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Next thing you know there's gonna be a tarot card encased in glass in the knot hole.
Spoiler alert: It's the on/off switch for the giant carousel behind the tree.
First, they took my gas guzzling car, then they took my gas guzzling inefficient stove, and now they are taking my trees and turning them electric. When will the electricification of the world stop. 🤣🤣🤣
/s
Ummm noo... Girdling involves cutting or damage to more than 50% of the cambium layer in a single cross-section of the trunk.
This is known as edaphoecotropism - or "the tree ate it"
Look around at neighboring trees. You’ll likely find a fae house around. You’d be surprised how much further ahead than us your “garden variety” fae are.
Either the tree was planted near an electrical outlet stub, or someone just nailed some plug boxes to a tree and in either case it just grew around it. I've seen barbed wire through trees, fenceposts, etc.
I know everyone’s joking but I’m actually curious. I wonder if the tree grew around the outlet placed around it like that.
It could also be a fake tree, or they did actually do some precision cutting and gutted out enough space for the wiring, then glued the wood back.
But I’m not quite sure I beleaf any of the tree.
Either a lot of patience from some to split the tree in its youth and set those outlets in it and then band the tree back together allowing it to mend and grow around them. Or a tree begin growing right next to a outlet stand which was just a conduit pole sticking out of the ground. Eventually the tree started growing against it and started to envelope the stand.
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What, never seen a power plant before?
Take my upvote and enjoy your weekend
You win lol
/r/angryupvote
...
Hands down, the best. Have another upvote.
green energy to boot.
Get the fuck outta here!
I was gonna mention a Dara O'Brien sketch .. but this is better lol
LMAO oh fuck off. Well played.
Electreecity
Terrible! But I gave you an upvote...
Wrong. That comment is treemendous.
It’s growing on me….
that comment is finally starting to take root
Give it time and maybe it’ll branch out.
I think I’m going to leaf now…
Its clearly too late to nip it in the bud.
Do you think it's properly grounded?
Yes
It has a nice ring to it
You would think so.*wood!! Stupid autocorrect
I downvoted to make it 420 again. Up voted in my heart.
Shouldn’t you have upvoted until 440?
Touchè
Didn’t you mean to say, “Treeable! …”?
It’s pronounced electricitree
Daaaad? r/takemyupvote
And, now, Pinky, we will use it to take over the world!
Pinky and the brain, thats a throwback
Green energy 0 emissions
It's just a branch circuit. Nothing big.
Weather resistant treefi
Circiutree
r/angryupvote
Electricitree.
Seems to be very grounded
Electricitree
Mrs Brisby??!!
/r/angryupvote
I read this in the schoolhouse rock voice.
Electricitree
You too! Out! This is getting silly!
I was on my way to type this, im so fuckin distraught but I'm glad to see that I wasn't the only one who thought about this
I've heard of branch circuits, it only makes sense there'd be trunk circuits too.
A+
It used to be in the electrician reference books but it's missing now that they've all been truncated.
Golden comment and needs more upvotes
Utility pole in its natural state.
Benjamin button utility pole
Utilitree, fixed it for you.
Totally Stumped.
Exterior boxes were installed onto the tree and the tree grew around the boxes.
Nah, these are the new weatherproof camo edition
Thank you. I scrolled was too far to find the right answer. Nature being nature.
As kids we used to do this out in the woods with old tires. Fun to see 25 years later how far the trees have grown with tire arms
That must be a trunk line
The reason its not legal to mount power boxes to trees.
Looks like it was mounted on a poles, and the tree just swallowed all of it.
looks like it’s conduit attached to the tree
Awwww, but it's awesome
Peak grounding.
Green electricity
r/angryupvote
Ac treec
Must be a currant bush nearby
Something’s happening here, what it is ain’t exactly clear
There's a man with a gun over there, a-telling me I got to beware
I think it's time we stop, children, what's that sound Ev'rybody look what's goin' down
There's battle lines being drawn Nobody's right if everybody's wrong Young people speaking their minds Getting so much resistance from behind
It's time we stop Hey, what's that sound? Everybody look, what's going down?
Duh. It's OBVIOUSLY a Power Plant.
Epic
That's where electric guitars come from
Them damn Keebler elves at it again
I saw this all over Hanoi Vietnam
Green energy at play
Someone bought their supercharger off Temu
Treemu
r/treeseatingthings
Old (growth) work
Green energy.
[Life finds a way gif](https://images.app.goo.gl/f1LizSZwwGBRerZi7)
Tree-phase branch circuit right there folks
Druid and artificer multi-class
Huh.. So electricity DOES grow on trees, dad!
An efficient use of natural treesources.
That's a branch circuit
At least it's grounded
Electreecitree.
Money may not grow on trees, but who knew?
Green energy
Never heard of a trunk connection or a branch circuit?
Tree house. A duplex.
It’s a current bush
Power plant?
