When Loggers Cut Down Old Tree – They Couldn't Believe What They Found Inside

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loggers

cutting down an old

tree

and can't

believe

what

they

find inside before

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begin. Do us a favor and click the like button. Also subscribe to our channel and click the notification bell to be inspired by these heartwarming stories of every day. It is a fairly routine job and forestry workers know

what

to expect on a typical work day. Loggers spend their days safely felling heavy

tree

s and taking them to processing plants to be turned into lumber or pulp and paper, but for a Georgia craft crew. Co, in 1980, their average workday turned out to be anything but ordinary

when

they cut down an unusually light and hollow tree.

Georgia Crafts Co is a paper mill. A machinery company located in Jasper, Georgia, part of their job is to acquire wood for paper pulp, so one day in 1980 they went out to cut down some trees in a nearby forest. They didn't expect the surprise they would find inside one of the trees. The American chestnut grows very quickly, almost 4 times faster than oak, making it very valuable to

loggers

. At the beginning of the 20th century, a fungal infestation wiped out almost all American chestnut trees, leaving only a few trees in areas of Nova Scotia, New Hampshire, Alabama, Georgia and Tennessee.

For years, builders favored chestnut with its bold, blonde-grained wood because it worked easily. and were extremely resistant to rot, chestnut trees have a number of interesting characteristics and one of them resulted in a phenomenon that would astonish the loggers of the Georgia Craft Company. After having marked the trees that planned to fall, the loggers began to work and they expected to spend all the time. day felling chestnut trees, but

when

the first ax hit a particular tree, the workers quickly realized that it was hollow. Although a hollow tree is not ideal for sawing wood, loggers knew that the hollow chestnut tree would still produce very high pulp. quality, so they continued cutting without realizing what was hidden inside with the tree finally fallen, the loggers prepared to cut it into logs short enough to fit in their truck, but something caught their attention, the log supposedly hollowed out was filled with something that prevented light from passing through.

When the loggers approached to take a closer look, they jumped back in shock and fear inside the hollow log there was a strange growling sound and it was looking directly at them. The mysterious creature had sharp canine teeth and a long snout. Its front legs were close to the tree trunk. At the top it looked like a dog, or rather a frozen and deformed dog. The loggers had no idea how it had come to be inside the tree trunk or why it looked so strange, but since they had a job to do, they had to do it.

They quickly decided what to do next, knowing that not cutting down the valuable log would be a waste of money. The loggers still decided the discovery was worth preserving, so they set it aside in hopes of investigating the origin of the dog in the trunk. The tree arrived at the right location about a year after the discovery. A museum dedicated to the forestry industry of the southeastern US has opened. Southern Forestry World located about 300 miles away in Waycross Georgia opened its doors in 1981. The Georgia Craft Company knew this was home right for their strange discovery Southern Forest World spotted the tree trunk before its grand opening and staff expected it to be a popular exhibit, but they also wanted to solve the mystery of the dog inside the trunk, so they recruited a team of experts and They were able to discover the truth about the mysterious chestnut tree.

They first studied the dog trying to determine how it could have become mummified naturally, which seemed to be finally Christina Kill Grove, a biological anthropologist at the University of West Florida, had a suitable solution. Her work involves analyzing tissue decomposition and how microbes are involved in the decomposition process. They will usually begin eating the tissue shortly after death, growing, reproducing, and taking over the body until it is petrified, but something within the chestnut tree prevents this from happening. Tannin, which makes the tree resistant to rot, absorbs moisture and prevents microbes from starting the decomposition process. The tree also prevented the animals from smelling the dead dog, as the trunk acted as a chimney and released the smell into the air.

Any nearby scavenger would never have known the smell. The dog was in the tree, so it became clear how the dog had been mummified, but for Bertha Sue Dixon, director of Southern Forest World, another question remained: how did the dog end up inside the trunk? Firstly, it appears to have been a hunting dog, so experts

believe

the dog, which would have been around four years old, chased a raccoon or squirrel into the tree sometime around 1960. It managed to climb a few 28 feet before becoming trapped where they assumed he starved to death. The mummified dog prominently displayed in the central rotunda is one of the most popular attractions at Southern Forest World and has appeared on promotional materials and postcards for years, but it took decades for the famous dog to get a name until he was named in 2002 simply mummified dog and then the museum held a naming contest, some quite appropriate names were proposed, such as chipper and dogwood, and the museum team chose the name Stuckey.

If you ever find yourself in South Georgia, head to Waycross to check out Stuckey, the mummified dog trapped in the chestnut tree trunk, thank you. To see this interesting story, tap one of the two videos on your screen to see another incredible story.