What Is The Strangest Thing You Have Hit In A Tree?

[NeTree]

I'd have to say a Nextel i1000... about 45 feet up an Ailanthus.

(If you've ever owned one, it's no wonder it got chucked... HIGH and FAR...)

 

[gunrac]

Ya, just last week I was taking down a fair size Catawba. Roughly 34" at base. I got into some fence, [ no visable sign ] just glad I didn't hit a hidden post. Done a high set with grinder, got it down just below ground level. All at once I heard that nasty sound, found a broken off post. Then on the other side I seen where the wood was a little discolored, found the line marker there.

 

[Stumper]

Catalpa. Catawba, is an Amerindian tribe. Cutting down indigenous people is considered bad form. :angel:

 

[WRW]

Catalpa. Catawba, is an Amerindian tribe. Cutting down indigenous people is considered bad form. :angel:

Coulda been a grape vine.

 

[Stumper]

Coulda been a grape vine.

Bill, True-but cutting down a 34" diameter grapevine would be criminal.

 

[Al Smith]

I did cut through a bats nest in a big soft maple ,rather odd, full of hybernating bats.

 

[gunrac]

Sorry stumper, I was on a fishing sight that morning checking ice condition near Catawba State park on Lake Erie, just a quick slip.
Ron

 

[ozflea]

Kinda reminds me of a demo i done many many years ago in the Watagan forest near Cessnock in the Hunter Valley. I had been invited to demo a Mc SP81 with a 28" bar and chain to some loggers the timber was what we call black butt and the tree was to be felled ( it was big ) so after starting the cut and getting far enough in on the scarf the bloody timber expanded and trapped the chain and bar. Problem. How the dickens to get said bar and chain back out of the cut for no matter what i tried it only got worse and the bar and chain was attached to a brand new saw and my boss was not going to be impressed. Anyway after much swearing and polite use of the English language the powerhead was freed from the Bar and Chain thank goodness i carried a tool kit in my truck.
So one day in the future some unlucky logger might find a very rusty bar and chain from Bob's blunder and the loggers had a good laugh at my expense, plus on my arrival back at the shop Bob had a lot of explaining to do.
But i survived.

Bob.

 

[hobby climber]

Fence, nails, rocks, and an old garden hose nozzle in the center of a 40yr old beech tree. The only other thing I hit with a saw in a tree was G*d D*m BEES BEES BEES ......................................etc!!! Man do I hate bees!

 

[Tree Machine]

Oddball places

How do you explain hitting nails way up here?

 

[Stumper]

Treehouses.

 

[Tree Machine]

Fence post and fencing

This was whack. As soon as I hit something, I shoulda walked from this stump. But Nooooooooo. I had just rocked out this takedown and was ahead of schedule. The stump was only up to my thigh. If I could get it down to ALAP, I am finished.

Well, we all know how the last 10% of the job can sometimes take 90 % of the time? Sometimes it can be worse. This is still hard for me to believe, looking back, but things did not go well for the Treeguy. I got it. The last two cuts on a stump this size should take mebbe 2 minutes at most. Can you say 4-1/2 hours?

Pardon the file size, I had to string a whole lot of images together and crunch heavily.

 

[Tree Machine]

For those of you who mebbe couldn't run the video, or chose to skip past it, this single shot sorta sums it all up,

 

[056kid]

I hit an old iron once. I have also cut a snake into 3 pieces.

 

[Gravely Grinch]

I took out a nest of flying squirrels one day. Talk about a weird looking critter!

 

[woodshop]

nice little video Tree... like your choice of music, nice touch. Bit small on my screen, going to try and d/l it and play it bigger mode.

 

[greg carr]

removing a sugar maple I noticed a rubber smell and the chips were black. the tree was hollow and someone had cut car tires stretched them out lenghtwise and lined the inside of the tree with them.then they filled the rest of the hollow with wax.what a mess,rubber and melting wax every where.
also the usual metal including bullets and buckshot-from trees in downtown boston.
A helpful son of a client also plugged all the ant holes in a tree that was coming down with two boxes of ten penny nails.he was very proud of himself.

 

[Ny finest]

I was removing a 50in red maple from a backyard.Scheduled two days for the job but somehow by 4:30pm I was almost done-just a 8ft butt to drop.Well it turns out that the tree was actually 4or5 grown together and in the center it was full of rocks.From 8ft to ground level.After wreching 4 chain i figured all this out.I ended up having to leave the stump.
Also I found a bag of coins in a white oak's rotten crotch.I was assorted coin all over 100yrs old from australia and gb.The homeowner was there when I was blocking up the wood and found it and insisted they werehis since the tree was on his property.I offered him 100 bucks for them but no go.I still wishI had those just because it was kinda neat.

 

[Tree Machine]

A helpful son of a client also plugged all the ant holes in a tree that was coming down with two boxes of ten penny nails.he was very proud of himself.

I'm very proud of him myself.

NY, you definitely could have done without the rocks in the center core. Ughhhh. Amazing how you can be on top of the world, reveling in how big you're kickin butt, and then time comes to a stand still for a few hours.

 

[shokidq]

Been splitting a beech this week riddled with nails, cables & washing lines on my 3rd chain and only half way done