was my motivation to get a proper set of chainsaw chaps. That was a close one.

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    Found this in the back corner of the yard @ a house my son was renting. About 10 feet up off the ground.
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    Always preached against nailing barbed wire to trees.In the process of taking miles of it down (winter work).Friend dropped off a tree he cut down in his yard.While splitting it I discovered a 20p nail he luckily missed.
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