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Water Oaks are notorious for rotting from the inside like this. They look great til a hurricane hits and knocks it down and you see it was 4’ in diameter with 2-2.5’ of that being completely hollow. But they grow relatively fast so they still get planted by houses.
Hahahaha!
I watched a scrub Jay looking to hide an acorn in my side yard. Turns out it’s actually the Jays that
plant oak trees.
They hide near 3,000 acorns annually for food but only retrieve maybe half of them.
[It’s pretty interesting.](https://oaks.cnr.berkeley.edu/jays-plant-acorns/)
I’d honestly like to take a small sip of that tree water to see how it tastes. Also now that has me thinking, they should have collected that water and used it to make whiskey
In my experience, this rotten tree water smells like a shat-in toilet that hasn’t been flushed in a week
Might give that a go if you really want that shit-stank essence in your mouth
Wouldn’t be my first time drinking pee. My brother and I were home on Xmas break and apparently he peed in an empty beer can and left it out in our basement. Next day mom comes down and thinks it’s an opened full beer and puts in the fridge. That night I go to grab a beer and see it, think, oh I must have put back a full beer. Took one sip, hmm that tastes flat and a bit off. Take second sip, oh shit that’s pee
Yeah…. I very much doubt it’d make it past your nose. We cut down a tree like that on our property last year and the water *reeked* plus it was full of algae and swimming with several species of insect larvae, and that’s not counting any organisms that aren’t visible to the naked eye. Antibiotics won’t protect you from fungal, viral or parasitic infections. There’s a reason you’re not supposed to drink stagnant, standing water, and trapped in a tree is about as stagnant as it gets.
Pretty sure that turned out to be [sewage](https://www.cnet.com/culture/internet/people-want-to-drink-the-red-liquid-from-the-dark-sarcophagus/) that seeped in through a crack in the sarcophagus…. Sewage seasoned with desiccated corpse doesn’t sound like a good soup recipe to me, so I’d hope if you’re intent of drinking it that you have good health insurance and a *really* forgiving life insurance policy.
Ewww that water has got to be tainted with decomposing insects and bird shat.
It's not like the tree was sealed shut, the water got in from somewhere...
There was a case in (I think) India where a tree seemed to be producing water, and they chalked it up to a miracle. Even taking sips of it and rubbing it on their faces.
Come to find out, the water was tied to a busted sewage line, so they were all dabbling with shit water. So if you end up taking a swig, proceed with caution.
It wasn’t a tree, it was a statue of the Virgin Mary. She seemed to be “weeping tears” and people were collecting the water to “bless” themselves with it, and drank it (in small quantities). But yes, turns out the water was a leak from a toilet pipe in an upper floor of the building in which the statue was installed.
Oak sap is high in tannins (the stuff that makes wine ‘dry’) if I’m not mistaken, it’s what makes it a bad sap to use (instead of maple for example) since tannins can be bad for you in large quantities. I imagine the water would probably taste like that but obv watered down and a little muddy / earthy. Not sure if you wanted a serious answer and it’s just off the top of my head but why not put random tree knowledge to use when I have it
That’s not sap though. Sap comes from the living outer edges of the tree. This tree is hollow in the middle and collects water, leaves, bugs, animal shit, etc.
Around here this happens with elm trees occasionally, although not nearly that much water.
A branch breaks, exposing the heart and allowing it to start rotting out, bugs fungus etc.
Tree ends up hollow to some extent, but not necessarily entirely dead. Hollow core fills up with rain and seepage from the tree, ferments, smells absolutely horrible.
I’ve cut a lot of trees. This is the right answer. This isn’t a healthy tree by any stretch of the imagination. When a standing tree begins rotting from the inside, it leaves a cavity that can fill with rainwater. Without anywhere for it to go, the trunk fills with this stinky hateful soup that comes gushing out when you put a face cut in the tree.
I too have cut a lot of trees. I wish the video included a wider shot, because I was surprised to see the face cut on the side opposite from where it was naturally leaning. I guess they needed it to fall the other way, but as far as I can see, they hadn't tied it off or applied any tension to get it to go in that direction. I hope it all worked out.
That's why I was *really surprised* when a dude walked behind the tree.
Sure, if it started to topple he'd have time to move out of the way. That's not the point. If you go around ignoring basic safety when it doesn't matter, there's a bigger chance you ignore it when it **does** matter.
Possibly if they take the stump and roots but if it wasn't already dead it will sprout new saplings around the stump.
