Experienced arborist makes a bewildering discovery after inspecting a dying tree: ‘First time seeing this’

An arborist encountered something baffling after slicing into a client’s tree: concrete. “First time seeing this,” the Redditor wrote in the subreddit r/Arborists. An accompanying photo shows a large hole that, sure enough, is filled with dark gray concrete. “That’s an old school move,” one person commented, to which another replied, “From a time in America when man was trying to be so dominant as to leave no room for squirrels, birds, or any wildlife whatsoever…”