Tire in a tree?? Help solve the caper??

[Backwoods Savage]

Maybe since it's close to the road someone blew a tire decades ago, it went air borne and there it landed. I have seen truck tires fly off in one piece and roll down interstate 78 in PA, bounce off another car and fly through the air, landing god knows where. Anything is possible!

I doubt it because the tire is not on a rim. Sure makes us think though. And you are right, I too have seen some tires go flying. Best if they are going away from you!

 

[raybonz]

View attachment 90278View attachment 90280View attachment 90281 OK - in another thread I mentioned this tire in a tree and decided w/o pics it just is not real. For those of you in Mid-Michigan this is west of Howell on the north side of Mason road.

Ash tree confirmed and it is dead, dead but when I first saw the tire years ago, it was a live tree. The tire is at least 40' off the ground and the branch or trunk or whatever it is titled that it is hanging on I am guessing is more than 12" with way to much above it to allow the tire to be placed there even if someone was able to get up there.

So, how do you all think it got there in the first place?? For the record, I have no clue. I just find it super interesting.

Simple it's not an ash it's a rubber tree

Ray

 

[raybonz]

I can easily picture this: "Let's put that tire up in this tree and many years from now it will drive people crazy trying to figure out how it got up there."

On the other hand, you have to admit that tire has lasted a long time. Firestones don't last that long for sure.



Or, maybe this is a rubber tree?

LOL didn't see your post and said the same thing..

Ray

 

[Hearth Mistress]

I doubt it because the tire is not on a rim. Sure makes us think though. And you are right, I too have seen some tires go flying. Best if they are going away from you!

Those suckers can pull right off the rims! My dad had an old pick up, bad mount job I guess but that dang thing worked off the rim and went flying. My dad had just said "i think there's something in the tire, you hear that thumping?" Thank goodness we were on a pretty secluded back road but I'll never forget that jolt when the rim hit the road instead of the tire. Needless to say I learned a few new curse words that day

 

[711mhw]

That is deffinetly an old tired Ash!

 

[billb3]

There used to be one in a tree way up like that in the median of 195 in SE Mass in Fairhaven or Mattapoisett
It could be the whole truck : http://www.roadsideamerica.com/tip/9349

 

[bmblank]

Is it near an airport? Maybe its a plane tire!

 

[gerry100]

Maybe the guys in the bucket use an old tire as a bumper( I keep an old tire in my pickup bed for just that reason). Just left it up there.

 

[jeffoc]

When I was a senior in high school, a friend of mines family owned a junkyard and anothers had a construction company. One night about a week before graduation while sitting around, we decided to load up a pick up with 20 old tires and get the cherry picker from the job site of the other guy and drop them down the flagpole at school.
In the end we got about five on before we chickened out and took off.
The next day they had the maintenance guys out there with every cutting device imagineable trying to get them off.

 

[yooperdave]

When I was a senior in high school, a friend of mines family owned a junkyard and anothers had a construction company. One night about a week before graduation while sitting around, we decided to load up a pick up with 20 old tires and get the cherry picker from the job site of the other guy and drop them down the flagpole at school.
In the end we got about five on before we chickened out and took off.
The next day they had the maintenance guys out there with every cutting device imagineable trying to get them off.

Damn good thing you got away with that caper! Otherwise, it could have ended up in your "permanent record"!

 

[ScotO]

Yeah, that's definately wierd........but this is weirder.....

 

[etiger2007]

Bob what the heck are you guys doing down there?

 

[Machria]

Yeah, that's definately wierd........but this is weirder.....

That brings a whole new meaning to "tree hungers"!

 

[bboulier]

Obviously been there for a long time. Tireannosaurus wrecks?