What I found in the ash

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Northern NH Mike

Northern NH Mike

Feeling the Heat
Nov 2, 2008
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Northern NH
I was cleaning out some ash out of the box this weekend and found a maple tap (spile). We burn lots of maple, so I understand why it was there, but was surprised as I would have noticed a piece of metal sticking out of a split. Could it have been embedded in a split?

What unexpected finds have others had in the ashes?
 
Most every morning I find some coals . On the rare occasions I have found nails and an eye bolt.
 
Mike, someone just forgot to pull that sucker out. Definitely the tree will grow right around it and in time you won't ever know it is there. I have a couple of trees that I forgot to pull a couple of screw-in tree steps. There is not much showing of them any more. I'm thinking about cutting that tree now while I know where the steps are!
 
We have a large Beech tree in the back yard. 23 years ago I put a bracket on it for a bug light back before I found out that most of what the thing does is attract bugs to the place. I noticed the other day that only three or four inches of the arm on the bracket are still visible sticking out of the trunk.
 
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cmonSTART said:
Are you going to see if the tree will swallow the entire but light?
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Took the light down 20 years ago. But it did give me one of the best laughs of my life. One night when the light was on and the windows open a big Luna Moth got hung up in it and the sparks flew and the frying sounds went on for what seemed like forever. After it stopped I heard my wife yell from upstairs "Take that you son of a groan!".

I almost fell off of the deck laughing.
 
Took down a 150 year-old Hemlock a few years back & when I split it to
burn I found the wheel from the end of an old clothesline embedded in the trunk.
Like somebody mentioned earlier, I'm glad I missed it with the chainsaw!
 
BrotherBart said:
cmonSTART said:
Are you going to see if the tree will swallow the entire but light?
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Took the light down 20 years ago. But it did give me one of the best laughs of my life. One night when the light was on and the windows open a big Luna Moth got hung up in it and the sparks flew and the frying sounds went on for what seemed like forever. After it stopped I heard my wife yell from upstairs "Take that you son of a groan!".

I almost fell off of the deck laughing.
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She probably thought it was you frying LOL :p

Ray
 
ansehnlich1 said:
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Is that a real pic? If it is that is amazing!!! I know trees will grow around just about anything but a bicycle??

Ray
 
Trees are amazing "creatures." I think that when the ole 028 dies I'm gonna give it a proper burial by resting it in the crotch of some tree and letting the tree get a little revenge.....
 
Ray, that is a real picture. I've seen it several times. Seems it may have been in Country magazine once too but don't recall for sure.
 
We had the power company come through about 2 months ago to clear the lines. They cut down a box elder and the only thing left of that tree is a chunk of wood grown around a guy wire. I suspect it'll be there for many years!

Jim
 
raybonz said:
BrotherBart said:
cmonSTART said:
Are you going to see if the tree will swallow the entire but light?
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Took the light down 20 years ago. But it did give me one of the best laughs of my life. One night when the light was on and the windows open a big Luna Moth got hung up in it and the sparks flew and the frying sounds went on for what seemed like forever. After it stopped I heard my wife yell from upstairs "Take that you son of a groan!".

I almost fell off of the deck laughing.
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She probably thought it was you frying LOL :p

Ray
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To funny :)
 
Buddy cut down a tree in a yard a few years ago. Saw started not cutting, he let off and found an old porcelin resistor in it that had been grown into the tree.
Gone until you cut it.
Chad
 
I thought it was entertaining having a bug zapper hanging off the deck until some determined suicidal beetle got in there and set it on fire!! Decided then that the zapper had to go lest I set my house on fire.. They say those propane powered CO2 mosquito magnets actually work unlike the electrocution zappers (they attract everything but mosquitos).. My solution was to create a screened in deck.. Should have done that the 1st time!

Ray
 
I thought it was entertaining having a bug zapper hanging off the deck until some determined suicidal beetle got in there and set it on fire!! Decided then that the zapper had to go lest I set my house on fire.. They say those propane powered CO2 mosquito magnets actually work unlike the electrocution zappers (they attract everything but mosquitos).. My solution was to create a screened in deck.. Should have done that the 1st time!
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Ray,

I have 3 zappers and I swear by them!! Depending on the mosquito population, I can catch literally thousands in each trap every night. I've been using them for years and it definitely makes a difference. I figure for every mosquito I fry, that's a bunch of eggs that will never hatch! I had a Mosquito Deleto for three weeks and finally brought it back to the store because it did absolutely nothing except burn a lot of propane. Look at the reviews on some websites such as Amazon and you will find a lot of people that don't like them either.

If you want something that really works, try Spectracide Triazicide spray. This stuff is awesome!! I didn't see a mosquito in the sprayed area for 2 months at least. I have 5 acres so using the spray in an area that size is not very practical so that's where the zappers come in.

From woodburning stoves to Mosquitoes.....Hmmmmm I think were drifting a little.
 
I found this with my Fiskars. It can from an Ash tree that a friend of mine was milling with his Alaskan mill. He got lucky and started milling a few feet from where this was, and he got lucky again when he cut it into rounds.
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imacheezhead said:
I thought it was entertaining having a bug zapper hanging off the deck until some determined suicidal beetle got in there and set it on fire!! Decided then that the zapper had to go lest I set my house on fire.. They say those propane powered CO2 mosquito magnets actually work unlike the electrocution zappers (they attract everything but mosquitos).. My solution was to create a screened in deck.. Should have done that the 1st time!
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Ray,

I have 3 zappers and I swear by them!! Depending on the mosquito population, I can catch literally thousands in each trap every night. I've been using them for years and it definitely makes a difference. I figure for every mosquito I fry, that's a bunch of eggs that will never hatch! I had a Mosquito Deleto for three weeks and finally brought it back to the store because it did absolutely nothing except burn a lot of propane. Look at the reviews on some websites such as Amazon and you will find a lot of people that don't like them either.

If you want something that really works, try Spectracide Triazicide spray. This stuff is awesome!! I didn't see a mosquito in the sprayed area for 2 months at least. I have 5 acres so using the spray in an area that size is not very practical so that's where the zappers come in.

From woodburning stoves to Mosquitoes.....Hmmmmm I think were drifting a little.
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LOL thanx for the heads up Jim! I avoid being outside of the screened in deck from dusk on.. Even with screens you get a few but not many plus I have power on the deck and a fridge with cold beers :)

Ray
 
Our cabin is in a 2-mile long gulch, an old mining area but only for a very few small-time mines, long abandoned. No other homes up here and never have been. I cut all our firewood right here. Over the years, I've found a number of spikes, nails, many decades grown over. Why the heck someone stuck something in a tree way out in the woods I'll never figure out. I've lost only two chains to this phenomenon, luckily. I mean, a hundred years ago someone walked up to a tree miles from town or a mile from their mine shack and hammered a nail into a tree??? Makes for interesting ash removal, though.
 
imacheezhead said:
I'll be right over!! ;-P
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You're welcome to it as most anyone here is!

Ray
 
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scythe...

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buddha head...

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wagon...

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big washtub - I love this one, it's lifted off the ground!...

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These were ALL snagged from the web, but it is sure interesting to search for this stuff!
 
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