Antler Christmas tree

[Barry D]

I made this tree with about 300 antlers. Cut the bottom off a blown down tree to get the roots for stability. Started with moose on the bottom, a few smaller elk, and then the rest mule's and whitetails. Merry Christmas to all my fellow shed hunters.

[elk eater]

This is awesome !!! Best covid project Ive seen yet. Thanks for sharing. I am impressed

[wildwoods]

wow so incredible i love it!! great work!

[elk eater]

So many questions !!! How much do you think it weighs ? How did you hook them together ? How long to find all those sheds ? Wow.

[C2C3PO]

Absolutely amazing - you are a talented individual !

[nimrod]

All I can say is WOW, what a great Christmas tree, you have great talent.

[Red Bullets]

Excellent project. A true work of art and heirloom tree. I'd just take the lights off and leave it up all year. Maybe put two mounted turtle doves in it for christmas. Must have taken a while to compile so many drops.

[Barry D]

I'm still working on the technique, but I attach the bottom ones to make a cradle for the rest. It takes a big pile of antlers to choose the right shape to stack with enough entanglement to stay stable, but also give the desired shape. I do a layer of antlers and then a layer of lights, and work my way up to the top. I've had to take it apart and start over, but this is my third year, so I'm getting a bit better each year, and the tree gets a bit higher too.
My guess is about 400-500 lbs, but I will weigh it when I take it apart in Jan.
Some years my son and I have only found only 30-40 and other years we find over to 200, but that would be an exceptional year that we have only had happen twice in 20 years. This tree is from fresh antlers from the year I found them.

[lromanchuk]

That's amazing work. She's gotta weigh a ton???

[no-regard]

That is incredible, the best one I've seen!

[Barry D]

Here is a better picture of the antlers. I had shrink the file to have it down load, so sorry on the poor quality. With enough playing around with the antlers, it is actually very solid and to take it apart is quite a challenge. A knuckle buster if you try to hard, not to mention trashing the lights.

[Positrac]

That’s pretty cool Barry! You’ve got some talent for making a pile of sheds look awesome.

[Smoky buck]

My wife says your tree looks cool. She has been bugging me about shed hunting this year and has picked up an interest in the things people make with them.

I have a feeling I will be hiking around clueless looking for sheds this spring. It will be painful because she walks so slow and she will likely try and teach me what to do even though she has no clue as well lol

Nice work

[7magtime]

Amazing talent and dedication to take the time to put that together, slow clap.....!!

[Savage Bacon]

Beautiful! I love how it comes out of a stump.

[58thecat]

very nice...hate to have a few toooooo manyyyy wobbly pops and tumbled into that beauty...

[6.5 shooter]

Well done a true work of art..congrates and Merry Christmas

[Moo Snukkle]

Outstanding job Barry
Prolly enough there to fund a Christmas vacation
My sons friend was getting $11 a pound for fresh sheds last year

[catnthehat]

That is amazing!, great job!
Cat

[WTHunter]

Nice job again Barry! Always impressed.
Ian

[Chewbacca]

That’s awesome

[Stinky Buffalo]

Amazing work, there! That's gorgeous!

Thanks for sharing.

[Pathfinder76]

Fantastic!

[KUDUHNTR]

Wowsers............simply awesome, great job!!

[weekender7]

I am always impressed by people with skills. You have skills and put them to good use. Beautiful work on the Christmas tree. It takes some get up and go to collect that many qualiy sheds.

[teledogs]

We done Sir! Very well done!

[Barry D]

It looks like your are all enjoying the tree, so here is another one I made out of beached antlers that have been out in the elements for a year or two. Bottom ones are caribou(from the Yukon), elk and then a couple of moose and a bunch of deer to top it off. Nice to come home after a long day and have this to welcome us home on the back deck.
Yes, it is a lot of walking and some days you get skunked looking for then, but I call them "natures treasures" every time I spot one, its like I found a rare gem. After about 1,300 antlers I have yet to find a guaranteed Booner though. That still eludes me. Biggest matching set is about 165" for W. T. and about 175" for mule deer. Smallest one is a spiker that is 2 1/4" long, now those are hard to find too.
Looking for them keeps me in shape, and it's amazing how much you learn when you are out across the province looking for them.