What did this?

[Wet Chicken]

Hi everyone. I came across this tree yesterday with about 80% of it's truck missing about 12 feet above the ground. Just wondering what may have done it. Woodpecker,  porcupine, bigfoot?

[Oldguy]

Woodpeckers

[HntnFsh]

Yep!

[buckfvr]

Im thinking a joint effort there as Ive not seen woodpecker varieties be that industrious.  On the low end it looks like chew marks of a porkie.

[pianoman9701]

Pileated woodpecker.

[pianoman9701]

Porcupines don't eat wood, only the bark and inner bark of the tree.

[JimmyHoffa]

I think it was a .350 legend.

[pianoman9701]

  ...or a mountain beaver with climbing spurs.

[Timberstalker]

Kamala Harris

[Humptulips]

Possibly ants followed by bear.

[Flaming Antler Outdoors]

3 FT  PECKER,  OPILIO.  Lives close LOL

[MADMAX]

Kamala Harris

She does like the wood 


Big pileated woodpeckers

[hal]

WP Tree rotted which is good bugging. Porky only girds and eats the bark. Never cuts into a tree like a beave.

[Caseknife]

Pianoman is correct, Pileated Woodpecker.

[fowl smacker]

Porcupines don't eat wood, only the bark and inner bark of the tree.

They will too eat wood.  Used to have one that would eat on our barn, seen it several times.

[Fidelk]

Pileated woodpecker.

Ditto.

[GOcougsHunter]

It was made by an imperial stormtrooper speeder bike's gun.  Those stormtroopers make a mess with their bad shooting skills. 

[brush hunter]

Kamala Harris

I'm thinking she does, she has slept her way to where she is now

She does like the wood 


Big pileated woodpeckers

[Fidelk]

Porcupines don't eat wood, only the bark and inner bark of the tree.

They will too eat wood.  Used to have one that would eat on our barn, seen it several times.

I spent a summer in a remote USFS fire station. We lived in an old CCC barracks that was elevated about 3-4 feet above ground level and open at the bottom. A porcupine started gnawing under where the latrine was at night to get at the salt. Took about a week of nightly visits and chases to shoot it. It was smart.......would chew away until he heard the noise of guys waking up inside, then he would hightail it ahead of the posse. On his final night, I slept outside and when the ruckus started, I spotted him hauling arse to and under an old shed.

[hunter399]

Kamala Harris

I'm thinking she does, she has slept her way to where she is now

She does like the wood 


Big pileated woodpeckers

How did I miss this .
You guys talking about campala Harris.
It's like a KOA campground.
Except you can only stay one nite.
 

[borntoslay]

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