Est. 1998 — 27 years of woodworking knowledge
Urban Timber
Ron Bauer
I found this surprise while processing a piece of maple from a friends backyard. The tree was not on a fence line or in the front yard where it might have had a sign nailed to it. I was glad I found it with the chainsaw and not a gouge or planer knife.
One never knows what will show up.
It appears to be ~16p steel nail. As soon as it was hit I knew what it was.
Re: Urban Timber
Ralph Lindberg
I have a metal detecting wand I use, it doesn't always go as deep as I would like
I found a large spike 2 inches inside some Madrone once, I figured it had been there for over 20 years.
Re: Urban Timber
Jack Guzman from Maine
A friend gave me a few pieces of black cherry he sawed into boards 25 years earlier.He discovered the tree while harvesting firewood. I was planing a piece of it and found a lead bullet somewhere in the middle of the tree. Probably a missed shot at a deer.---Jack
Bullets, bullets
John K Jordan
>>>. I was planing a piece of it and found a lead bullet somewhere in the middle of the tree. Probably a missed shot at a deer.---Jack
Cutting a big chunk of yard-tree walnut into turning blanks I sliced into a lead bullet. OK, trim that off. The next slice exposed 3-4 more bullets. I ended up with a few blocks and a stack of thin book-matched boards exposing many dozens of bullets. You can read the history in the layers as the tree grew over earlier bullets. Maybe there were a lot of nimble deer in that yard. :-)
I made a few paperweights and saved the boards - maybe I"ll make some ammunition boxes some day.
JKJ
Just about my worst strike
Dick Coers
This is my worst metal strike, found in a short ash yard log, decades ago. The worst strike I had was hitting a concrete filled crotch while ripping with a chain saw. It actually broke teeth off the chain!
This metal strike stopped the manual band mill in it's tracks. I think you can see where the blade skimmed up the side of the short pipe, but hit the flange on the street elbow. I made it through the elbow, just a very short distance. I always had the thought if the guy was trying to tap the tree for sap? From the rough cut, you can also see this wasn't the first piece of metal I had hit with that blade. I'd clipped off a nail or two on the previous cut. But this pipe finished off that blade!