Author Topic: Ran across something odd today! (Read 3241 times)

David-L · « **Reply #20 on:** January 25, 2014, 07:19:00 AM »

I like Ed k's thought, probably pit and mound from a weather happening, tornado, etc. I see these in the woods around here from the 53 tornado and the 38 hurricane in the town of Petersham. You can follow them right through town where the path of destruction led.

David l

47sawdust · « **Reply #21 on:** January 25, 2014, 07:46:22 AM »

Holmes and David L took the words out of my mouth.
There is a story in Northern Woodlands about the '38 hurricane that swept through New England.To this day you can still see the mounds left behind by the uprooted trees.
Of course civil war fox holes is a lot more interesting.

CCC4 · « **Reply #22 on:** January 25, 2014, 08:22:26 AM »

These are man made. You will see in the video that nature had nothing to do with this. The humps or mounds or whatever are all on the downhill side, nature didn't do this, they are over 10 feet long and the mounds are nearly 6 ft wide. Not to mention they are staggered all in one area up this mountain. It's not old stump holes, I promise that.

Video stalled last night, got it back going this morning. This uploader doesn't do well with videos over 8 mins. It may take a few re-starts to get the entire video up. I took the camera over to a buddy's house last night and he is going today to try and find a metal detector.

When pre-viewing the video last night, I wanted to make sure I showed what I was seeing and I think that I accomplished it pretty well. Totally unnatural mounds scattered all through. I am standing on a couple of them and you can clearly see the shallow pits behind them. The mounds show the dug up rock that is across the top of them. They are just perfect mounds, all together, and all cut in the exact same way and staggered up the hillside.

One curious thing I have come to a conclusion is is that these mounds are located 150 up the mountains looking over a very old wagon road that runs in the bottom of the hollow. You might ask why I say wagon road??? I found a metal ring that would have gone around a wooden wagon wheel. I have it stashed in a brush top, thinking about trying to pack it out...pretty neat hand forged ring.

I'm trying to get the video up as fast as I can, I talked to an Old man last night who's wife is a local librarian in the area and they want to see the video pretty bad. A Civil War skermish was fought on the other side of the White River from me...tooo small to have been really important but it was about a mile and a half as the crow flys from where I am cutting.

mad murdock · « **Reply #23 on:** January 25, 2014, 01:56:49 PM »

Sure sounds like a "dig in position" taken by a military force from the description of it. Can't wait to see the video.

David-L · « **Reply #24 on:** January 25, 2014, 02:59:30 PM »

It's not over till the fat lady sings. Can't wait to see the video. I enjoy all woods history.

David l

coxy · « **Reply #25 on:** January 25, 2014, 04:41:14 PM »

I have one more bag hurry up this is driving more nuts then I all ready am

plasticweld · « **Reply #26 on:** January 25, 2014, 05:53:14 PM »

I was in West Virginia a few years ago and visited and old battle site. I will have to look up the location, it was a hill top battle and it was between north and south on the Road up to the house where there was a bend in the road was the old fighting trenches that they had dug, they ran in a perfect defensive location to keep anyone from going up the mountain road. It was two and in one spot three ditches that ran parallel with the road. Sounds very similar to what you discribe

goose63 · « **Reply #27 on:** January 25, 2014, 07:23:12 PM »

Waiteing

coxy · « **Reply #28 on:** January 25, 2014, 08:07:50 PM »

and some grits to go with that

CCC4 · « **Reply #29 on:** January 25, 2014, 11:26:45 PM »

Dang...finally got it to upload!

! Remember guys that I botched this cut...misread the lean...missed my back cut....had to get some help from the skidder. I'm not embarrassed er nothing over the cut...it happens..not very dang often...hey, might as well show a screw up.

thenorthman · « **Reply #30 on:** January 25, 2014, 11:52:10 PM »

I'm voting civil war bunkers.

And its good to see someone besides me posting screw up vids, really helps build character...

CCC4 · « **Reply #31 on:** January 26, 2014, 12:04:23 AM »

Pftt! Yeh...character! Nothing like doing it for the camera! LMAO!

mad murdock · « **Reply #32 on:** January 26, 2014, 05:41:31 AM »

Thanks a bunch for taking time to share this CCC4! Pretty cool stuff you get to work around down there!!

coxy · « **Reply #33 on:** January 26, 2014, 07:02:43 AM »

ate my last bag

nice video I too think it has to do with a war would not get to far around here with out chains on them tires

nice oak to bad for the mark up the side

hope you find out what they really are and I am not going to say any thing about that cut cause I am not a pro darn good at what I do but not a pro it has happened to the best of us at one point in time

David-L · « **Reply #34 on:** January 26, 2014, 07:17:54 AM »

Nice video, hand chopping can have it's interesting moments. I take it that was a lightning strike on the oak.

David l

Jeff · « **Reply #35 on:** January 26, 2014, 09:26:09 AM »

Looks exactly like pit and mound or what we call cradle knolls. A natural occurrence here. The holes are longer than they are wide. Where my dad grew up, and the forest I hunted as a kid, I was convinced that at some point someone had been searching for some sort of long lost buried loot.

This area which my family called the cradle knolls, was where I sat year after year in a deer blind. It was years later as an adult, after spending hours and hours of looking at these, that I formed my hypothesis of what happened. It was here on the forum where the Foresters confirmed my conclusions. Not saying yours isn't something different, but everything I see makes me think its natural. The earth is a wondrous place.

treeslayer2003 · « **Reply #36 on:** January 26, 2014, 09:41:02 AM »

the only thing I don't think it is, is blow over holes.
its my turn to be jelous of your timber

, them are nice oaks bro. looks like that tree had a bit of a sweep to it, can be hard to read. you must really trust your skidder op.

Ed_K · « **Reply #37 on:** January 26, 2014, 10:23:48 AM »

Them hole's don't look like the blowover holes I mentioned

on the tree,I do that really well

but I have to walk back to the landing to get the skidder.

thenorthman · « **Reply #38 on:** January 26, 2014, 11:12:16 AM »

Quote from: CCC4 on January 26, 2014, 12:04:23 AM

Pftt! Yeh...character! Nothing like doing it for the camera! LMAO!

Don't feel bad last week I went to fall a nice fat dougie, stuffed all my wedges in (5) and she still didn't want to go, so I figured the little hemlock next to it was holding her up... still didn't go. Its been roughly an hour to this point, both trees are point down the easy way back to the landing. So I get to walk the long way back... uphill both ways... to grab one of the jacks... did I mention the jacks are really heavy, if you get a chance to buy one of them silvey jacks do so... 2 hours one tree no video but got 3 36' logs out of it and better then half a log load out of one tree.

thecfarm · « **Reply #39 on:** January 26, 2014, 11:15:47 AM »

Like I saw when Mr Perfect gets talking about how good he does,You have to do something to make a mistake.

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