What the most unusual thing you have found in a tree

[Oldfeller]

13 minutes ago, sime42 said:

 

That's a little concerning. In this country. 

You thinking "big cat"?

not ridiculing you at all, had plenty of "incidents" over the last 50 or so years.

[sime42]

Exactly. 

 

It's a topic that comes up on here from time to time. 

[Stubby]

14 hours ago, petercb said:

Old hammer BSA

I have an old hammer gun . Midland with Damascus twist barrel 🙂 Its never been up a tree .  

[PeteB]

Watched Nick Hilton start to slab an oak butt at The Bentley Wildfowl Forestry Show some 20 years back. A blue stain appeared and just grew bigger until he set about it and it was a horse shoe, hung on a branch a long time ago. It didn't have any nail holes in it! We dendro dated it and he knew where the butt came from too. He did write it up in Forestry and British Timber magazine when that was in print.

[Mark Bolam]

Used to really enjoy Nick’s column in Forestry Journal.

’Woodwise’ I think his company was.

Nice guy, met him at a couple of the Weald Woodfairs.

[eggsarascal]

Bolam, he's usually on the ground telling everyone else where they are going wrong...

[Mike Hill]

Working in Germany I found plenty of bullets. The Armour piercing ones,ruin your chain.Berlin there were roof tile chunks in most of the old trees.

 

Once in Bergen by the Docks , I felled a tree full of shrapnel.  When we were working on lowering the stump and cutting around the splinter a German guy asked what we were doing. As the chunk finally came out I gave it to him,he was over the moon. Considering the effort his fore fathers had gone to in order to get that bit of metal to Norway in the first place.

[Oldfeller]

On 23/07/2025 at 09:12, sime42 said:

Exactly. 

 

It's a topic that comes up on here from time to time. 

Having worked with big cats in the past, I always found it interesting, and uncovered a few scenarios when looking into the various sightings and rumors.

I don't suppose you could point me in the direction of any previous discussions on here, I did look but nothing came up.

[sime42]

10 hours ago, Oldfeller said:

Having worked with big cats in the past, I always found it interesting, and uncovered a few scenarios when looking into the various sightings and rumors.

I don't suppose you could point me in the direction of any previous discussions on here, I did look but nothing came up.

 

I'm a little worse for wear but, bear with. I don't recall any specific discussions but there's been a few references.

 

 

 

Google is your friend in these kind of scenarios 

 

 

 

[Oldfeller]

19 minutes ago, sime42 said:

 

I'm a little worse for wear but, bear with. I don't recall any specific discussions but there's been a few references.

 

 

 

Google is your friend in these kind of scenarios 

Google is awash with all kinds of cgi generated images of all kinds of fake sh1t and not just big cat sightings, I have seen carcass with my own eyes, and they were escapees. and I'm aware of two further  past  releases. but as far as I'm aware there is no breeding population of and true big cats in the uk outside of captivity. and those are highly cherished by their dedicated owners to release them to be hunted and shot or involved it rta,s.

 

 

 

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