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

[Guido Salvage]

Plow points tend to end up in the crotches of fence row trees.

 

[jmssaws]

I got a good one

 

[Al Smith]

I cleaned 6 drivers ,ten teeth and a rim sprocket all in one fell swoop .Fence post ,dead center of a big ash double with an 038 mag running a 32" .What was left of that chain is now a 72 driver for a 20" .

Speaking of which almost all of my Stihl branded chains are cut downs I get from a tree trimmer buddy .I did over twenty of them a few years back .I've got at least that many still hanging on nails .

 

[fearofpavement]

Just about every tree I cut is a residential tree. The bottom 8' of the trunk is the high risk part. I was splitting a round once and it came out like a chain of paper dolls. A log chain was holding about 5 or 6 splits together. I wound up throwing the whole mess on the brush pile. That's one I missed with the saw, thankfully.
The tree in my avatar to the left had a section of chain buried in it about 25' up. Don't ask because I don't have an answer...

 

[DSS]

I used to have a bunch of pics on AS. I found 2' of chain inside a huge elm crotch. Most of my stuff is residential trees too. Lag bolts, plant hangers, nails, screws, rocks, wire, you name it.

 

[smokey7]

I think every guy here has hit rubbish in a tree. Last year I bought my first loop of stihl rs 70dl 3/8 .050 was ripping up a tree got to the big stump to noodle in half, got half way thru it and whammy exploded chain and a cut in my jeans(yea no chaps) . I was so pissed it totally destroyed my chain bent the rails and ruined my sprocket.

 

[Brian Simonseth]

Few year back cutting up a old growth cedar I ran into this and wreck a few teeth

 

[Al Smith]

My sawyer hit nails 12-15 foot up in an ash log, from the middle of a woods no less .Only thing we could figure is some dumb azz had a tree stand at one time .That one cost me a woodmizer band blade .

 

[fearofpavement]

 

[Philbert]

. . . almost all of my Stihl branded chains are cut downs I get from a tree trimmer buddy .

If they are all the same type, you can spin them back up to any length loop, then grind the cutters even.

Philbert

 

[treesmith]

People play golf with hard boiled eggs?

Philbert

The ones I see might as well... they line up and do the most beautiful practice swing, all free flowing with an amazing follow through, then they put a ball down and out comes a horrible tense rigid movement as they *f-word it right up into the middle of nowhere, it's hilarious

We work on large golf courses quite regularly, it's quiet amazing how many balls we find, you can see one side of the tree pockmarked from all the squiffy shots

Sorry, back to chains, I stopped running chisel because of all the sharpening needed between hitting toys, nails, bottles, rocks, wires, metal pickets. It would always happen with a nice sharp chain.

We've also had a metal star picket go through a bandit 1590xp, grown completely into the tree trunk, no one knew it was there until it met the knives, then we knew. That was an expensive day for the boss

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[Terry Syd]

I hate it when I see sparks coming out of the cut...ESPECIALLY on the first cut of a NEW chain.

 

[OldJack]

fearofpavement's chain looks like the type we used to tie up cows with, way back when. Any chance of that, probably before WW II?

 

[TJ the Chainsaw Mechanic]

Take awhile to hand file that one. haha

 

[Adirondackstihl]

My sorry Mr.Langmack

 

[merc_man]

Dammit. Did it again. Wife wanted the old close line pole cut down. Then i decided to cut up into smaller peices and hit a screw that was in it. Shure ruims a sharp chain in a hurry.

 

[Wagnerwerks]

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Likely a swing set or tire swing. I hit one of them.

I'll try and get a picture, but my buddy that band saws lumber sawed a horse shoe almost perfectly flat along it and a pile of bullet slugs.

 

[Poleman]

Was someone talking bullits????? What's the odds of this out in a National Forest???

 

[Philbert]

Was someone talking bullits????? What's the odds of this out in a National Forest???

I 'dunno. . . . long shot?

Philbert

 

[hseII]

You Stihl Put It There.
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