Chain modifier

[Andrew96]

Well I know I'm fairly new at this game and others will just smile...but I hit this hunk of crappy concrete. I thought it was just a little rock or something until I started to hack it out with a chisel. I know..not the best photo once I went a got a 1/2" hammer drill and stuck a 3/4" drill bit on it to 'test for depth'. Once I found it was 6-8" deep...this lump turned into fire wood. Who puts concrete in a tree anyway?
The only good thing about it all was that I stopped cutting with 'cat like reflexes'... though as you can imagine, that made no difference to my chain. I'm taking a step towards making it into a milling chain now.

Barely got time for photo before the storm moved in...didn't even clean the concrete dust off of it. It's a photo though...actually happened. Wish it didn't though.

 

[rayvil01]

That's awful!

I saw concrete in a tree once also. There was a monstrous Willow Oak tree right on the side of the road in Prince Frederick, MD. When they finally took that thing down, there was a whole section of concrete jammed into the middle of it. The guys cutting it up said the concrete had been in there a long time.

I guess they were thinking it would seal it and stop the rot?

 

[gr8scott72]

That's awful!

I saw concrete in a tree once also. There was a monstrous Willow Oak tree right on the side of the road in Prince Frederick, MD. When they finally took that thing down, there was a whole section of concrete jammed into the middle of it. The guys cutting it up said the concrete had been in there a long time.

I guess they were thinking it would seal it and stop the rot?

Very common practice to put concrete in the middle of a rotting tree. I have no idea what people that do this think they are accomplishing but I've seen it plenty. When I bid on taking a tree out that I can see concrete in, I bid in several chains for that job.

 

[mtngun]

The downside to milling urban logs.

Thanks for the pic.

 

[billstuewe]

Yep, It was a common practice to seal up a hollow in the tree to keep varmits/vermine out. I cut a large mesquite in half that came from a very old Church yard in San Antonio, TX. Hit a large patch--it does stop the cutting. This thing was buried deep in the tree:

 

[NeoTree]

The downside to milling urban logs.

Thanks for the pic.

I can't imagine you guys milling homeowners logs with success! I hit a nail almost every darn time I'm out doing work around houses.

 

[mtngun]

Billstuewe's mesquite.

Lots of supervision.

Ouch.

 

[luvsaws]

Holy crap!!

 

[BobL]

Walking along a street in Sofia a couple of weeks back and . . . . . .

Sorry it's not a good picture but it was night time and only had the cell phone on me.

 

[isaaccarlson]

We had some trees back in my hometown that looked like that. Cement all up the side/middle.

 

[Andrew96]

Well I've never seen anything like that before. Mortar up a tree? Geez.

Urban trees are full of crap I guess. This was my first one. I guess maybe, my last.

 

[RikBrooks]

I can't imagine you guys milling homeowners logs with success! I hit a nail almost every darn time I'm out doing work around houses.

We are debarking our trees with a draw knife. So far that's helped us find the nails.

 

[Brmorgan]

We are debarking our trees with a draw knife. So far that's helped us find the nails.

That won't find the ones that your great-great-grandaddy pounded in there a hundred years ago to hold up the clothesline though!

Nails I can deal with; concrete would be a nightmare. Will carbide chain even last very long in it?

I like Bob's picture of the tree with all the hunks of sidewalk/curb jammed into the catface on the side. They'd be jammed in there pretty tight just after a couple year's growth, I'm thinking.

 

[PineFever]

I have a Gold Bug II Metal detector (that I use in another hobby) I run over my logs prior to milling.
So far It's paid off for one 20 penny nail that was under the bark.
But it sure wont help for concrete, mortar or rocks.

 

[huskyhank]

A nail ain't no big thang.....
just need a quick filing and back to work.

Boy that concrete is nasty!!!

I thought I had a great sycamore log a few weeks ago. I cut it out of a pile that had been "excavator logged". When the trackhoe guy moved it for me I did not see what I saw the next day from the other side. Its got a couple of big wires coming out of it and three smaller wires from that at 90 degrees. I think it has an electric fence power supply buried in it!! I'll try to get a picture of it soon. I'm probably gonna mill it into short boards about 4 feet long and leave the middle. But the mystery makes me want to look inside. I may take my splitting tools with me just in case I can't stand not knowing.

 

[discounthunter]

Walking along a street in Sofia a couple of weeks back and . . . . . .

Sorry it's not a good picture but it was night time and only had the cell phone on me.

and i bet as soon as you seen this,you laughed and said wait till i post this on the milling site,id title it "urban millers nightmare!"

 

[BobL]

and i bet as soon as you seen this,you laughed and said wait till i post this on the milling site,id title it "urban millers nightmare!"

:rockn::rockn::rockn:

 

[Streblerm]

I hit a chunk of concrete with a brand new loop of inject-a-sharp chain. It peeled the chrome and carbide bits off the corner of the cutter so that I had to sharpen more than half the cutter away to get it back.

This was the maiden voyage of my 394 and within literally ten seconds I practically ruined a brand new chain. Thank goodness for the NT grinder.

 

[billstuewe]

This is actually not a bad saw log---you can SEE the concrete. It's when the stuff is buried 8" inside the log that it gets FUN