What the most unusual thing you have found in a tree

[daveindales]

An unopened jar of pickled onions.

 

A top handle chainsaw, left in a hedge many years ago.

 

[openspaceman]

several 9mm copper clad slugs in the base of a pine, I felt each one as the chain went through them, I guess it was an accidental discharge when the machine carbine bumped against the tree.

[JackR]

I once found a revolver hiding in the epicormic growth at the base of Lime tree in Hackney 

[green heart]

Not quite as exciting as some of the above finds, but:

A serviceable Cambium saver, from a veteran Oak tree earlier this year. 

A throw-line from a Beech tree, nearby. 

A bike innertube, encircling a 20'' diameter willow limb..

Last month, a suspension harness AND two strimmer harnesses, all left at the base of a Lime tree, by a previous contractor -but sadly no strimmers, tho!

Oh, and sometime back now... a memorable pair of white lace knickers (left hanging outside a FC bird hide on the Mersey estuary !). This was apparently not left by a Red kite, tho ! 

-Maybe left by a Shag, or a (very rare) visiting White kite, just perhaps ?!

[Dan Maynard]

Found a mountain bike tyre 30 feet up an ash.

[Logjam]

20 hours ago, maybelateron said:

Complete house brick inside the main crotch

..... in a Beech. Chogging down with a 20" bar, made a right mess of my chain