Lest we forget...

[Flench]

I don't know . I have seen bobwire fence about that deep in a tree before .
On another note . I know where there is a tree deep in the wood's that has civil war carving's names on it and it's as bigaround as the hood on my truck . About 50 name's on it . I need to go get a pic of it but it takes a hole day just to get to it .

[Masherbrum]

it si good but photoshop.

It is not photoshopped, but it is not a bike from 1914 either.....

[Masherbrum]

May have to argue. When an object is in the way of a tree, the tree has three ways to grow: 1) grow around the object and at times engulfing it item, 2) grow away from the object or in some cases not grow at all. I should take my "photoshop" comment back. Yes, the bike could have been engulf by the tree ONLY if it was hang up there decades ago.

Look at fences, sings, water well faucets that tree grows around them. The tree will grow around them never shifting that object up or pushes it out of its way. There are cases of 100-200 year old trees of walnuts, cottonwood, maple, oak and so on that old musket rifles discovered inside of them Somebody laid that rifle on the tree and left it there. Over decades that tree partly consume or fully consumed that rifle, never being lifted off the ground.


OK, i like a challenge  Prove me wrong how that tree lifted that bike off the grown.  Go ahead.  

And not sure why you post something about the location.  I really don't give a dam nor did i ever question it.

The bike looks like it was from the 40's-50's.   It was placed in the fork of a tree and the tree grew around it.    It is not that difficult of a concept.

[oakranger]

The bike looks like it was from the 40's-50's.   It was placed in the fork of a tree and the tree grew around it.    It is not that difficult of a concept.

Yea, I kind of figure that after a while that somebody did that. People think that the tree just lifted the bike off the ground as it grew around it.

I don't know . I have seen bobwire fence about that deep in a tree before .
On another note . I know where there is a tree deep in the wood's that has civil war carving's names on it and it's as bigaround as the hood on my truck . About 50 name's on it . I need to go get a pic of it but it takes a hole day just to get to it .

Ooo, i would love to see that!

[Dichotomy]

Pretty cool regardless.

[Flench]

oakranger , next deer season I am going to make that trip to that tree and get some pic's . It's way cool . I was lucky to have found it and on top of that there is a big rock . I guess it's a rock but it looks like a big diamond not far from that tree . It's about the size of a small car . Have no idea what it is though . I will get pic's of it too  What I think is that there squad must have camped there by that rock and carved there name's in that tree .

[lyric1]

I know that they can grow around things one of my former homes a tree that grew through a chain link fence & lifted it about 5" inches upward from where it should be.

Oh enjoy the link.

http://www.nowthatsnifty.com/2010/02/22-trees-growing-around-objects.html

Just noticed the same bike is in the link.

[oakranger]

oakranger , next deer season I am going to make that trip to that tree and get some pic's . It's way cool . I was lucky to have found it and on top of that there is a big rock . I guess it's a rock but it looks like a big diamond not far from that tree . It's about the size of a small car . Have no idea what it is though . I will get pic's of it too  What I think is that there squad must have camped there by that rock and carved there name's in that tree .

Does i say what the carvery name was?  Dates?

[Babalonian]

May have to argue. When an object is in the way of a tree, the tree has three ways to grow: 1) grow around the object and at times engulfing it item, 2) grow away from the object or in some cases not grow at all. I should take my "photoshop" comment back. Yes, the bike could have been engulf by the tree ONLY if it was hang up there decades ago.

Look at fences, sings, water well faucets that tree grows around them. The tree will grow around them never shifting that object up or pushes it out of its way. There are cases of 100-200 year old trees of walnuts, cottonwood, maple, oak and so on that old musket rifles discovered inside of them Somebody laid that rifle on the tree and left it there. Over decades that tree partly consume or fully consumed that rifle, never being lifted off the ground.


OK, i like a challenge  Prove me wrong how that tree lifted that bike off the grown.  Go ahead.   

And not sure why you post something about the location.  I really don't give a dam nor did i ever question it.

Well, taking the statements for fact, the bike was aparently left chained in a fork that used to exist in the tree.  Now that there alone explains a good bit, also a possibility that the bike was left in the tree higher than ground-level to begin with.

Also, aparently the bike has been vandalized a few times, and locals have stepped in to restore/repair it on occasion (so that could easily explain the mismatched parts and era being off by a decade or two amongst the restored parts).

Ah, google.

Edit:  To add, you all shouldn't be so negative/skeptical today.  You're calling "hoax" - what if the kid was having to walk home with his bike from school one day after a freak snow storm came through and deposited a few feet of snow?  I know nowadays we spoil our children and keep them inside all day during even the possibility of such a blizzard in the forecast, so it's not even forseable, but almost 100-years ago?....  little bobby probabley started to walk home with his bike, realised it was for the birds, and chained it to the first tree at what was then ontop of the snow at waist-height... just speculation, but an easy couple inocent extra feet up.  Such a speculative scenario would also excuse why it got forgotten in the tree (the kid left it there the entire winter, and forgot.... or maybe got a new one for christmas)

[Flench]

Does i say what the carvery name was?  Dates?

I don't remember . It's been about 10 year's since I have been there . You could tell they were way old and it's way back in the part of the wood's that not many people have ever been if any body . It will take me some time just to find it again but I know where in the general area it's at and I know I can find it again . I will have to make it a over night thing .

[oakranger]

I don't remember . It's been about 10 year's since I have been there . You could tell they were way old and it's way back in the part of the wood's that not many people have ever been if any body . It will take me some time just to find it again but I know where in the general area it's at and I know I can find it again . I will have to make it a over night thing .

That will be great!  You are in Tenn, correct?  If so, you should contact the Tenn historical society after you found it.   

Well, taking the statements for fact, the bike was aparently left chained in a fork that used to exist in the tree.  Now that there alone explains a good bit, also a possibility that the bike was left in the tree higher than ground-level to begin with.

Also, aparently the bike has been vandalized a few times, and locals have stepped in to restore/repair it on occasion (so that could easily explain the mismatched parts and era being off by a decade or two amongst the restored parts).

Ah, google.

Edit:  To add, you all shouldn't be so negative/skeptical today.  You're calling "hoax" - what if the kid was having to walk home with his bike from school one day after a freak snow storm came through and deposited a few feet of snow?  I know nowadays we spoil our children and keep them inside all day during even the possibility of such a blizzard in the forecast, so it's not even forseable, but almost 100-years ago?....  little bobby probabley started to walk home with his bike, realised it was for the birds, and chained it to the first tree at what was then ontop of the snow at waist-height... just speculation, but an easy couple inocent extra feet up.  Such a speculative scenario would also excuse why it got forgotten in the tree (the kid left it there the entire winter, and forgot.... or maybe got a new one for christmas)

Please do not mis-understood me. I never question the age of the bike, but how the bike got that high off the ground. When reading that poster, it just says that the boy chained it to the tree and left there. Nothing about having it hung up there.

My argument was that, despite the bike was chain to the tree, the tree will never grow up wards taking the bike with it.  In fact that part of the tree does not even move up at all just grows outward. One reason you see rings in a cross section of the tree.

[Flench]

oakranger , No I am in Mississippi . I just put Memphis because people know where that is . I am just 60 mile's south of Memphis . Wounder if MS has a historical society ?

[oakranger]

oakranger , No I am in Mississippi . I just put Memphis because people know where that is . I am just 60 mile's south of Memphis . Wounder if MS has a historical society ?

I am sure they have one.

[Flench]

I am sure they have one.

I'm going to check it out for sure . Mite be some important names on that tree .

[DEECONX]

Pretty cool regardless.

Agreed.


Also, would love to see those pics Flench.