Tools in Chip Pile

[newb]

I've lost a hand saw in my chip pile. Has anyone had any success using a metal detector finding tools in their pile, and if so what kind did you use. I have a $50 one that doesn't work. Pete

 

[John Paul Sanborn]

I could let you try my $200 one that I use for logs (standard beachcomber style)...

If I came up to work with you

I've used it for tools in the snow and leaves and weeds, but not a chip pile.

 

[newb]

John, How deep in the wood has yours found metal?

 

[deevo]

I've lost a hand saw in my chip pile. Has anyone had any success using a metal detector finding tools in their pile, and if so what kind did you use. I have a $50 one that doesn't work. Pete

Get out the big pitch fork! lol! Good luck....any snow down there yet?

 

[newb]

Your cold air has gotten here, not the snow yet.

 

[John Paul Sanborn]

John, How deep in the wood has yours found metal?

Several inches, Jerry Smith used it on a homestead clearing and was shocked at the amount of metal he found with it.

 

[deevo]

Your cold air has gotten here, not the snow yet.

Its coming! people are out sledding around here already!

 

[juststumps]

I've lost a hand saw in my chip pile. Has anyone had any success using a metal detector finding tools in their pile, and if so what kind did you use. I have a $50 one that doesn't work. Pete

is the time involved looking for a hand saw, worth the price of getting a new one ?????? it has to be one expensive saw, to have to go get a metal detector for !!! JMHO

 

[John Paul Sanborn]

is the time involved looking for a hand saw, worth the price of getting a new one ?????? it has to be one expensive saw, to have to go get a metal detector for !!! JMHO

Silky Zubats are around $50

 

[John Paul Sanborn]

Its coming! people are out sledding around here already!

1-4 inches by mid morning!

 

[juststumps]

Silky Zubats are around $50

i guess its about who is paying, for what....

if the guy is working for you, and is on the clock , and it take him 2 hours to go get a metal detector, come back in the company truck and find a $50 handsaw... its not worth it

if it his own saw, and he goes after work to find it, on his dime, maybe...

things are tight, just had the pep talk from the boss.....so a guy figuring he's going to save the company money... went out and bought a wheeel barrow un assembled !!!!

home depot charges $10 to put it together....the guy saved the company $10, and took 2 hours to put it together....was not the best money saving move !!! JMHO

 

[John Paul Sanborn]

I have a metal detector to check logs for metal. It has saved a number of chains, found carabiners and throwballs in the weeds...

Just another tool.

 

[snowyman]

I should have bought one years ago, endless uses for one.

Like when you drop the one & only screw and it disappears & you spend the next hour crawling around with a magnet.

Or, saving you repairing copper water pipes put in the wrong place.

Or, grinding up stuff like this:

 

[groundsmgr]

I never used one but it probably would of saved the blades on a cbi unit that we used to turn our chips and logs into bio fuel:greenchainsaw:

 

[tomtrees58]

i have learned the hard way do not put any thing in the back of the truck tom trees