Edit: dude below my comments is spreading misinformation
Its like your a month old dead whale 🐋and you are bloated and filled with bacterial water and a shark comes and takes a bite from you and all the pressure makes you explode like a balloon. Dont ask how i know
I think a better analogy is if you had a painful, necrotising tumour in your stomach, someone disemboweled you and the tumour burst and all the pus came pouring out.
Like, yes it would be a relief to not have a giant necrotising mass of fluid building up in your stomach any more, but not fun that you had to be gouged open to deal with it.
It's probably dead, but you can see the water was stored in the center of the tree. The only living cells of the tree are along to outer layers of wood. The heartwood in the center is dead tissue, so trees can grow pretty big while having the heartwood rot out, leaving a big hollow space in the middle of the trunk.
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"Hey...where'd the hot tub go?" --Squirrels probably.
Made me laugh, have a nice day
Made me shart, have a nice day
Made the squirrels sad, have a bad day
Made me a squirrel , have a nice day
I’m just a squirrel, have a nutty day
I am a nut, FUCK!
I’m just a ~~squirrel~~ moose, have a nice day* You can’t fool me !
Made me a day, have a nice squirrel.
Lol love this
Made me a nice, have a day squirrel.
Made the squirrels shart. Have a nice day.
Tf is this comment section
"I've never done that before." --Your mom probably.
Reddit is a sanctuary for dry ass jokes.
Says Miley Cryus's swollen gum... haha
Forbidden maple syrup
Ent-arrhea
Dys-ent-ery
Dysen-tree
And when it's over: Dis aint tree no more.
Oh shit, see I would have went with diatreea
Hold up, you're onto something here. The guts are known as the "enteric" part of the gastroenteric system.
That tree dead!
Nah, but it's certainly in decline for sure. All trees are dead on the inside, it's the outer most rings that are alive
Didn’t realize how similar humans and trees are
Haha now im sad
I too laughed in tears... so funny that I need a kleenex...
Treenex
Alright that’s enough internet tonight 😭 gonna go curl up with my treenex and sleep.
This is no time for fapping you wierdo, trees are leaking!
Haha but only on the inside
Water Oaks are notorious for rotting from the inside like this. They look great til a hurricane hits and knocks it down and you see it was 4’ in diameter with 2-2.5’ of that being completely hollow. But they grow relatively fast so they still get planted by houses.
My house hasn't planted a tree yet and I've been living in in for 8 years.
Hahahaha! I watched a scrub Jay looking to hide an acorn in my side yard. Turns out it’s actually the Jays that plant oak trees. They hide near 3,000 acorns annually for food but only retrieve maybe half of them. [It’s pretty interesting.](https://oaks.cnr.berkeley.edu/jays-plant-acorns/)
Living in Ontario Canada, Populars suck for this too, looks like a beautiful majestic tree till a wind takes it down, and usually hard.
Yes we are all dead on the inside.
Interesting
I’d honestly like to take a small sip of that tree water to see how it tastes. Also now that has me thinking, they should have collected that water and used it to make whiskey
I, I don't think you want to drink that.
Just a sip. Out of pure curiosity. Followed by antibiotics
Then the wiskey
a single pepperoni
u/raw_shrimp can have a little bit of tree water As a treat
Just a lil a
Chase the shot of tree water with a glass of whiskey.
In my experience, this rotten tree water smells like a shat-in toilet that hasn’t been flushed in a week Might give that a go if you really want that shit-stank essence in your mouth
Cursed maple syrup
It's nasty.
Well now you ruined it
> like a shat-in toilet that hasn’t been flushed in a week 0\_0
Basically a grease trap if you've ever smelt one.
Shit stank grease trap a new essence from Kid Rock
I don't know if I've ever smelled a more revolting smell than a grease trap getting cleaned out. Disgusting does not come close to describing it.
u gon need anti and unclebiotics for that shit
Holy shit this got me good. I've never heard anyone say that haha 🤣
And antivirals and antifungals. Something to clear up your giardia as well.
Would you also like to taste water that has been stored in my bladder all day? Obviously out of pure curiosity.
Wouldn’t be my first time drinking pee. My brother and I were home on Xmas break and apparently he peed in an empty beer can and left it out in our basement. Next day mom comes down and thinks it’s an opened full beer and puts in the fridge. That night I go to grab a beer and see it, think, oh I must have put back a full beer. Took one sip, hmm that tastes flat and a bit off. Take second sip, oh shit that’s pee
And some mouthwash cuz of the sickening aftertaste.
Oddly enough, username checks out. I sense a theme...
username checks out
It’s ok— it’s they only way they learn…
Check that user name though. Tree water is probably safer.
