Ohhh I see, like the fork fused to itself upward with time, all the while pushing the bicycle upward into the new base of the fork until it got caught/wedged and the tree finally grew around it. Word. I’ll go with thatSeems plausible with the bicycle stuck in a fork.
It was fused laterally but not from the bottom up.
So, how trees grow is still valid.
I can vouch for that, although I don't have pictures, either. Growing up in Kansas, Hedge Apples grew along fields all over. They are aka Osage Orange or Boise D' Arc (Maclura pomifera), and were widely planted over a hundred years ago along pastures as the range started to be fenced off to separate grazing cattle herds. There are plenty of examples of barbed wire that can easily be ducked under. This is why I am confused. Upward growth, as @leatherback pointed out, occurs at the growing tips, not the base, not in the middle. The branches never get higher on the trunk. They're always the same distance from the ground. So why/how do these absorbed items creep up the trunks?
I don't work on farm anymore so can't get photo easily. Back when I worked on farms I either didn't have a phone or if I did it was a old flip phone with out a camera. Plus since saw it so much never thought it was strange enough to get picture. I'm not saying you are wrong I'm just saying good old mother nature is mystifying.
Exactly, I didn't see it at first too and therefore couldn't explain it.
Okay, I did take this road today on the way home and was able to take a pic. It looks like its not a piece of railing, but a piece of a tractor trailer siding, which explains the hight it is at...
