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.