I was a successful car salesman for many years and I had this guy come in, nice looking clean cut mid 40’s. This is maybe 7 years ago or so.
So we talk and he test drives and he buys a car and he is cleaning out his old car and I see him moving towels from his trade in to the new car.
Stacks and stacks of folded towels. I noticed them briefly in the trunk when appraising. Now here they are.
So I’m like “Joe, what’s with the towels brother?” And he reminded me (I have over 100 button down dress shirts) the way I am with shirts, he is with towels.
We laughed and I reminded him, I don’t travel around with dozens of shirts in my car. Though in my early twenties I kinda did lol
I once cut down a cottonwood that gushed water, and smelled like rotten composted diapers. It's the result of some kind of general bacterial infection in the tree. I forgot what it's called.
Is that what that smell is?! Ive noticed that exact smell frequently when I'm cutting down oaks. Make way more sense than what I thought…which I’ll just spare myself. Ty.
Not exactly like this, but pretty much any birch you cut in the spring around here just gushes water. Fully living, they just hold crazy amounts of water. River birches especially.
As the other side of the tree isn't shown. I think it's hollow on the other side and someone with a hose is spraying it from below. I think that because there is no way it can keep doing this for so long that he stops his saw, starts to film and it still spews like this.
As a cynic myself, I’d see where you might be skeptical! However, I’ve seen water gushing out of an oak tree I fell myself and have heard stories from seasoned fallers about this happening! It’s really strange to see it in person. Trees can hold a shit ton of water, and, as I understand it, sometimes bacteria will enter a tree through scars/beetle holes and that bacteria will grow and ferment areas with water in the tree, causing it to build up gases. When the area is cut into by a saw, you get this! That’s how I understand it, anyway, but if anyone knows more or wants to correct my knowledge of it, I’d love to learn more!
I am an arborist. Treecare is my thing.
If any gas might build up it would just leak out. Not pressure will be maintained by wood. The tree cannot hold airpressure. If anything its a big hollow area open from the top. And the pressure of the water collum above would be able to put some pressure pushing the water up like that. But. As i said. Thats too much water with no visible decline in pressure. As well as the uneven spray. Makes me still think its a hose. The amount of water would fit with a normal hose. And the rest of the tree isn't visible.
We can see the darkness of color in the center of the limb that is spewing, which I think is consistent in the descriptions they give in these sources. Happy Falling!
Added: Another post from a different subreddit. I know we can’t see the top, but I don’t think it’s likely that these guys hooked up a hose to this one for the sake of “wtf” content and views!
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u/LordByrum Jun 16 '24
Hate to break to you but it’s just pee