I was out splitting a bit ago, and noticed somthing shiny in the end of a round, looks like a .22 or maybe a staple/nail - I can't really tell. I cut right through it and never noticed, it was about 2" into the round. Just wondering what others have found in trees/rounds, etc?
weirdest item you've found in wood?
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sorry, just read the post again... I've never found my sanity in an actual tree or round. I must be insane and illiterate.
I found a bullet in a piece of ash a year or so ago, it's in amazing shape, you can see the rifling on it, it's odd that it's not mushroomed at all. I figured it must not have hit the tree with too much velocity. That's about the oddest I've found besides the occasional nail.
Thistle
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A few 3/8" x 12" spikes buried about halfway in a 2ft Silver Maple trunk. Thinking some kids used them for ladder rungs to a treehouse some years before.A 3/8" x 5" heavy galvanized screw eye with only the outside edge visible in a large old Apple trunk about 5 ft in the air.Likely used to hold up someone's hammock or clothesline 40-50 yrs previous.I still have it,must've been good galvanizing,because there wasnt even any surface rust on the exposed surface.
I found a bunch of spikes when splitting rounds in a large maple once. I know where some rings that used to be used to tie dogs up have almost been completely absorbed by some white pines in my lifetime. So the pines have put on around 3 inches of radius in the 30 or so years I remember.
Matt
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Thistle said:
Wow - I bet that could've done a number on a chain... Did you hit any of them cutting?
Thistle
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moosetrek said:
Thankfully I noticed them sticking out before bucking the trunk.I sprayed them with orange paint as a reminder since it was a few days before I could finish the work.
jhoff310
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a few years back I was cutting a mulberry in my dads backyard and got half way through the standing trunk ping ping ping ping at about 3000 RPM followed by a shower of sparks and a toothless chain. I went back to the garage and grabbed another saw and cut up a few feet higher...same damn thing. 2 new chains later and up a few more feet I got the trunk cut about 6' from the ground. Dad and I dug around the stump and cut the roots with an axe, and pulled it over with his jeep. we finally burned it in the backyard about a year later and found a damn T- post in the center of the trunk. those are hard on chains
Jeff
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When I was a kid we cut down a giant cottonwood and when we split one of the crotches we found a full roll of barb wire buried inside. That roll is still hanging in the shed attached to part of the tree. Also horseshoes, spikes, axe heads, farm implement parts, etc, etc, etc. Farm country is tough on chains.
Tried a google search and found this link:
http://www.arboristsite.com/chainsaw/19636.htm
These are all good reasons to pay attention when you're cutting, you never know what's in there. I bet that fence post was a shock!
http://www.arboristsite.com/chainsaw/19636.htm
These are all good reasons to pay attention when you're cutting, you never know what's in there. I bet that fence post was a shock!
SolarAndWood
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Adabiviak
Feeling the Heat
A mouse who, for whatever reason, didn't evacuate the log that and got sliced with the tree. Dead maybe? Trapped? Deep sleeper?
I've never come across metal though - that sounds rather dangerous.
I've never come across metal though - that sounds rather dangerous.
Flatbedford
Minister of Fire
Found this while splitting some Ash last year. Missed it with the saw, but found it with the maul.
Years ago my dad cut down a huge long dead elm tree that was completely hollow (maybe not an elm?) with an 011. The brothers and I were watching for several minutes of course and these chipmunks started coming out of the trunk and climbing up the branches, there were more and more of them until it started falling and then they all glided away to the other side of the valley. Very impressive sight, it turns out flying squirrels are extremely common, just nocturnal.
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I was just out on my buddies property a few months back marking trees to cut later, and walking down the trail there was a tree with an aluminum pool ladder directly in the middle of the tree. Old owner threw a lot if crap away in the back 40 of the property. No joke, this ladder was 8 ft up the tree and smack dab in the middle of the trunk. Very strange...
homebrewz
Minister of Fire
The post above reminds me about one particularly bad flood year. Many of the tires stacked outdoors at the local tire shop floated away and were seen about 8' up in trees.
Anyway, here's my offering. Although, perhaps the title should be "weirdest item someone WILL find in wood". This is a clothesline wheel that is slowly growing into a sugar maple. The chipmunks seem to like perching on it.
Anyway, here's my offering. Although, perhaps the title should be "weirdest item someone WILL find in wood". This is a clothesline wheel that is slowly growing into a sugar maple. The chipmunks seem to like perching on it.
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xman23
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I found all the nails I put in 45 years ago. I built a tree fort and ladder up the tree in dads back yard. The tree came down last year and the nails took out 2 chains cutting it up.
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