Metal in trees
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treeslayer2003
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the bigger outfits have metal detectors...........they really don't like to find any.
I know they dont take yard trees but thats kind of subjective. I remove trees inside the woods on property edges a lot. And we clear lots that are near other lots. I'd love to sell more but i dont want to damage any saw blades at the mill.
treeslayer2003
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when you start messing with trees, you'll start to notice what don't look right.........cut that crap off before you load it up. they don't like holes or dog legs either.
if you send in good logs they will always buy from you.
if you send in good logs they will always buy from you.
Yup, metal is bad... if your at all concerned lob off the first 10 or so feet, usually safe there.
Or buy yourself a hand held metal detector, a 190 or so its worth it if you save out just one decent log.
Or buy yourself a hand held metal detector, a 190 or so its worth it if you save out just one decent log.
Mills definitely have metal detectors. When you're running $5k+ bands or circular mills, you bet you want to avoid foreign objects in the wood. Here's a very cool series of videos from Horizon Wood Products. They are an awesome family run business that manufactures some of the most spectacular Eastern hardwood lumber you will ever see. Cool thing is, they are not to aloof to sell me (and other small timers) orders as small as a single log or even a single special board. http://www.finewoodworking.com/how-to/video/horizon-sawmill-tour-introduction.aspx
For the small time miller, a simple metal detector, like the ones you see people using on the beach, will work well. Also, recognize how to identify the black metal staining in the endgrain of the log. Sure fire sign of badness within.
To bad not all F.O.D. is metallic. Ingrown ceramic insulators from electric fence, stones, etc. will elude event the best metal detector.
For the small time miller, a simple metal detector, like the ones you see people using on the beach, will work well. Also, recognize how to identify the black metal staining in the endgrain of the log. Sure fire sign of badness within.
To bad not all F.O.D. is metallic. Ingrown ceramic insulators from electric fence, stones, etc. will elude event the best metal detector.
A hardwood mill I sell to has a whole pile of metal they have found in logs on display, some they found the hard way haha. Being Vermont is a sugaring Mecca you should see the pile of taps they have found
Frank Savage
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Metal in wood-hmm, and that being said, you have no major battlegrounds there. Where I grew up, 3-5´ beech trees@ 150´ tall are metal infested from bottom to most of the tops. Schrapnels, AP rounds, bullets of all kinds, bomb and mortar shell fragments... Those pesky Katuscha rockets are fine, they are usualy visible with their lenght. I´ve seen portions which were better to sell at scrapyard for "dirty metal" price than to have them at lumberyard.
But all in all, until the mill does not have x-ray it is still a kind of roulette. Smaller pieces under 1-1,5 ft of wood are quite hard to detect magneticaly, especially in wet wood.
But all in all, until the mill does not have x-ray it is still a kind of roulette. Smaller pieces under 1-1,5 ft of wood are quite hard to detect magneticaly, especially in wet wood.
