The things you've found in trees, logs and firewood.

[BrokenSVT]

I've seen that around here people fill holes with cement to try and save them/keep bugs out ?

That's probably the case. It was neat how it was fully enclosed in the tree though.

 

[sawmikaze]

A musket ball in the middle of a chestnut that was over 200 years old.

 

[Wood Doctor]

Lots of small rocks that love to destroy saw chains. Not sure how they get there but they do a number on saw chains, faster than greased lightning.

Then again, I once bucked a 9' log that had a spike deeply imbeded every 16". I somehow managed to miss all the spikes with the chain saw as I buck cut the rounds to length but found the spikes later when I split the rounds for firewood. They emerged like devils from the deep blue see.

 

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I was removing a tree along a playground and kept dulling chains trying to cut trunk off. At one point there was apparently a hollow in it and kids on the play ground filled it with tiny rocks from the play ground surface. I went through multiple chains. It was the most pissed off I had ever been on a tree job as I had to make that cut to finish the job and it was all in the center out of sight


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[Wood Doctor]

I was removing a tree along a playground and kept dulling chains trying to cut trunk off. At one point there was apparently a hollow in it and kids on the play ground filled it with tiny rocks from the play ground surface. I went through multiple chains. It was the most pissed off I had ever been on a tree job as I had to make that cut to finish the job and it was all in the center out of sight.

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Residential trees are often filled with so much junk that sawmills won't accept them even after the logger has bucked them to 9' lengths and transported them to the mill. Losing a big ripping blade and shutting down the mill for an hour or more to change it out costs a bundle.

 

[jakethesnake]

Two nails. I’m pointing at the one I caught with my one and only stihl chain. I swear stihl chains are like magnets. If there is metal in there they’ll find it.

 

[Lee H]

Residential trees are often filled with so much junk that sawmills won't accept them even after the logger has bucked them to 9' lengths and transported them to the mill. Losing a big ripping blade and shutting down the mill for an hour or more to change it out costs a bundle.

I won't take yard or residential logs either. I have a few tree guys around here that keep
asking if I want there logs. Nope, Not worth loosing a chain cuz a bunch of kids back in
the day built a bunch of tree forts.

 

[jb-chainsaws]

I won't take yard or residential logs either. I have a few tree guys around here that keep
asking if I want there logs. Nope, Not worth loosing a chain cuz a bunch of kids back in
the day built a bunch of tree forts.

Some idiot recently had me out to price a job, taking down 5 big sycamores In a little grass opening about 100ft square surrounded by houses. His idea of payment was for me to keep the wood! I swear some people are just god damn rude... I turned round and got in my truck as soon as he said that

 

[Beer Gut]

I get most of my wood delivered from local sawmill by semi load. I found this bandsaw blade in a log almost hit it. 2nd pic the bent tab is all I could see sticking out. Lots of bullets and barbwire around here.

 

[Cracker Boy]

I was removing a tree along a playground and kept dulling chains trying to cut trunk off. At one point there was apparently a hollow in it and kids on the play ground filled it with tiny rocks from the play ground surface. I went through multiple chains. It was the most pissed off I had ever been on a tree job as I had to make that cut to finish the job and it was all in the center out of sight


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Had same thing happen to me on a oak tree were kids had dropped rocks in it as it grew it was allmost like two tress that gew into one. I kept wondering after 2 or 3 chains why it kept slowing in middle. I found 3 big landscape river rocks in it aand one my chain finially cut thru

 

[Onan18]

Lots of nails, screws, barb wire, etc...

Found a horse shoe once, naturally with a brand new 36" loop, I was most unhappy.

 

[Wolverine]

 

[blacksmith]

There was an ash tree that me and @Scotty Overkill cut down for a guy. He told us to watch for the nails because when he was a kid he had some tree houses in there. Dang this stuff was 35' or so up in the tree on branches that weren't that big.

Well he wasn't kidding along with nails and straight up spikes there was chain, cable, rope and netting grown into the tree. We should've walked away from that one. I think that we totally trashed 4 chains each and dulled a couple more! The worst tree by far that we've ever done. The next one like that I think we'll walk next time.

 

[Bilge Rat]

Found an almost rusted away 25 auto in the stump of a blowdown we cut up .

 

[TreeLife]

Musket balls, muskets, farm tools. I typically didnt bring my phone in for pics in the log woods, sure wish I did though!

 

[Poleman]

T post
bricks
rocks
chain-heavy
chain- light
cable
bullets
concrete
car parts
rope
nails, screws, wire, fence

Most interesting was a blasting cap imbedded in a tree 55 feet up. Found it doing a removal to clear a power line. Biggest one I ever seen, I had been pulling yellow wire out of the tree before that...thought it was funny to have Christmas lights up that high with ought a sign of them...…..then seen the silver tube sticking out of the tree...chunked it out an dropped it down and the old gentleman watching came over and looked at it and said it was a blasting cap from Homestake Mine... guess he should know as he was part of the blasting crews....

 

[Wood Doctor]

I ran into this guy in the center of a cottonwood tree:

Not too many folks are aware of how big these trees get:


Yes, we did harvest it. Thanks for looking.

 

[Cat 525]

Tractor exhaust pipe in a walnut tree! Empty old vodka bottle grown in an Ash!

 

[chipper1]

Cool thread, back from the dead.
Little bit of hardware in this old maple.

Once it fell I found this little guy, I took him home .
There were also a few fist sized and smaller rocks in this one, along with plenty of grubs lol.

 

[rocco490]

The above chain was found about 30' above the ground???

around a farm? maybe for working on stuff picking up equipment components unloading wagons slaughter ect....