d@mn metal

[bwalker]

I was bucking up some cull logs for fire wood from a job we are woking on when all of sudden the saw jumped slightly and then begun to cut very poorly. I finished off the cut then took a look at the chain. It was shot and it was a new loop at that. Turns out the log had a metal bar in it that was about the size of a three cell mag lite. God knows how it got there.

 

[MasterBlaster]

I bet you just put a new chain on, too. That allways sucks!

 

[Wade Huggins]

Yeah hitting wire or rock is always a bummer. I have cut through nails, barb wire I cut through a horseshoe once and large piece of sandstone. I mean I cut into all these jewels making stump cuts while logging in the woods over the last twelve years and it always seemed that I had a new or nearly new chain on at the time. Oh well just have to grin and go on..........Wade

 

[glens]

You're lucky you got off so cheap.&nbsp; With a new chain, at least there's only the cost of the chain lost, and not that <i>plus</i> a lot of your time and careful attention spent caressing it with files.

Glen

 

[bwalker]

Glens, I would use those words to describe anything I do with a file. More like hack and slash. Although since I have been working in the woods for the last few eeks my filing has improved by leaps and bounds.

 

[cbfarmall]

Got a bunch of oaks that have grown around the barbed wire fence attached to it. At least they're all in a line. I can just sight along the trees. If I ever had to fall them, I'd either have to place the cut 5 feet up or flush cut it. When I was cutting up a fallen treetop, I didn't notice that it had landed in a pile of old fencing till I saw a spark.

Too bad cuss words don't resharpen a chain.

Chris B.

 

[geofore]

Wade/fences

Old topo maps and pics from terraserver can sometimes give you a good idea where the old fences were. Old platt maps or find an oldtimer who lives in the area and ask if he remembers where the fences were, they might just have pics of the old fences. If you find an odd looking pieces of barbed wire, there are folks out there that collect them. I even found a girl in Texas that collects square nails, sent her a few pounds of them for her museum. I missed out on the square nails that were used to build a house in Carnegie about 1864, they went to a bonfire before I could get them. Beautiful hand made nails, like a piramid tapered out to 4"s. The cut nails are hard on the chains because they are hard and they were bent over to hold the wire to give you more of a target to hit. Most times we'd leave the stumps at 4 1/2' for some one to come flush cut later. There were crews that would take the hardwood tops, culls and stumps for the charcoal plant.

 

[Jacob J.]

Glens is right, just a chain is cheap in a situation like that. My buddy was bucking oak ( Husky 288 ) and hit an old railroad spike and it BROKE the pto side of the crank clean off.

 

[tony marks]

bud my mag is 2 cell . a 3 cell is the big ones i guess. now that is a hunk of metal.i to would wonder how something like that found its way into a log.
probably a pin from some old piece of logging equipment.we just dont know whats aroud the been huh. coulda been some ol blasting caps or somethin.
gotta tell u the mobile syn mix really is a better way. in my opinion.

 

[Wade Huggins]

Most times you can tell if their is wire in the tree so you cut below or above the wire depending on whats safest for you. I need to get my digital camera fixed and try posting some pictures again. Down in the barn I have two nothces that I have cut over the years with a nail layin flush with the top of the notch. You can see the nail from head to point its like I just grazed them both, old horseshoe nails. There pretty neat, anyway take care all Wade

 

[SilverBlue]

And that’s why a metal detector pays for itself, plus you can sometimes find enough change to pay for a resharpening

 

[ClearH20Scott]

I found some barbed wire with the 357 yesterday, I know where
most of the old fence lines are but, I still find it where I don't think
I will. I've been pulling it out for a couple of years, with no end in
sight yet.

 

[max2cam]

At first glance here it looks like a perfect fir, spruce, pine, tamerack, ash, oak, popple, and maple woods and swamp wilderness. But running through the woods and through the swamp and across the river are old barbed wire fences. They are ancient and mostly buried in the dirt, but they used trees for fence posts and some of those trees still stand -- with wire in them.

I notice the tree will sometimes warn you by leaving a growth where it healed itself around the wire. Since the fences were run in straight lines, I know when I'm in the danger zone.

Also gotta watch for big spikes left by deer hunters building tree stands and using big spikes for climbing purposes.

Bad medicene.

 

[Weatherby]

Your chain must be pretty good to go through a piece of metal that big. Any idea what type of metal it was? The wrost thing is around old home sites, were people placed metal objects in the crotch of two trees, and then grew around it. Ive run into old plow blades and other farm implements in these areas.

 

[bwalker]

Weatherby, It looks like it was a implement part. It was iron, approximately 12" long. and around1/4 thick. BTW the mag lite comment was in refferance to its length.

 

[SWI Don]

Up around Audobon IA there is a park with an entire plow in an old oak tree. It's in a park along side the highway. I remember stopping there when I was a kid and you could only see the tip of it. I believe it is completely buried now. Not something I want to find with a saw.

Don

 

[Tree Machine]

Metal in trees, always a bad thing

Grrrr. -TM-