I Have Hunted and Cut Wood in the Same Woods For 30 yrs and Just Noticed This. It is a Limb Growing Between Two Sugar Maples and is Solid all The Way Across.
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An Odd Find In The Ohio Woods!
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ricky racer
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Awww. That's cute! They're holding hands....
That's sooo sweet.
Very neat find!!
Very neat. Hopefully some idiot doesn't chop it down to split in half and turn into an epoxy river table. I am so over that "woodworking" trend lol
DooleyVT
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I hope you’ve kicked an extra point through there?!
That's a 2TC tree. A trunk for each tether
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30 years ago my dad found the exact same thing (I believe they were sugar maples also) in an area my family hunts. The limbs were higher up and not quite that far apart, if I remember correctly. It was a really unique thing that he showed to several people. The area was eventually logged and they cut it down. It’s cool that there is another one out there.
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Skunkworkx
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Whole new meaning to "for eternity"
I think it would be easy to make one, cut a vee in each end of a sapling and a matching vee in two trees. fit it tightly, tar and strap together. Just as a graft!
I was thinking the same thing, but the odds against it happening by chance, in nature, are astronomical.
The cut limbs on the right tree makes it seem likely intentional as well.
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Maples are particularly prone to self grafting. Now that you’ve seen it keep a keen eye for it and you’ll see that it happens more often than you’d thought.
I'd guess someone did that intentially judging by the clean graft and other scars.
Nope, Its in a woods edge and the farmer was trimming along the edge when he found it.
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And here’s another maple with multiple branches grafting into a second trunk
