What's the weirdest thing you have ever cut through when felling/bucking????

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Why O why is it always with a new or just sharpened chain,never with a junker?

it's always a new chain.. not even a half hour after I put a new chain on my 455r.... I was whacking up a 36" pine log that has been sitting on my lawn for as long as I can remember... so I could toss the chunks on the burn pile and be done with it.... the chain is now in a coil waiting for me to buy a grinder... damned expensive trash removal...
 
Murphys Law I guess. It's just the way it is ask me how I know. It will happen when you are trying to show off to someone how well your saw will cut as well.
 
Here are mine:

1 - I cut through a bullet felling a tree for my dad's neighbor. Nice and shiny where the saw went through it, but the chain cut fine, so I kept going.

2 - Years ago, cutting with my grandpa, I hit a lag bolt. Someone had fastened something to the tree, and the tree grew around it. Never saw it coming and broke the chain.

3 - Barbed wire fencing. Was helping a friend clear his fence line, didn't realize that the tree we were bucking used to be the fence line. They had moved the fence line about 20 feet, then this tree fell across it years later. This threw the chain off the bar. Had to clean up about 4 drive links with my flat file, but still have and use the chain to this day.

4 - Tomato cage. I was clearing some thumb sized brush with my chainsaw and didn't realize there was a tomato cage in all of it. That made a few sparks. No major damage, but lots of sparks.

5 - My all time favorite (because it happened to me last week and I am still trying to figure it out)...... CONCRETE. I cut down a poplar at the corner of our back yard and decided to cut the stump off level with the ground. It had a lot of butress roots, but I was just cutting away with a wedge supporting one side. Half way through the stump, the saw just quits cutting.........I said heck with it, I had felled, limbed, and bucked that tree with one saw, it must just be dull. Get my second saw, crank it and try to keep cutting. I go about an inch further, and it quits cutting. It was only then that I thoroughly inspected and found someone had throw a gob of concrete as big as a fist between two roots. It had been there a long time and blended right in with the tree. Busted that up, put on a fresh chain, and voila! Chains sharpened right back up and cut fine.

What have you hit with your saws? Ever break a chain?


I dunno about weird but I was cutting thru part of an apple tree and hit a drywall screw. Pissed me off cuz it dulled my damn chain and didn't realize that's what it was till I tried to make my next cut..
 
All the same as others: barbed wire, nails, screws, and as well concrete. Cutting a dead limb off an apple tree on my buddies property while cleaning things up after winter. The saw made it through the limb but dulled the chain something fierce. Told him about the limb and he just started laughing. Said he forgot all about it. Seems that when a tree got a rotten spot or a branch broke off in a storm the owners would fill the hole or crotch with concrete. Obviously this was a cure for orchard trees, decretive trees, things like that. Buddy said his dad had done the "patch" in the apple tree 20 yrs ago. Thanks Pete!
 
A sideview mirror.....somebody had a REALLY bad day.
 
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A sideview mirror.....somebody had a REALLY bad day.
You can't leave us hanging............how did that happen?
 
Yea, what the f%&*, sideview mirror? How the heck did that happen? Cannot be a normal or safe situation. Let us know...
 
You can't leave us hanging............how did that happen?

Not exactly sure how it happened as the incident must have taken place at least 40 years before I cut the trunk. The tree had grown around the mirror and I used an axe, hatchet and chisels to get it out of the round. As before, somebody had a really bad day.
 
If I ever invent a time machine, we will go back and find out how in the heck a side view mirror ended up in a tree. I have seen a lot of things that trees grew around, but that one would be a first for me.
 
Not exactly sure how it happened as the incident must have taken place at least 40 years before I cut the trunk. The tree had grown around the mirror and I used an axe, hatchet and chisels to get it out of the round. As before, somebody had a really bad day.

No matter what the details, I'm guessing it hurt.
 
I have what might be most of a car buried in the ground behind my barn. Based on the parts we've dug up, we've determined it to be a 1960's Ford. Some of the parts (vent window locks, dash board heater control push buttons, etc.) have been picked up in trees growing in that area, but I've not hit any with the saw.
 
I have what might be most of a car buried in the ground behind my barn. Based on the parts we've dug up, we've determined it to be a 1960's Ford. Some of the parts (vent window locks, dash board heater control push buttons, etc.) have been picked up in trees growing in that area, but I've not hit any with the saw.

Those trees are now art.
 
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