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« on: January 15, 2015, 05:28:54 AM » |
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« Reply #1 on: January 15, 2015, 07:50:38 AM » |
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The guy that saw this did not touch it ?  |
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Patrick
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« Reply #2 on: January 15, 2015, 08:58:16 AM » |
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Hmm, maybe a Grizzler turned the tables on him.  |
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hubcapsc
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« Reply #4 on: January 15, 2015, 09:28:29 AM » |
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I don't see how something could lean on a tree "for years" and not
be at least partially absorbed into the growing tree...
-Mike
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Jess from VA
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« Reply #5 on: January 15, 2015, 09:34:59 AM » |
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If only leaning with light weight of rifle, wouldn't slow growth just keep pushing it outward?
I've seen the motorcycle-absorbed-by-a-tree picture, but that was a lot more weight against the tree.
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hubcapsc
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« Reply #6 on: January 15, 2015, 11:52:40 AM » |
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If only leaning with light weight of rifle, wouldn't slow growth just keep pushing it outward?
I've seen the motorcycle-absorbed-by-a-tree picture, but that was a lot more weight against the tree.
Ida know. I leaned a small log against a persimmon tree a few years ago, and they are now one. -Mike |
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« Reply #7 on: January 15, 2015, 12:19:30 PM » |
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Seems like that as the tree grows, over time gaining circumference, the rifle would fall away from the tree ???
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Everything is - Nothing is .
When you come to a fork in the road - TAKE IT!
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« Reply #8 on: January 15, 2015, 12:29:22 PM » |
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Seems like that as the tree grows, over time gaining circumference, the rifle would fall away from the tree ???
What are you, a F-in' horticulturalist now? Your like a child that wanders in in the middle of a movie, you have no frame of reference. |
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« Reply #9 on: January 15, 2015, 12:59:18 PM » |
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Yeah, now I'm a cunning linguist.  It's "you're", old folliclly challenged noggin They're working around the clock, down in the lab. LEADS  |
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« Last Edit: January 15, 2015, 01:01:58 PM by Motor City GiG »
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Everything is - Nothing is .
When you come to a fork in the road - TAKE IT!
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This isn’t Rocket Surgery
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Jess Tolbirt
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« Reply #10 on: January 15, 2015, 01:01:34 PM » |
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NEXT!!!!
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« Reply #11 on: January 15, 2015, 01:06:24 PM » |
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Don't stoppum' now Jess, they're just warming up. I know they're grinning and so are me.
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Ride like it's your last....grinnin' all the way.
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« Reply #12 on: January 15, 2015, 01:38:12 PM » |
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I have a 100+ year old ski we found leaning against a tree in the mountains...stuff like that...ya gotta wonder what happened to the owner...
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CUAgain, Daniel Meyer  |
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Jess from VA
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« Reply #13 on: January 15, 2015, 03:09:48 PM » |
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I have a ring of car keys down in the Lake Erie bottom ooze somewhere. (that sucked  ) I don't think they'll turn up anytime soon. Growing up on an island in the mouth of the Detroit River on Lake Erie, every 7-8 years or so with just the right circumstances of wind, current, yada, the water would go out for a quarter to half mile. We found all kinds of old stuff out there. Including bootleg whiskey from the prohibition days. And giant old carp. After big storms, I found two drowned men floating face down at the end of our dock (couple years apart). Boaters needed to pay more attention to storm warnings and small craft advisories. |
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« Reply #14 on: January 15, 2015, 06:25:46 PM » |
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If only leaning with light weight of rifle, wouldn't slow growth just keep pushing it outward?
I've seen the motorcycle-absorbed-by-a-tree picture, but that was a lot more weight against the tree.
Ida know. I leaned a small log against a persimmon tree a few years ago, and they are now one. -Mike I leaned a small part of a aluminum ladder against a maple tree for the kids to climb on...20 years later it is now part of the tree. |
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« Reply #15 on: January 15, 2015, 07:47:34 PM » |
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I'm part of my recliner  |
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« Reply #16 on: January 15, 2015, 08:13:03 PM » |
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Just google images for "things grown into trees" and prepare to be amazed.
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« Reply #17 on: January 16, 2015, 04:22:56 AM » |
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it's a wonder that the tree lived that long.
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« Reply #18 on: January 16, 2015, 06:11:23 AM » |
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Don't stoppum' now Jess, they're just warming up. I know they're grinning and so are me.
I love it when two old farts start giging each other and have a good time,, i was ready to sit back and watch the fum,,sat there all night last night,, was late for work this morning, just waiting for a reply and you guessed it,, they both ran outta words and there i sat....o well i will have to start something i spose.. |
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« Reply #19 on: January 16, 2015, 06:15:56 AM » |
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I don't see how something could lean on a tree "for years" and not
be at least partially absorbed into the growing tree...
-Mike
this happened in Nevada, I don't think things grow too fast out there.  |
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« Reply #20 on: January 16, 2015, 06:28:30 AM » |
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I don't see how something could lean on a tree "for years" and not
be at least partially absorbed into the growing tree...
-Mike
this happened in Nevada, I don't think things grow too fast out there. I googled up the area after I made my post... its where those 5,000 year old bristlecone pines are.... I bet they don't grow very fast... -Mike |
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« Reply #21 on: January 16, 2015, 06:51:23 AM » |
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I think a lot of you are jumping to a wrong conclusion here. The story says the rifle is 132 years old. Nowhere does it claim, assume, or indicate that the rifle had been left there for 132 or even any more than a short few years.
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« Reply #22 on: January 16, 2015, 06:55:46 AM » |
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I'm part of my recliner LMAO, I think I am also to part of my recliner. |
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« Reply #23 on: January 16, 2015, 07:00:12 AM » |
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That's right, the old rusty rifle coulda been there 10 decades, 10 years, ten weeks, or 10 minutes  I bet Sinkhead knows He's older than dirt and expert about prolonged leanin against trees... |
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Everything is - Nothing is .
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« Reply #24 on: January 16, 2015, 07:01:03 AM » |
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That gun looked like it was there many years. You figure, a guy isint going hunting with an OLD OLD gun, maybe just an old gun so maybe it was a 30-50 year old gun when it was originally left there. It could have been there by the tree since then, that's what it looked like to me. I hope the owner wasn't eaten by a bear  |
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« Reply #25 on: January 16, 2015, 07:35:04 AM » |
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They need to inspect all the old bear poop and see if it contains digested Grizzly Adams' parts |
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« Reply #26 on: January 16, 2015, 02:04:22 PM » |
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Where'd all that new modern tape around the stock come from??
Jim
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