There is Something In My Ash !

[seeyal8r]

I will post pics later but I cut down an old oak tree near an old house foundation from around 1900. The house is long gone. I didn't notice anything unusual when I cut it down but I just found some nails and what looks to be a small sprocket in my fireplace during ash cleanout. I'm guessing it was somewhere grown up in the tree. I think I'm just getting to the wood associated with that tree so there may be more surprises to come.

Anybody else find something weird or unusual in their Ash?

 

[oldspark]

My head!

 

[TreePointer]

Yes, and I'll never eat at that Mexican restaurant agian.

 

[Backwoods Savage]

It is quite common to find all sorts of hardware in trees. This is why commercial operations are not interested in trees from fence rows or yards. I think there have been a couple threads a while back on this topic and it can be interesting what people find.

I marked two trees last week before a crew got started cutting a bunch of our pines. Trouble is, I had one time screwed in some tree steps....and then forgot to remove them. That would be nasty hitting one of those. I have one other tree that has them but it is a maple. Still, only about a third of the step showing as the maple has grown right around it. That tree one day will go for fire wood.

 

[woodchip]

We have army firing ranges near here, used for D Day practice.

The woody area of it is full of old oaks and ash trees that would burn so well.

But nobody is interested in putting a chainsaw across a tree which possibly has lead and shrapnel embedded in it.

Quite a bit of unexploded ordnance around too, so it would make for a dangerous scrounge anyway.

Good place for wildlife though..... ;-)

 

[Flatbedford]

I found this in my Ash a couple years ago.

I still have it. It is just too cool to burn. It was deep in a 20" or so log. We got lucky with this one. Missed it on the crosscut, and milled the log this was cut from. I also saw it before I hit it real hard with the Fiskars.

 

[bogydave]

A nail every now & then. Some were mine I think.
Hasn't been occupied by modern humans as long as the lower 48.
Some nails or wire when you get along roads & trails.
I do see fire damage on some bigger trees now & then.

 

[Backwoods Savage]

I found this in my Ash a couple years ago.

I still have it. It is just too cool to burn. It was deep in a 20" or so log. We got lucky with this one. Missed it on the crosscut, and milled the log this was cut from. I also saw it before I hit it real hard with the Fiskars.

That is a nasty one Steve.

 

[wishlist]

Funny thing, I was cutting up some oak a couple of weeks ago and all of the sudden the 460 was throwing chips that were grey in color. I stopped and upon further review, splitting , I found a eye bolt that was way inside this good size oak. I missed it but the grey color wood was "stained " probably a good 2 feet. Lesson learned, green oak shouldn't have grey chips!

 

[Backwoods Savage]

Well wishlist, that is still better than finding red in the sawdust....

 

[wishlist]

Ya Dennis, that would be bad! Or in your case the milk crate would be in half. Haha....

 

[Pallet Pete]

You know it could just be an old ketchup bottle haha!

 

[SolarAndWood]

Found this in the stove last winter. Glad I missed it until then.

 

[pastera]

found a musket ball in an old oak while splitting

The tree came from a golf course (dropped off in my front yard for free) and I had to cut then noddle/split pieces off to buck it even with a 20" bar.

Don't think it was from the revolution but was easily 100+ years old...