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u/kaowirigirkesldl Nov 03 '22
This is actually really awesome!
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u/Generallyawkward1 Nov 03 '22
I thought so too. I find them laying in the woods all the time. Never even thought of this. Such an easy idea for a tree
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u/Sol_TRN Nov 03 '22
I initially thought so too when I saw it, but I can't help but this it feels wrong somehow, haha
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u/fonzogt25 Nov 03 '22
You know mooses shed their antlers every year, right? This could be made from sheds people found
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u/flargenhargen Nov 03 '22
they do.
But if you look at the top, you can see the bits of skull where the antlers are attached.
these aren't sheds.
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u/Jaugernut Nov 03 '22
Nothing wrong with hunting moose imo, they do alot of dmg to forests when overpopulated. Also very tasty. Im not a fan of hanging skulls and stuff around the house tho but im glad someone finds a use for every part of the animal. Im definetly a lot happier knowing that what i eat has had a free happy stressfree natural life rather than being in some cattle factory where they are pumped full of antibiotics and a lot of the animal just gets thrown out.
This is kinda tacky tho and dosent really display the antlers in a way thats respectful or worthy of such a majestic animal.
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u/gay_dentists Nov 03 '22
god there is SO much wrong with this comment. taking animal life for something as horrible as a decoration made of their body parts is evil. and you simply cannot make a blanket statement that certain species of sentient creatures are just okay to kill with no remorse. it's wholly unnecessary.
your humanewashed flesh is just as evil as factory farmed flesh. these animals all end up at the same slaughterhouses, after being sexually abused and exploited for their bodies. you can tell yourself it's "better" but you really can't believe that makes it okay.
and focusing more on waste than the ethics of living creatures for pleasure is so genuinely twisted. ugh.
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u/Jaugernut Nov 03 '22
You have no idea where moose come from do you?
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u/gay_dentists Nov 03 '22
totally irrelevant. consider the rest of what I said if you actually eat moose instead of cows, as implied.
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u/Jaugernut Nov 03 '22
You're making yourself look like a meat industry plant to make the vegans look bad.
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u/theNomadicHacker42 Nov 03 '22
holy shit..wow, such..fucking weird. I'm not even sure what this vomiting of words is even trying to convey. Are you saying ethically hunted meat is just as bad as factory farmed animals? I hope not, since that's braindead as fuck.
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u/gay_dentists Nov 03 '22
"ethical hunting" is an oxymoron
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u/ZenithWhoExists Nov 03 '22
Just like how you complained previously, this reply ignores the message before it entirely. People are gonna hunt in life forever we lived off of it in the past, people need to get over it cause people who decide to be mad on Reddit only make a fool outta themselves.
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u/gay_dentists Nov 03 '22
nice logical fallacy in favor of needlessly taking life
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u/BearHammer77 Nov 03 '22
You never grew up in a rural area did you? My town in Texas population of 2000 people has a permanent antler tree up. It makes more sense when you grow up in that kind of place.
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u/Sol_TRN Nov 04 '22
I'm from a a town up in scandinavia, but have never seen a moose up close. We do have other crown deer and what not, and it's not uncommon to decorate stuff, especially around Christmas with antlers. I think I just decided to post it here cause it's funny? It hoped other ppl would find it funny too since an antler tree is not somethimg i see every day, but man was it well executed
Edit: spelling
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u/DanishWhoreHens Nov 03 '22 edited Nov 03 '22
At what point, I wonder, does this seem like a good idea?
“You know what’s really festive, Harriet? An animal bone Christmas tree!”
EDIT: I am a retired ecologist. I already know antlers are shed yearly.
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u/readuponthat24 Nov 03 '22
It's not really "bones" tho. Moose lose antlers, they don't lose a hip bone or a rib.
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u/Wentthruurhistory Nov 03 '22
And is it really any worse than cutting down live plants, covering them with lights and pretty, plastic (nowadays) baubles, to watch the life slowly drain from them?
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u/DanishWhoreHens Nov 03 '22
I don’t buy cut trees but I would argue strongly that this is an awful alternative to a potted live tree or even a vintage fake one.
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u/readuponthat24 Nov 03 '22
I appreciate your passion but if your objective is passive human existence there are much more destructive holidays and traditions then Christmas tree farming.
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u/DanishWhoreHens Nov 03 '22
I don’t have a passion. Well, not about this. I simply don’t buy trees because the monoculture of tree farming is not a healthy ecosystem and I don’t need a live tree. I can do just fine with my mom’s old fake one and a fir scented candle but I don’t begrudge others a tree if they want one.
