Lucky for me anyway, missed it by just a few inches with a new chain. 
Lucky horseshoe -
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Yes, that is lucky!
Ain't ever hit a horseshoe, but I've hit all kinds of metal in trees. Best way to get me aggravated quick.
One I can't figure out. I dropped a dead ash, probably only 8" in diameter. When I bucked it, I discovered that I cut clean through a .22 bullet that was parallel to the tree's grain, almost in the center, vertical. Cut it cleanly in half, a perfect circle. How that bullet came to be in there, I'll never know.
I haven't had any of the previous poster's misfortunes, luckily yet.
I haven't had any of the previous poster's misfortunes, luckily yet.
Prolly a squirrel hunter. I've cut through some bullets while milling, they generally don't dull your chain like steel.
I've seen those in my travels as well, but this one was in the same direction of the tree's grain, perfectly in line and parallel to the trees grain.
Glad it was lead
Glad it was lead
Man that's a gnarly piece of wood!
Usually the first cut with a new chain too!
This was an old sugar maple, past it's prime, starting to rot on the back side. The shoe was near the butt of the log.
Several years ago, dad found a ceramic insulator inside a tree. There wasn't enough of the chain left to sharpen. We've found several 22 bullets (firewood) over the years.
I took on a large Walnut removal and when I got down to the lower trunk it had concrete inside from the bottom up about 15 feet, I had to pay an excavator company to take the whole trunk away because the saws would not work. It cost me so much, I barely broke even ! This was years ago when I first started out, now I would have insisted they pay for the extra hauling. don't get ripped off!
Sugar Maple came to mind when I saw it, great fuelwood!
thenne1713
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and contract wording to exclude same if they refuse the extra expense always a great idea.
Tim in NY
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I cut down a smallish ash tree a few years ago and my neighbor (the land owner) took it for firewood. I told him to pay close attention, as a bow hunter had left some screw in foot pegs in the tree. i should have cut them all out - he cut right into one and ruined a chain.
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