Tree anomaly/question

[Sparzo]

Found this tree and it looks like someone nailed a bunch of big nails in the tree sometime ago. Then I noticed what looked like steps in the bark. I didn’t dig into the steps/bumps but I bet there are groups of nails in the bumps also. Seems like it would take a lot of work to get these nails in the tree. Especially if it was back in the day with hand tools. Anybody ever seen this before? Thoughts? Theories?

[Death from Above]

Someone nails boards going up the tree years ago...used to most trestands were 2x4 and plywood

[Pstraw]

Early climbing steps to a 'stand' or tree house. This is what we did back in the day before climbing stands or climbing sticks. Before screw in steps.

[Sparzo]

I figured the nails were for steps of some sort. Just seemed odd with the bunched group of nails/spikes. Kind of overkill. The tree is thick and old. We only recently cleared around it so it was kind of a neat find.


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[GarGuy]

The nails were through a foot long piece of 2x4 at one time. Climbed many of those as a kid.

[txtimetravler]

Or a three strand fence that was nailed into the tree.

[Muskles]

Used to be several trees like that when my granddad was alive. Had 2x4's nailed as a ladder. Tree stands or tree houses for us kids always had this kind of staircase. Not so safe now that I know what I know now. Lol

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[PYBUCK]

You must be a young whippersnapper to not know what that was. Climbed many a tree with 2X4 steps when i was a kid.