curious and unusual objects

[Ahmed]

Indeed, this strange location does not result from the growth of trees, but from another explanation ...
It is the end of the trees that grows and not the whole plant.

[Gaston]

Indeed, this strange location does not result from the growth of trees, but from another explanation ...

It is conceivable that the barbed wire was placed on the ground before the trees grew.

[Grelinette]

Indeed, I had not thought but your remarks raise a question about the presence of these barbed wire at the top of the tree! ...

In this case it is alep pine, but it's true that I see a lot of very old fences embedded in the tree trunks, mostly oak trees, with some times a wire of fence that crosses the trunk from side to side, in the middle but at height of man, which confirms that a priori the trunk does not rise, and that an object attached to the trunk will remain at the same height even after decades .
Gaston's explanation therefore seems possible: the barbed wire is placed on stakes planted in the ground, and today disappeared, and it is the trees that have grown under the barbed wire and hoisted it several meters above the ground.

In the same subject besides (the objects inlaid in the tree trunks) here are 2 photos of a very curious thing on a pine trunk in the garden of one of my neighbors:

It is an oak that has been phagocyted by a pine but continues to grow through the pine trunk. We do not see it very well in the photos, but at the base of the pine trunk there are branches of oaks that come out of the trunk and continue to grow. When we see this for the first time, we think it is a hybrid tree!

[Ahmed]

The explanation of Gaston is ingenious but neglects the essential that is that in no way it is possible for the tree to raise this thread, whether it is included (what is admitted) or from the outside. I specify: since the wire is supposed to be placed on a branch and this branch (whether horizontal or vertical = trunk) grows only by its end (at a moment after the deposition of the wire), then the wire can not wear on a moving part ...

[Gaston]

The explanation of Gaston is ingenious but neglects the essential that is that in no way it is possible for the tree to raise this thread, whether it is included (what is admitted) or from the outside.

I think it's possible if the wire is there before the tree grows.
The yarn is then raised a little higher each year by the leaves (in this case the needles) of the year.

[oli 80]

Good evening, for the barbed wire at the top of the trees there is a risk when there is a thunderstorm if lightning strikes in the wire there will be several pins that will be
damaged or destroyed, but hey if this one does not go down to the ground there should not be any risk finally good I do not know

it reminds me of an anecdote at home someone who had put the ground wire with a tip at the top of an apple tree supposedly to protect it
of lightning but the opposite effect occurred, the lightning completely destroyed the tree

[izentrop]

The explanation of Gaston is ingenious but neglects the essential that is that in no way it is possible for the tree to raise this thread, whether it is included (what is admitted) or from the outside.

I think it's possible if the wire is there before the tree grows.
The yarn is then raised a little higher each year by the leaves (in this case the needles) of the year.

It could work with a tarpaulin on the top, but a wire, if it is placed on a fork between 2 branches. The fork will always stay at the same altitude while the branches will grow.
See the second picture http://bernard.langellier.pagesperso-or ... -arbre.htm

[Ahmed]

Exactly, Izentropbut provided that the tarp is light, otherwise the shoot would be deviated laterally and the elevation of the object could not be done.

[dede2002]

That wire that men were putting on top of the pines, maybe it was an improvised radio antenna?

[Grelinette]

This barbed wire hanging on the treetops remains a mystery! ...

What is certain is that he is not very young, the other indication being that he had dramatic events that go back to the last war because there are many commemorative steles.
An improvised antenna, perhaps installed by the resistance, is therefore perhaps the most plausible explanation.

(I also found many fragments of pottery dating from the Middle Ages and Roman times, including fragments of dolium, but barbed wire did not exist at this time! )