Things you've found in wood

[Mike Van]

A poor pic, but all this was in one walnut log. Bullets, shotgun slug, nails - Wonder the tree didn't die from lead poisoning?

 

[forcedintoit]

found a exhaust/intake valve out of a large motor. Think it was hammered in for a treestep a long time ago. (it sucked)

 

[mschoff]

I have found a insulator and I also found a screw in hook 5 in long

 

[Lignum]

Old Eye Bolts...lots of random nails from trees used as fence posts...rocks...

 

[deeker]

The wrench is a new one. Would have destroyed my band mill blade.

By the way, as you hit a power line insulator it makes a neat and loud purrrrrring sound as it destroyed the blade.

One customer, bought the blades in advance and had me cut up a couple of camp site juniper trees. Poured on Epoxy after each thick (mantel) slab. Looks great. Most bullets only dulled the blade. A couple .30 cal Armor Piercing bullets.....on the other hand....ruined the blade.

Yard trees, with the always available...."there are NO nails or metals in these logs"....even though the metal detector sings the national anthem.

 

[mantis]

Talk about bad luck

 

[keith66]

i have found quite a few golf balls. i should take a picture the next time i find one.

 

[berry5]

the best thing we found was a honey bees nest it was cold the bees wouldnt move. man was that some good stuff i eat till i got sick. last week i found walnuts in the v of a tree they were in the tree really deep i bet they had been their for 25 years i saved the piece for my boy, i really wanted to eat them. :monkey: must be always hungry when i find stuff

 

[vwboomer]

It wasn't me, and a guy at work told me about it today, but he said he read an article 'while back' about a guy cutting down a tree (he thought upper WI) and there was a dead guy in it from the 1800's. He apparently crawled in a hole in the tree further up and fell all the way down.

Anyone have info on this? A quick google turned up nothing relevant.

 

[Buckethead]

Hmmm...some eye-bolts...one big one with a hunk of heavy cable still attached. An 8" nail, a smooth oblong stone just a little smaller than an Ostrich egg, and an American Eagle 180gr. .45 ACP copperjacketed ball round....okay maybe I was the one that put it there

 

[23putts]

I cut a black snake in half when falling a tree one day. It was inside a hollow part of the tree.

 

[thejdman04]

Only barb wire and nails for me

 

[slinger]

I found a horseshoe with my old 029, thorns (locust), tire chain from a truck, bees

 

[November Wolf]

One time when I was cutting, I found a sack full of money inside the hollow of the tree. $20,000 in there :jawdrop: .

















Just jokeing but it would of been nice, :hmm3grin2orange:

 

[Dan_IN_MN]

Not lead poisoning...but from gas and oil poisoning!

A poor pic, but all this was in one walnut log. Bullets, shotgun slug, nails - Wonder the tree didn't die from lead poisoning?

Not lead poisoning...but from gas and oil poisoning!

 

[kodiakyardboy]

My friend in northern MN has a lawn mower about 6' up in a tree. It grew where the engine used to be and lifted it off the ground eventually. There also is a Model A Ford near St. Paul where a tree grew through the car. It is in the city and has been a landmark near my Grandmothers house as long as I can remember. My dad said he remembers it from when he was a kid. Eventually it will lift off the ground. I wish I had taken pictures before I moved.

 

[skinnykid02]

never found nothing yet.

 

[polexie]

Front end of a bicycle. Wire, fence pole, cast iron fence. Concrete, pipe. Heard a story of a WW II grenade in a tree in Arnhem. Guys were lucky.

Lex

 

[KD57]

Other than the normal things mentioned above, a railroad spike, axe head, and a cast iron foot from an old bathtub. Later, after hitting th bathtub foot we discovered we had cut into an old homestead area, as we found lots of junk w/ the metal detector, and a big flat rock w/ the date "1816" and "JB" carved into it. There was a rock fence that appeared to be some sort of a backyard area. This was in a bunch of cedar and not visible from the outside.
There was an old grave marker, but the carving was not legible. We cleared around it and left it be, it's on property I own.

 

[blackdiesel]

i had a big hollow white oak on my processor and about 5 or 6 cuts into it i found a 4 or 5 foot black snake. i didnt cut it in too, i didnt even get it caught in the splitter, i was just settin there lookin at me after i split the stick that it was in. kind of like, hmmm where'd the tree go?

i took ahold of his tail while he was trying to crawl down and threw him against the truck, then cut his head off.

Kind of scared me, being as how usually the only live things that i get out of trees are ants