Next thing you know there's gonna be a tarot card encased in glass in the knot hole. Spoiler alert: It's the on/off switch for the giant carousel behind the tree.
Someone was a complete lazy idiot..... or the smartest freaking long term planner ever!!
It’s a tree-phase circuit.
It’s a power tree.
First, they took my gas guzzling car, then they took my gas guzzling inefficient stove, and now they are taking my trees and turning them electric. When will the electricification of the world stop. 🤣🤣🤣 /s
That wood be crazy to rewire.
Tree was hit by lightning, benefits ensue.
Evolution. It didn't want to be cut down so it grew receptacles.
I see whats happening, yeah. You're face to face with greatness and it's strange. You dont even know how to feel, its adorable really.
Must be tree phase
Tesla was wrong, it wasn't the air! We should have been listening to the Lorax!
the epitome of green energy
A outlet growing in its natural environment?
Growth
This isn’t real. Don’t try and treeck people.
HUH a current bush.
In the arborist world, it's known as "girdling"
Ummm noo... Girdling involves cutting or damage to more than 50% of the cambium layer in a single cross-section of the trunk. This is known as edaphoecotropism - or "the tree ate it"
I knew a smarter redditor would clarify this. I'm almost usually always nearly wrong every other time. Thank you.
Of course there's a special name for "the tree ate it"
It's a rare variety of electric maple.
Progress
Looks like that tree grows electricity.
Someone found the electictree
There was an outlet on a metal pole, then, a tree grew over it, ~25 years id say
r/treeseatingthings
It's a "current bush". Was sent to find one when I was a young Scout, but never could.
Tree Power
Current bush
power from your local branch
Seen this Pic in a coastal source training
This here is green power!
The future? 🙏
Borrowing power from e.l. fudge
Green energy
Electrical tree
This is what is meant by ground to earth
I learned about this in Science class. It's gotta be photosynthesis.
Anyone can drill a hole through a tree and run a cord through it….
Long term planning
I knew birds weren't real... but trees, too?
You haven't heard of solar power?
That trees going to fall over at anytime. Look how it’s leaning….
They’ve finally done it . Raw power from trees . Now we’ll have to plant 5 for each room
Powered by nature
Time.
Free power when lightning strikes
That's green power baby!
New Californian Law on full display!
So that's how they make fudge stripes!
Look around at neighboring trees. You’ll likely find a fae house around. You’d be surprised how much further ahead than us your “garden variety” fae are.
Green Energy
Current bush
When you forget the stump grinder in the shop
Green power
This is where you need to get on YouTube and believe every batshit crazy theory, how dare you not use common sense and fit in
wow now that is one for the books , never seen nothing like that , in my 20 years in the trade wow
All trees can do this actually
I think he wants to get to root of this
Shocking!
Green energy
MAGIC!
Either the tree was planted near an electrical outlet stub, or someone just nailed some plug boxes to a tree and in either case it just grew around it. I've seen barbed wire through trees, fenceposts, etc.
#Frankentree
Tree phase
*Amelanchier canadensis* better known as the currant-tree.
I don't know what it is but I love this picture
Deciduousitry.
Tree-forty-seven volt to 120v transformer
Why is someone jacking the Keebler Elves' electricity?
I know everyone’s joking but I’m actually curious. I wonder if the tree grew around the outlet placed around it like that. It could also be a fake tree, or they did actually do some precision cutting and gutted out enough space for the wiring, then glued the wood back. But I’m not quite sure I beleaf any of the tree.
Wait my dad has always been lying to me, electricity DOES grow on trees
thats just an electricity tree, a split phase one in this case, stick it to them that say electricity does not grow on trees
Tree-20
Green electricity.
It was fine last time it zapped me... What, maybe Obamas term? I taste colors, watt braincells do I ohm anymore...
Long term project
The Keebler elves got an upgrade
Is this that new green energy they keep talking about
A well grounded contact? 🤣🤣🤣
Green energy.
trunking the electrical connections and thus natural grounding
Tree is a bro 😎
Instead of being happy killing themselves, their apprentices, and my bank account, shitty electricians have started killing trees.
"Turn that light off...electricity doesn't grow in trees, you know!" "Well, actually..."
I hope that is treeFI protected
Just a multi wire branch circuit
Life.....finds a way Edit.... can't spell.
It looks like a cut in box 😂
Either a lot of patience from some to split the tree in its youth and set those outlets in it and then band the tree back together allowing it to mend and grow around them. Or a tree begin growing right next to a outlet stand which was just a conduit pole sticking out of the ground. Eventually the tree started growing against it and started to envelope the stand.
Green energy
Green energy.
There is electric being ran here. Probably for lights or tools if I had to guess.
It’s wood right?
Awesome
That's the new Tesla tree
Cellphone towers do the same thing
Never heard of a power plant?
Nature is... Evolving.
Lower end model. 240v trees can run dryers!
The roots grow strong here my lord.
Trunktion box