Ever have a chain that was gettin with it and................

[junkman]

POW
This was under the bark ,milling i was getting great chips ripping with this skip chain ,then POW.......ZING ...........PPPHHHHHHH

 

[Brewz]

Lucky you were using cheap chain

 

[merc_man]

i went to the bush with one saw and was walking back out ten mins later. Dam rock under tree i dropped and never noticed it. Ruind you chain in a hurry.

 

[jacob j.]

Was that a residential tree? There's usually lots of metal in residential trees.

 

[Deets066]

POWView attachment 24891
This was under the bark ,milling i was getting great chips ripping with this skip chain ,then POW.......ZING ...........PPPHHHHHHH
View attachment 24892 View attachment 24893

Yeah I used to have it on video but can't seem to find it

 

[Canadian farm boy]

Somebody need to invent a saw with a built in metal detector. Finding hardware in a tree ruins your day in a hurry.

 

[junkman]

Was that a residential tree? There's usually lots of metal in residential trees.

Was a fir tree from the back of my property ,the sucky thing is i am the one that screwed that hotwire bolt/plastic ring in the tree a few years ago ,but it was broke off flush with the bark so i did not see it ,it was about 6 inches above the felling cut ,good thing i used a humbolt or would have hit it felling the tree .Glad i have a grinder to fix the chain ,that is .404 so the cutters have more sharpening life in them .

 

[Brewz]

I cut up a huge tree a while back and when i got it home I found I had missed a nail by about 2mm

 

[junkman]

Somebody need to invent a saw with a built in metal detector. Finding hardware in a tree ruins your day in a hurry.

I find rocks in them also milling sometimes ,the trees grow around them for some reason sometimes

 

[Canadian farm boy]

It's amazing sometimes what you'll find buried in a tree. I seem to remember a thread over on AS where someone found a pistol buried in a tree.
I've found metal fence posts, maple syrup taps, countless screws and nails and even a horse shoe. I even found a porcelain hydro line insulator once in the top of an ancient maple tree.

 

[Guido Salvage]

A nest of squirrels in a poplar log for the mill. When the chips start coming out red you tend to stop...

 

[Philbert]

. . .the sucky thing is i am the one that screwed that hotwire bolt/plastic ring in the tree a few years ago . . . .

Karma is a b*tch!

Philbert

 

[cus_deluxe]

 

[Philbert]

? hard boiled egg?

Philbert

 

[Wood Doctor]

I will never forget the year I cut up a log from a residential property owner. The unknown owner had driven in about 10 climbing spikes in the trunk about 20 years earlier, each spaced about 15" apart. The tree had grown completely over them, so all were hidden from view.

I bucked the big trunk into a dozen or so rounds, oblivious of the embedded spikes and by some miracle, I missed them all with the saw. Then I proceeded to split the big rounds, and the spikes started appearing left and right. In shock, I split one round after the other and revealed the buried monsters. A few I missed by only an inch or so.

 

[Chainsaw Jim]

? hard boiled egg?

Philbert

Ever play golf?

 

[Chainsaw Jim]

I've found several big pinion gears and other larger objects grown into oak and cottonwood crotches around here.

 

[merc_man]

A nest of squirrels in a poplar log for the mill. When the chips start coming out red you tend to stop...

Cut a coon in half that was in a hollow tree.

 

[CTYank]

Dropped, bucked and hauled away what remained of a large decrepit red oak for a friend of a friend some years back. On the fringes of a local university campus. Split it at home, and burned it a year+ later in the stove. In the ashes I found a chunk of cast-iron about 6" long in the shape of an elephant. Likely held small signage onto the tree. Somehow avoided catastrophic collisions with it- blindest luck. Would've exploded a chain, and didn't have chaps back then.

 

[Philbert]

Ever play golf?

People play golf with hard boiled eggs?

Philbert