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Have You Ever Ridden a Pine Tree?
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Have You Ever Ridden a Pine Tree?


Sep 2, 2019, 3:06 PM

Don't laugh. I'm serious. When I was writing my post re the Eye of a Hurricane and mentioned the long leaf yellow pine, I remembered one of the fun things we did as kids. The long leaf yellow pine is flexible as a young tree. We would select a tree about 15 - 20 feet tall, climb as high as we could and make the tree bend with our weight. We would gently come down to the ground. I don't ever recall one of the trees breaking. It was a fun thing, did not cost a thing and the trees were plentiful. The one thing we tried to avoid was skinning the bark. The trees had a lot of resin and if our clothing came in contact with the resin it was difficult to remove.

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The group Alabama calls that "Skinning Cats" in their song.***


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Sep 2, 2019, 3:14 PM

Did it many times Joe. We did not have Long Leaf but Loblolly and they would break causing painful falls.

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Re: The group Alabama calls that "Skinning Cats" in their song.***


Sep 2, 2019, 3:19 PM [ in reply to The group Alabama calls that "Skinning Cats" in their song.*** ]

Skinning a cat on an upstate mill hill was pulling u on a horizonal limb and cutting a flip back through your arms (does that make sense ? )

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Sep 2, 2019, 3:20 PM

Many, many times. Grew up in a house in the middle of a long leaf pine grove. Great memories.

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Sep 2, 2019, 3:42 PM

We used to climb persimmon trees up in the woods and have persimmon wars from tree to tree. The green ones hurt. The ripe ones were just nasty.

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Sep 3, 2019, 4:33 PM

There was an old joke about a guy breaking his arm while eating breakfast, he fell out of a persimmon tree.

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Sep 2, 2019, 4:56 PM

Doubt these youngsters ever heard of riding a pine. Was so much fun.

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Sep 2, 2019, 4:59 PM

I did it as a young teenager Mr. Joe . It was always an exciting weekend distraction around Berkeley County.

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Sep 2, 2019, 5:03 PM

Around here we would 'ride' ironwood saplings.

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Sep 3, 2019, 4:36 PM

Been thar, rode that!

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We called it tree bending.


Sep 3, 2019, 4:36 PM

I guess that wasnt all that creative of a name for it.

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