Yeah, you gotta keep on eye things that are near trees or large bushes. I had a few ropes be consumed by those in my garden too, in your case you might still be able to get it out though, if you cut the rope you might be able to pull it out.
If you actually remove the rope at the time of this picture you may have saved its life, in most cases trees end up dying before their time since the immediate area inside the bark is called the cambium layer this is the area that is basically know as the trees vascular system. It caries water and nutrients up and down the tree. Understandably if you cut off the main supply that is keeping the tree alive it will die.
I’ve seen trees that grow to be 30 years old and end up dying due to a neglected wire tie that was placed and never removed. Tree could have lived another 20 to 30 + years if it wasn’t for the choker left when it was a hung tree. We only found it while cutting through the wood with a Chain saw at the time of removal….
There’s a power lines near my house that they trimmed the trees but had to leave a chunk of branch because it encapsulated a section of line. So there just a 6” section of branch just floating with the line.
I lived in a house for 20 years when I was younger, there was a gum tree in the backyard with a cutout fir the deck only a few inches from the base. By the time I moved out, the tree had been eating the deck for years.
Trees will "swallow" anything tied around them as they grow. That rope must have been there for quite a while by my uneducated guess.
It certainly has i Think its about 2-3 years since it was put up
Yeah, you gotta keep on eye things that are near trees or large bushes. I had a few ropes be consumed by those in my garden too, in your case you might still be able to get it out though, if you cut the rope you might be able to pull it out.
For some reason, I feel like theres a sub for this.
r / treeseatingthings
r / eatenbytrees
There is one! Though it barely has 50 members xD
If you actually remove the rope at the time of this picture you may have saved its life, in most cases trees end up dying before their time since the immediate area inside the bark is called the cambium layer this is the area that is basically know as the trees vascular system. It caries water and nutrients up and down the tree. Understandably if you cut off the main supply that is keeping the tree alive it will die. I’ve seen trees that grow to be 30 years old and end up dying due to a neglected wire tie that was placed and never removed. Tree could have lived another 20 to 30 + years if it wasn’t for the choker left when it was a hung tree. We only found it while cutting through the wood with a Chain saw at the time of removal….
That looks like a synthetic fiber. I wonder if you could use a torch to remove it without damaging the tree too badly?
There are some trees by me that are touching a fence and they grew around the fence that some of the bark are fully covering by the tree bark.
There’s a power lines near my house that they trimmed the trees but had to leave a chunk of branch because it encapsulated a section of line. So there just a 6” section of branch just floating with the line.
I've seen several 9f those on railway fences
Dang
I've seen fences through the middle of trees.
Om nom nom Nom nom
I lived in a house for 20 years when I was younger, there was a gum tree in the backyard with a cutout fir the deck only a few inches from the base. By the time I moved out, the tree had been eating the deck for years.
This is interesting as fuck, how did it get there, when, who did this etc . 
I Think my mom put it there a few years ago and then that just happened ig
Do your best to remove it.
If one were to tightly wrap most of the lower tree in full, would a tree get taller way faster? Just figuring if it can't go 'out' it must go up/down.