Sycamore 1 - Chain Link Fence 0

[MMUK]

A bit of background to this. A lovely old lady used to live next door to my parents. Back in the late 1970's my dad removed two dying sycamore trees from the botton of the garden, leaving a couple of very young saplings. He had a general tidy up and put some chain link fencing across the bottom of the garden. Now a biking mate of mine lives next door and he asked me to clear the bottom of the garden - he's never ventured down there since he moved in and amongst all the building rubbish from the cowboy who refurbished the house after the old lady died, it was a fauna haven for various wildlife, mostly of the amphibian kind

Anyway, I've cleared the rubbish and created a nice froggy haven in the back corner out of the mulch and various bits of rotting fauna. I came across this, nature refusing to give way to mankind. It's awesome, I've never seen anything like this before. You can see where the tree has grown through the fence and then healed itself with permanent scars.

 

[Rhossydd]

And that's why so many commercial saw mills don't want to touch garden timber ;-)

 

[gregmcateer]

Brilliant!

 

[rafezetter]

I can go one better than that....

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2255706/Amazing-images-bikes-left-long-trees-them.html

 

[mrtree]

I remember in the 80's picking up timber from a sawmill near Lincoln, the owner showed me a butt with a flintlock pistol embedded in it.

 

[MMUK]

I remember in the 80's picking up timber from a sawmill near Lincoln, the owner showed me a butt with a flint lock pistol embedded in it.

Was that the butt of a would-be burgler? :lol:

 

[John Brown]

I can go one better than that....

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2255706/Amazing-images-bikes-left-long-trees-them.html

My brother in law used to live on Vashon Island, and I've seen that one in the flesh.
It features in this children's book:
http://teaching.monster.com/training/articles/2278-the-red-ranger-challenges-santa-are-you-real
Rumour has it that it's been repaired a few times, as people have stolen parts of it over the years!

 

[Random Orbital Bob]

If you left your Morgan chassis in an ash plantation for long enough, they could assemble themselves