I saw this in a tree...

[boojababy]

In my yard and have never been able to figure out what it is, it starts with a thin wire comming out of the tree attached to that is what looks like the chain bank pens are attached to then the glass thing...anyone have any idea what it is?

 

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[ticndig]

It's most likely a humming bird feeder or a bug trap. the pic really don't show much but a blur .

 

[boojababy]

I first saw it whe I moved in 16 years ago, I think whatever it is grew up with the tree. It's at least 20 to 30 feet up

 

[jones6780]

If it's 20-30 feet up, it started 20-30 feet up. Trees grow from the tips not the base. Someone may have placed an antenna in the tree or some other thing.

 

[boojababy]

If it's 20-30 feet up, it started 20-30 feet up. Trees grow from the tips not the base. Someone may have placed an antenna in the tree or some other thing.

Oh, I didnt know trees grew like that.

 

[ARC]

If it's 20-30 feet up, it started 20-30 feet up. Trees grow from the tips not the base. Someone may have placed an antenna in the tree or some other thing.

Personally... I for one have never believed this.

Regardless of what "they" say... and I know this is what "they" say... but whoever "they" are... are mentally flawed on this.

A neighbors oak tree has an embedded clothes line roller in it.

She stated it once was eye level to her... and now easily sits at 10 + feet.

PS... she was five foot tall at best... bless her soul.

 

[ticndig]

I saw a tree that had a name carved in it and the date of 1902 it was around 10ft up a huge beech tree.
I've known for years what the tree experts claim and known for just as many it may not be true .

 

[ToddsPoint]

If it's 20-30 feet up, it started 20-30 feet up. Trees grow from the tips not the base. Someone may have placed an antenna in the tree or some other thing.

This ^^^.
Trees don't lift anything. Here's the proof. Walk a farm field that has an old woven wire fence with trees growing up along the fence line. You will see the trees grow around the fence so the fence wire is going into the wood. Now, tell me if anyone has ever seen that woven wire fence lifted 10 ft. in the air by the trees. As old fences growing in tree lines are super common, please post a pic of a fence that has been lifted by trees. Gary

 

[pa plateau hiker]

This ^^^.
Trees don't lift anything. Here's the proof. Walk a farm field that has an old woven wire fence with trees growing up along the fence line. You will see the trees grow around the fence so the fence wire is going into the wood. Now, tell me if anyone has ever seen that woven wire fence lifted 10 ft. in the air by the trees. As old fences growing in tree lines are super common, please post a pic of a fence that has been lifted by trees. Gary

Some people will never believe an object in a tree stays at the same height forever.

 

[Tpmetal]

trees don't lift things up(at least no species I know of). as toddspoint mentioned look at old barb wire fences, I also pounded a huge spike into a spruce tree when I was a kid at eye level, 20 years later here and it is still at 4 feet tall. The old fences are in everything from maple, beech, black cherry, ash, iron wood, locust and so on.

 

[jones6780]

I think the op should climb the tree and find out what is up there!

 

[A2coins]

Someone's golf club or their radio shack detector I would have to find out lol it would bug me that much

 

[Joe-Dirt]

Good call Tommy, it’s my 5 iron, I never could hit anything straight with that piece of s*** anyway. Just kidding of course, all I see from those photos is a flying bunny holding a horse.

 

[A2coins]

Thats hillarious !!!!!!

 

[mdj]

The picture is blurry but I think it's an electric fence insulator. That's what I see. But I agree it shouldn't be that high up.

 

[Anduril]

Probably the remnants of someone's Amateur Band (ham radio) antenna, which are often strung between trees as the radio wavelengths can be quite long.
The glass part would be the insulator to prevent the antenna from shorting out to the tree.

....which is a little bit interesting because you would think if it's made of metal it might have rusted / oxidized to oblivion by now?
But maybe not.

Look for the other end of it: Another piece on nearby tree, or maybe a wood screw hole (eyebolt, etc...) on the home's fascia board or soffit, etc...
This is where the other end of the wire (antenna) would have been.
Google long wire antenna.

 

[TimberCrack]

it's a glass insulator and remnants of telephone line from the days of hand crank phones...fell timber for twenty plus years in the Pacific Northwest...sawed into a few of these while limbing and bucking logs...really screw up a sharp chain..

 

[boojababy]

I can't reach the bottom branches or I would climb up.

 

[boojababy]

I was thinking something to do with wiring but wasnt sure what kind.

 

[lairmo]

"TWIGGY'S" lil bro from the Blair Witch?...be careful dude...