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

extreme trends presents loggers cut down an old tree and can't believe what they find inside before we begin do us a favor and click that like button also subscribe to our Channel and click the notification bell to be inspired by these heartwarming stories every day logging is a fairly routine job and forestry workers know what to expect on a typical work day loggers spend their day bringing down heavy trees safely and bringing them to the processing plants to be made into lumber or pulp and paper but for a team from the Georgia craft Co back in 1980 their average workday would turn out to be anything but ordinary when they cut down an unusually light and hollow tree Georgia crafts Co is a paper mill Machinery business located in Jasper Georgia part of their work involves acquiring wood for paper pulp so they headed out one day in 1980 to cut some trees in a nearby forest they were not expecting the surprise that they would find inside one of the trees the American chestnut tree grows very quickly almost 4 times faster than oak which makes it highly valuable for loggers in the early 20th century a fungal blight wiped out nearly all of the American chestnut trees with only a few specimens remaining in pockets of Nova Scotia New Hampshire Alabama Georgia and Tennessee for years chestnut with its bold grained blondish wood was favored by builders as it easily worked and was extremely rot resistant chestnut trees have a number of interesting characteristics and one of those resulted in a phenomenon that would stun the loggers from the Georgia craft company having marked the trees they planned to fall the loggers began to work they expected to spend the whole day chopping down chestnut trees but when the first axe struck a particular tree the workers quickly realized it was hollow though a hollow tree is not ideal for sawing into lumber the loggers knew that the hollow chestnut tree would still produce very high-quality pulp so they continued to chop not realizing what was hidden inside with the tree finally down the loggers prepared to chop it into logs short enough to place on their truck but something caught their eye the supposedly hollowed out trunk was stuffed with something that was preventing the light from passing through when the loggers moved in to get a closer look they jumped back from shock and fear inside the hollow trunk was a strange snarling and it was looking right at them the mysterious creature had sharp canine teeth and a long snout its front paws were near the top of the tree trunk it looked like a dog or rather like a frozen misshapen dog the loggers had no idea how it had come to be inside of the tree trunk or why it looks so odd but as they had a job to do they had to quickly decide what to do next knowing that not cutting up the valuable log would be a waste of money the loggers still decided that the discovery was worth preserving so they set it aside in the hopes of investigating the origin of the dog in the trunk eventually the tree made its way to the right place about a year after the discovery a museum dedicated to the forestry industry of the southeastern US opened southern forest world located about 300 miles away in Waycross Georgia opened its doors in 1981 the Georgia craft company knew that this was the right home for their strange discovery southern forest world perceived the tree trunk before its grand opening and the staff expected it to be a popular exhibit but they also wanted to solve the mystery of the dog within the log so they enlisted a team of experts and were able to discover the truth about the mysterious chestnut tree first they studied the dog seeking to determine how it could have possibly become naturally mummified which it seemed to be finally Christina kill Grove a biological anthropologist from the University of West Florida had a fitting solution part of her work involves analyzing tissue decay and how microbes are involved in the decomposition process usually they will begin to eat the tissue shortly after death they will grow reproduce and take over the body until it's petrified but something within the chestnut tree prevents this from happening the tannin which makes the tree rot resistant absorbs moisture and prevented microbes from beginning the decaying process the tree also prevented animals from smelling the dead dog as the trunk acted like a chimney and blew the scent high into the air any scavengers nearby would never have known the dog was in the tree at all so that cleared up how the dog had been mummified but for Bertha sue Dixon the director of southern forest world another question remained how did the dog wind up inside the trunk in the first place he seems to have been a hunting dog so experts believe that the dog who would have been around four years old chased a raccoon or squirrel into the tree sometime around 1960 he managed to climb about 28 feet before getting stuck where they assumed it died of starvation the mummified dog prominently displayed in the central rotunda is one of the most popular attractions at southern forest world it has been featured on promotional materials and postcards for years but it would take decades for the famous dog to get a name until 2002 he was simply called mummified dog then the museum held a naming contest some rather fitting names were proposed such as chipper and dogwood and the museum team chose the name Stuckey if you ever happen to be in southern Georgia head to Waycross to have a look at Stuckey the mummified dog stuck in the chestnut log thank you for watching this interesting story please tap one of the two videos on your screen for another amazing story [Music]

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Length: 5min 17sec (317 seconds)

Published: Wed Mar 27 2019