One thing you don't want to hit in a log

[huskyhank]

is a motorcycle chain...........

They are really tough on your chainsaw chains.

I cut this sycamore back in the spring and just drug it home the other day.
It was about 30" at the butt. Got about half way down the log on the first cut and things went bad.

I tried to cut the log around the metal and take some short slabs but hit the motorcycle chain again with the second saw.

My chains have to go see Mr. Grinder now.

 

[hanniedog]

Bet that made the air turn blue in more ways than one.

 

[mikeb1079]

yikes!
how do you suppose that got embedded in the tree? they wrapped it around the trunk back in the day?
sorry to hear that...

 

[TraditionalTool]

Just think what the guy on the motorcycle though when he hit the tree on his motorcycle?

 

[820wards]

is a motorcycle chain...........

They are really tough on your chainsaw chains.

I cut this sycamore back in the spring and just drug it home the other day.
It was about 30" at the butt. Got about half way down the log on the first cut and things went bad.

I tried to cut the log around the metal and take some short slabs but hit the motorcycle chain again with the second saw.

My chains have to go see Mr. Grinder now.

I hit a nail in a log about 5" in, but a chain.... That's bad!

jerry-

 

[Deprime]

WOW!! That stinks.

 

[olyman]

seems them bike chains, are as the old saying goes,, are harder than the hubs of hell..ive hit railroad spikes[howd they get there]??? shingle nails??? not hit a glass insulator,YET--tho some have showed when smaller chnks got split!!!!

 

[corsair4360]

Bad things in a log

I found a concrete form stake (about 1" in diameter steel rod) in a big california live oak "stump". Apparently it had been put in the tree through a hole not long before my chain found it since it was not rusted. Made a mess out of a new skip tooth chain loop. The people hired to remove the tree had refused to take the last 5 feet of the stump claiming to many nails. I only found one nail in the whole stump, but it was a big one.

 

[Biker Dude]

So what was your "chain reaction"?
:jester:

 

[Can8ianTimber]

Here is another thing you don't want to find in a tree. It took about a half dozen sharpenings and way to many hours to finally get it to where I could have the stump ground.

The concrete extended down another 12" into the stump.

 

[pointer]

fence post

I hit a 8ft fence post last weekend. It destroyed 4 teeth and broke the chain.

 

[bobsreturn]

A friend of mine had a tree lopper cut some rot of a mango tree . he filled the hole with ??? would you believe concrete , told him to get the guy back in a few years ,let him find it !. best i did was a small fire brick in a mango fork that cost me . wheres my rock detector ???barb wire in burls thats expensive too , but we keep on cheers Bob :greenchainsaw:

 

[rarefish383]

Great pic. I think I started a thread in the chainsaw forum once, hoping to get pix like this on stuff you've hit in trees, and didn't get much action. When I was a kid my Dad used to keep stuff he'd hit in trees. Civil War musket balls were fairly common, the saw would go right through them. Found one cast iron cannon ball. In a street tree in DC we hit a chainsaw file some one had stuck upright in a low crotch that later grew in. We took down a giant dead Oak tree at Mount Vernon that had a hand forged spike with an eye and piece of chain on it, I still have that one. Back in the 60's and 70's hitting concrette that was put in in the 30's, 40's, and 50's, was very common. Can't remember ever hitting a motor cycle chain though. All of the stuff Dad had wasn't hit though, alot was found splitting the wood later, Joe.

 

[belgian]

I hit a nail in a log about 5" in, but a chain.... That's bad!

jerry-

Roller chain pins are of hardened steel, nails are soft steel, so I think the OP saw some nice blue sparks.

I hit barbed wire so far. Not good...,grrrrr.