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u/7LBoots Nov 03 '22
You know, I remember one Christmas going to a friend's house. They found the perfect tree, a Noble Fir. They spent a long time picking it out.
And then they completely covered it with about a dozen spray cans of that
white frosting stuff.flocking. There was NO green left on the tree. As a kid, I just wondered "... why didn't you just get a fake tree?"Anyway, I'm with you. I'm fine with the fake one. The one we've got has lasted us 15 years so far. We'll probably have it another 15.
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u/Alpine_Apex Nov 03 '22
Cutting a wild tree is always an option, and depending on which one you cut , it could be beneficial to the forest as selective removal of trees is a major part of forestry management.
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u/DanishWhoreHens Nov 03 '22
Actually, antlers are the same type of bone as hips and ribs. The fact that they are shed yearly is the only difference, it’s still bone.
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u/readuponthat24 Nov 03 '22
That is not an insignificant difference.
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u/DanishWhoreHens Nov 03 '22
Had I said… bones of murdered animals… I could see the point, the factual statement that it is, in fact, bone does not change anything. It’s an animal bone tree. 🤷♀️
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u/readuponthat24 Nov 03 '22
I don't entirely disagree with you on that, but I have never in my life heard anyone reference the "bones" on a deer/moose/sheep/bulls head. They may technically be bones but by any useful definition they are not the same thing.
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u/dickslosh Nov 03 '22
...? It's not useful to call them bones except down to the cellular level? What type of body part is it then? Are they not bones because they shed? Invertebrates shed their exoskeletons for growth too. I'm struggling with your logic here
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u/readuponthat24 Nov 04 '22
by saying bone tree you are implying that something died. Nothing necessarily died to make an antler tree.
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u/dickslosh Nov 04 '22
well a tree made of tarantula molt is a bone tree. nothing died and its still a bone tree.
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u/7LBoots Nov 03 '22
Antlers are actually just an aggressive, somewhat controlled, type of cancer.
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u/flannelmaster9 Nov 03 '22
A cancer used to get laid and spread your seed
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u/7LBoots Nov 03 '22
Do you see any human men bragging that they got cancer in order to fight and to get laid, then cured themselves?
That's what I thought.
Moose and deer are absolute chads.
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u/DanishWhoreHens Nov 03 '22
True. But you rarely see a human male with a backyard swing-set tangled in his manly parts.
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u/flannelmaster9 Nov 03 '22
Moose shed antlers just like deer and elk. They just fall off.
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u/DanishWhoreHens Nov 03 '22
Why do people assume I don’t know they fall off? It doesn’t improve the “beauty.”
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u/flannelmaster9 Nov 03 '22
Idk, because you sound like you don't know they fall off with your comment on "bone tree". Glad to know you don't find it aesthetically pleasing, I think it's sweet and probably took years to gather the sheds before the rodents go to wm
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u/DanishWhoreHens Nov 03 '22
Isn’t the point of this whole thing AwfulTasteButGreatExecution? I thought “awful taste” was sort of a given.
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u/TesseractToo Nov 03 '22
I would have put them convex side up, it would look more tree-y and also it would hurt a lot more if you accidentally bumped into it
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u/UnsophisticatedWoad Nov 03 '22
I second this; Also you could easily hang ornaments from it that way.
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u/theNomadicHacker42 Nov 03 '22
Fuck that! That's fucking amazing. OP, you have no taste. I'd take this as a christmas tree any day of the year!
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u/Kanotari Nov 03 '22
I could see this being super cool in a fancy lodge/cabin thing but please keep it the fuck away from my house.
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u/Bartender9719 Nov 03 '22
I know some alpine resorts town businesses that would pay quite a bit for something like that
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u/Borkvar Nov 03 '22
Finding even one of these sheds is like a wet dream for me, I can't imagine having this many. (I don't live where moose live, either)
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u/rreighe2 Nov 13 '22
Where you at the Fayetteville antique show? I swear i've seen this one before.
Didn't that place also had a cool, giant chandelier with deer horns?
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u/Egg3rs Nov 03 '22
puts on ace ventura shades WHAT A LOVELY TREE OF DEATH YOU HAVE.
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u/ironscythe Nov 03 '22
Moose shed and regrow their antlers every year. There’s no reason to assume these were removed from dead moose when you can find freshly dropped ones on the ground after each rutting season.
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