What the heck is making these holes?

[buckeyefarmer]

Do bees have a palate?

 

[Xfaxman]

To bee or not to bee, that is the question.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Knock knock
Who's there?
Bee
Bee who?
Don't cry, it's only a hole in your floor.

 

[Xfaxman]

What accent makes Boo who sound like Bee who?

 

[PILOON]

Assuming this thread is for real--

Might have been used wood that had been plugged with different wood plugs that dry rotted and fell out like balsam or popular might do.
Also over time said plug glue also could dry and vibration would not help.
Pics, to me, looked to be man made, just too perfectly round.

As an example I once had to repair a cottage that the whole flooring was dropping into the basement.
The 'handyman builder' had used balsam for the floor joists and the owner was heating the humid basement.
All the spruce wood was still just fine. The balsam came away by the handful.
All his flooring held up just fine but I was able to remove the joists with bare hands it was that bad.

Another job that was a sagging floor event was supported by a heavy main beam that looked fine at first.
When I was explaining to the owner what I suspected I rapped the main beam with my hammer and my hammer went clean thru and proved my point.
LOL that owner was thinking that his septic tank was pushed out by the frost since his plumbing would not drain.
Turned out that his whole floor had lowered by about 5 inches. What a repair job that turned out to be.
His crawl space was so humid that moss was growing on most of the wood.
Very unhealthy working under that floor.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

What accent makes Boo who sound like Bee who?

Don't let logic get in the way of a good joke.

 

[goeduck]

Until those floor boards are pulled up we may never know. Like the stuck drain plug thread we will have to keep checking back. If it were me I would want to know what is going on under the boards.

 

[Wagtail]

To bee or not to bee, that is the question.

Seeing as it was Halloween yesterday...

 

[pileof64]

I'm up by Owen Sound. Is ur bldg a old timber frame construction. Holes may have been put into board by the guy drilling the holes to put the wooden spikes thru the mortises. These spikes are usually 1 1/2 in. in diameter. The boards in ur picture seem to be unique in that the holes appear to be exactly the same distance from the edge implying they were at one time lying on top on one another. The boards would have been underneath the beam when the holes were drilled by hand auger and later filled with something. Had a extremely hot dry summer here and the plug material could have shrunk and fallen out.

 

[rd_macgregor]

Seeing as it was Halloween yesterday...

In my experience, these nearly always come in pairs.