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TreeHouser
I climbed what I can only guess was a dead maple the other day. No room to drop it or bomb anything out but there was a nearby tree to rig things to. Most of the bark had fallen off and it had a lot of cracks. What I thought was interesting though was it would pop and expand a little as I would cut chunks off of it. Almost felt like my lanyard was the only think holding it together. Don't get me wrong, the tree was holding together fine and I felt comfortable with what I was doing but never saw trunk wood expand like that.(while climbing) If I chunked it down in 16" pieces I probably would have had a pile of split wood at the bottom!