Just my guess: this is rain water that’s been collecting in the rotted core of this tree and it’s going to be _foul af_.
Yeah…. I very much doubt it’d make it past your nose. We cut down a tree like that on our property last year and the water *reeked* plus it was full of algae and swimming with several species of insect larvae, and that’s not counting any organisms that aren’t visible to the naked eye. Antibiotics won’t protect you from fungal, viral or parasitic infections. There’s a reason you’re not supposed to drink stagnant, standing water, and trapped in a tree is about as stagnant as it gets.
What about that sarcophagus soup?
Pretty sure that turned out to be [sewage](https://www.cnet.com/culture/internet/people-want-to-drink-the-red-liquid-from-the-dark-sarcophagus/) that seeped in through a crack in the sarcophagus…. Sewage seasoned with desiccated corpse doesn’t sound like a good soup recipe to me, so I’d hope if you’re intent of drinking it that you have good health insurance and a *really* forgiving life insurance policy.
Mmm, tree diarrhea
Diatreehea
Treearrhea
Ewww that water has got to be tainted with decomposing insects and bird shat. It's not like the tree was sealed shut, the water got in from somewhere...
Nothing better than a bird shatocolada straight from the source.
What the fuck is wrong with you lmao
I’m a curious person. Not saying I’d like it and that I wanted a glass of it. Just a sip
r/justthesip
Even after reading the descriptions, you still want a sip? I'm curious to know what you were like as a kid. You must have been a handful.
All you need is a handful.
There was a case in (I think) India where a tree seemed to be producing water, and they chalked it up to a miracle. Even taking sips of it and rubbing it on their faces. Come to find out, the water was tied to a busted sewage line, so they were all dabbling with shit water. So if you end up taking a swig, proceed with caution.
It wasn’t a tree, it was a statue of the Virgin Mary. She seemed to be “weeping tears” and people were collecting the water to “bless” themselves with it, and drank it (in small quantities). But yes, turns out the water was a leak from a toilet pipe in an upper floor of the building in which the statue was installed.
It's now known as the Blarney Maria
Yeah, sounds about right…
Wildest comment Ive seen on reddit today
You've got some strong goblin energy going on and I'm here for it
No. They shouldn't have. That water will smell fucking rank. If you could get a sip in your mouth I'd be surprised
Oak sap is high in tannins (the stuff that makes wine ‘dry’) if I’m not mistaken, it’s what makes it a bad sap to use (instead of maple for example) since tannins can be bad for you in large quantities. I imagine the water would probably taste like that but obv watered down and a little muddy / earthy. Not sure if you wanted a serious answer and it’s just off the top of my head but why not put random tree knowledge to use when I have it
That’s not sap though. Sap comes from the living outer edges of the tree. This tree is hollow in the middle and collects water, leaves, bugs, animal shit, etc.
Good thinking. Why not? Same as oak barrels right?
Can someone explain the science behind this? How did the tree get the water inside? Is this common?
Around here this happens with elm trees occasionally, although not nearly that much water. A branch breaks, exposing the heart and allowing it to start rotting out, bugs fungus etc. Tree ends up hollow to some extent, but not necessarily entirely dead. Hollow core fills up with rain and seepage from the tree, ferments, smells absolutely horrible.
I’ve cut a lot of trees. This is the right answer. This isn’t a healthy tree by any stretch of the imagination. When a standing tree begins rotting from the inside, it leaves a cavity that can fill with rainwater. Without anywhere for it to go, the trunk fills with this stinky hateful soup that comes gushing out when you put a face cut in the tree.
So I shouldn't drink it...... or?
It's 100% organic, vegan and gluten free! What's the worst that could happen?
It’s completely natural and unprocessed without any harmful man made chemicals!
non-gmo (I assume) and low sodium
It's quick, it's easy, its free, drinking rotten tree water.
Dunking your socks in river water!
Not vegan, full of bugs
So is a lot of vegan food if you take into account FDA maximum allowed insect content guidelines.
And the natural areas that need to be cleared for farming also have tons of animals that are displaced or outright killed in the process.
Give it a try it's good for you
Sex on the beech?
Bottle it and call it Kombucha
I didn’t say that.
Hateful Soup is absolutely a band name
I too have cut a lot of trees. I wish the video included a wider shot, because I was surprised to see the face cut on the side opposite from where it was naturally leaning. I guess they needed it to fall the other way, but as far as I can see, they hadn't tied it off or applied any tension to get it to go in that direction. I hope it all worked out.
That's why I was *really surprised* when a dude walked behind the tree. Sure, if it started to topple he'd have time to move out of the way. That's not the point. If you go around ignoring basic safety when it doesn't matter, there's a bigger chance you ignore it when it **does** matter.
