objects in wood

klimbinfool

klimbinfool

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how many people use metal detectors when sawing up log? Of course in my last cituation it wouldn't have helped.. I was falling a 30" black OAk, putting in my back cut, almost home when I hit something about two thirds of the way through. Brand new chain dulled out on my 044. Switched over to my 028 sniped it on one side and it fell.

I saw the object through the back cut , but couldn't tell what it was. This is what I came up with ...lol..SOB...huiygy!!!!!!\

thanks Greg
 

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One time in an ash tree, i was about 3/4 of the way through the back cut when I hit something non-wooden. I dogged in and tried my best to blast through it. After about an inch of this I was visualizing one of those steel fence posts or something. Finally got her on the ground and found a piece of fence wire that was running horizontally right in line with my cut. If I'd been a half inch higher or lower I'd have missed it completely!

Glen
 
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we had a tree to section with a metal fence embeded int he base of it, got the tree down and had to rip down the stem, cut around the fence and batter chunks off with a hammer / splitting maul, then grind the metal out. managed it without hitting the fence once....

other than that, find stones in crotches, and wire where the tree has been used as a strainer in a fence

jamie
 
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I dulled my 66 on a statue in the middle of a silver maple last year. We also had 3 trees with several bullet sluggs. We were on the look out the rest of the day. /forum/images/graemlins/ahhhhh.gif
 
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I'll never forget reading on a milling site once how someone had hit a very solid piece of steel in a log at a point something like 60' or more off the ground.
It turns out that when the tree was felled it dropped onto a steel fencepost which had got buried in the log, broken off and wasn't visible !
Pete
 
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I earlier years when we milled wood (at home)from the forrest around Arnhem (a bridge to far, WWII) we found to much scrapnel and slugs in the trees. No way to clean those logs with a metaldetector and axe. These days some older elms that survived the WWII and DED are known to carry scrapnel from german FLAK and airplane fire. Also i found some irons from electrical wire with porcelain isolators on them grown in. In belgium i have hit some 'kinderkopjes' (those square natural rock pavement things) in a 160 year London Plane. Grown between the root plates some 30-40 cm up the ground level /forum/images/graemlins/confused.gif /forum/images/graemlins/confused.gif
 
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The crew i was working with one day was clearing a storm damaged tree from a roadway. The tree had 2 cables installed in it previously so we had to be careful when bucking up the tree. The guy cutting the tree up cut on either side of where the cables attatched to the trunk to avoid the lags and thimbles. Then the imfamouse grind and spark of chain on metal was heard. It turns out that when the cable were installed, the drill bit used had broken off and was left in the tree. Guess who found it...our guy. It took many minutes to sharpen the chain...it was like 25 or 28 inches i think. Morale of the story...you just never know. Listen to whats happening so when you hit objects you can react right away. good luck and safe cutting
 
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About seven years ago I took out a five and a half foot dia Valley Oak. After falling it and bucking up some of the stump wood, a gal on the crew asked what compartmentalization was.

I took her over to the stump section and found some decay and started to explain to her how CODIT worked. As I looked all around the stump cut I noticed grey spots in the wood and started to examin closer.

To my surpise the were bullets. Counting the rings in , it was about a 127 yeas into the wood the John Bidwell era. I figured he was shooting Injuns against the trunk....lol...

The bullets I found were up as high as five and a half feet and in three cuts that I made. What was really amazing, is the fact that I sliced through everyone of those bulltes with exception of one. What the heck are the odds of that?. I took the bullet to a friend of mine ad he told me the kind of rifle that it came from . Cant remember to save my life what it was though .

Greg
 
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