My uncle had a very old Oak in his pasture with barbwire buried at least 8 inches into the tree. At one time, decades in the past someone had a fence running along there and used the tree as a post. They must have cut the wire and there was about six inches sticking out on each side. The rest buried in the tree. I have a picture of it somewhere in a photo album in mom’s attic.
Where’s Bombadil when you need him?
Aww, they don’t appear to be doing much looming though. 
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Wow, they’re really pretty!
I have seen trees with barbed wire incorporated in them too, and sometimes trees that seem to become part of a wooden fence. But I can’t get over those bicycles, they’re like works of art!
I’ve seen street signs that were engulfed by the trees they were attached to, and also clothesline mounts. My own oak tree is in the proces of trying to swallow my clothesline now, in fact.
I haven’t sen any bikes “eaten”, but I’ve sen plenty of fences that were “absorbed” by trees.
My uncle was actually responsible for that first bike (Vashon Island in Washington State)-it is actually a girl’s bike, and when he got it for his birthday he was so embarrassed that he just stuck it on top of a sapling in the woods and forgot all about it. Years later people discovered the bike embedded in the tree as you can see, he found out about it and went, “Oh yeah…”, and it became a minor tourist attraction. The theories in the article aren’t quite correct.
Okay, you’re officially John DiCool now! Great story.
I think next time I build some fence I’ll intentionally incorporate living trees into the mix. And bicycles… kind of like your own little Cadillac Ranch, only with Schwinns.
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Awesome!
OK, I was wondering how it ended up off the ground, since trees grow from the top, not from the bottom. Someone deliberately hanging it up in the tree would account for it.
This is what I was wondering too, and they show several examples of bikes suspended off the ground.
What amazes me most is that there are enough instances of this happening that it became a news story
Yes, that was what made me doubt the story too.
For the greater good, you must set up a web cam and maintain it for the next 10 years.
I know of a local ice cream shop where, at the back of the parking lot, a cluster of trees is in the process of “eating” a steel fence post.
Also, in my neighborhood, there used to be a tree with a big cement cinder block embedded in it a good 5 feet or so off the ground! That tree seems to have been removed a few years ago, because I can’t find it anymore, and it was fairly conspicuous.
I know of a skinny type automotive tire, pre-WWII, that is half sucked into a tree in Arizona.