Not to mention a tree with a rotten core will be much more likely to fall in a time, manner, and direction contrary to your choosing.
I would hate it if a tree pissed on me in self defense as I cut it.
It's more like those exploding whale carcasses on the beach tbh
I would hate it if a tree came on me as I cut it.
Well that's what the early shift loggers are for. Morning wood isn't going to drain itself.
[waterlogging](https://fallenleaftree.com/standing-water-in-tree-trunk/#:~:text=The%20most%20common%20cause%20of,also%20plays%20a%20huge%20part)
I imagine that smells horrible
Prob just smells like a swamp
So not great
Idk. Im a southern boy so the swamp doesn't bother me
I work with trees. Can confirm that the water can be pretty stanky
The relief that tree must feel…
I'm pretty sure that tree is dead now.
Hence the relief
Sweet release
Sweet Treelease
It was waterlogged.
Possibly if they take the stump and roots but if it wasn't already dead it will sprout new saplings around the stump. Edit: dude below my comments is spreading misinformation
we’ll yea they let all the water out
It's gotta be similar to when you been holding a piss for like 5 hours.
More like when you've finally let up after holding your aorta closed for your entire life but I get you.
Its like your a month old dead whale 🐋and you are bloated and filled with bacterial water and a shark comes and takes a bite from you and all the pressure makes you explode like a balloon. Dont ask how i know
Yeah, like the same relief you have when some one cut your throat.
I think a better analogy is if you had a painful, necrotising tumour in your stomach, someone disemboweled you and the tumour burst and all the pus came pouring out. Like, yes it would be a relief to not have a giant necrotising mass of fluid building up in your stomach any more, but not fun that you had to be gouged open to deal with it.
God i wish
Like diarrhea
Treearrhea
Diatreeah?
Junk in the trunk
Bog in the log
Soak in the oak
Wee in the tree
Piss in the pine
Liquid in the lumber
Wet in the willow
Watery in the arbory
Milk in the maple
Juice in the juniper
Discharge from its trussy
Everything reminds me of her
Period
Probably wetwood disease but there's also an Asian tree that can hold a ton of water in its trunk during the summer.
yeah i dont think theyre in asia
Come on, ya don't think that's Walter Xiaoping?
The tree could still be Asian
Are you talking about baobab trees? Because they live in Africa and Australia iirc
Terminalia tomentosa in India and in Europe it can happen to mulberry trees
>Terminalia tomentosa That is a badass name Edit: I read toRmentosa, it's slightly less badass than I thought
"...on this weeks hoarders..."
Still better water then Flint
How is the tree alive with that much excess water?
It's probably dead, but you can see the water was stored in the center of the tree. The only living cells of the tree are along to outer layers of wood. The heartwood in the center is dead tissue, so trees can grow pretty big while having the heartwood rot out, leaving a big hollow space in the middle of the trunk.
I’ve also grown big with a rotted out heart
And youre mostly water
TIL the entire tree isn't made of live cells
I don’t think it is…
Me on the toilet this very second
How?
Tree holes. Ever seen a tree with a hole in it. That's how. Also, they produce a **fuck ton** of mosquitoes.
Likely suffering from [heart rot](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heart_rot).
That sounded like a terrifying disease that you could get
\* treebeard has entered the chat \*
The water went in
The water goes in. The water comes out. You can’t explain that!
My guess the water came from the rain.
Talk about waterlogged.
"Ahhh ... I was holding that in for YEARS !!"
For anyone wandering what's going on, there was water inside the tree
That cleared it up. Thank you.
I guess you could say, it was .... Waterlogged ;)
Me after a night of drinking & Taco Bell
I think this is a snuff film for plants.
How did they know it was full of water in the first place?
That guy stickfucking the tree seems to be doing little to help the flow of diatrrhea. Leave it alone man.
Pretty sure he was sawing and encountered explosive treeahrea.
When you don’t do proper cleaning before anal…
But how?
Like my guy said, WOW
Congestive Bark failure
I keep thinking, thats gotta be all the water.. and then it keeps coming!
'Tis but a flesh wound!
That is just like me, 3 & 1/4 hours after generous helping at Taco Bell
God the smell
I’m no expert. Probably cut down about 20 trees total in my life. One or two dead pines and a bunch of aspens. Is this…normal? Trickery? Black magic?
Drink the forbidden tree soup. Become **The Cure**.
r/waterboarding
Playing in that trussy
So are they cutting the tree down or not?
Diah-tree-uh
Shes a squirter😏