Trees you have carved you name on...or initials

[Al_Smith]

Once in the bark of a quakey on a mountain near  Vail Co .By this time that tree is either 3 feet in diameter or the beavers ate it years ago .I can't remember the chicks last name but here first was Patty 1965 .She was a cutie though .

[Phorester]

I might have told this story before, but years ago I started reading a novel.  In the first few pages, the author was describing the house and grounds which was to be the main scene in the story.  She had one of the characters in the story talking about trying to find a tree where he had carved his initials when he was a boy.  But the initials had "long grown up high and out of sight".  Hmmmmmmm........   I closed the book, never read another page.

[Jeff]

That's kinda like when we were at Tammy's step dads for a cookout one day. He and Tammy's mom now live in what started as an old cabin his father had bought on the Muskegon river. He was telling how small the trees that we were sitting had been when he was a lttle kid and how big they were now. He then pointed up about 25 feet at the hickory and pointed out a ring in the bark, and told me how that was where the old cloths line wire used to be tied when he was a kid. Now it was way up there.  I now take everything the man says with at least one grain of salt.

[SwampDonkey]

Well a forestry instructor one time mentioned he was visiting a woodlot with the owner one time. But, when they got back to the house the conversation focused on a yard tree at the corner of the barn with ingrown fence into it. Asked the man how old the tree was. The man replied that he didn't know. He said it's always been there as far as he was concerned, just as it is now, and that God put it there. 

[cutterboy]

Years ago when my brother was newly married he and his wife carved their names in a big beech tree on the farm where we grew up. Many years have passed since then and the farm is now mine. This week my brother and sister-in-law came to visit my wife and me. We all took a walk out to their tree and they were so pleased to see it they smooched right there.

 

 

It says......Alden+Janice  4/7/74

The tree means a great deal to them. I told them I would never cut it down.       Cutter

[Ron Scott]

Great picture! I've lift many such beech trees uncut at the request of landowners. I also have a few around the woods with my initials on and the year that I was there.

[Banjo picker]

Cutterboy thanks for posting the pic..  When this topic came up again, I thought I would go back and reread it....The first reply was Tom....I have been sitting here cryng...I sure do miss him...Banjo

[cutterboy]

Me too Banjo, me too.

[bandmiller2]

Crusing the woodlot across the street a wile back and found a perfect shotgun pattern on a big old beech.Never carved trees but took a hammer and chisel to the gatehouse foundation on the aquiduct behind the house where i grew up,my name in stone.  Was in seventh grade at the time. Frank C.

[Banjo picker]

If its still there get us a pic...Banjo