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

[stihl 440]

hit

I've hit nails,spikes,fence wire,staples,fence insulator, and bullets. Not the easiest thing on a chain.

 

[ChuckinOhio]

Actually found an embossed metal sign in a cottonwood that said "NO TRESPASSING HUNTING OR WOOD CUTTING" My buddy still has it, he saw it first.

Chuck

 

[Treetom]

I hit a brake drum in a quad-trunk red oak while grinding the stump.

 

[Treetom]

Forgot this one. I believe it's an old clothesline hook buried in a red oak. Never found it til I planed the wood down to build a bed. It just exposed the metal on the last pass. Planer is still sharp.

 

[berryman70]

Here in maple syrup country, I've run into a lot spiles (taps) in sugar maple. also the usual barb wire, nails & horse shoes. HATE THAT WHEN THAT HAPPENS

 

[jonseredbred]

Racoons (plural). Blood soaked sawdust seems like it flies for miles into oncoming traffic................

 

[dutch]

large old bones in hollow tree

 

[RiverRat2]

Bats Live in Nest?????

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

I thought they hung upside down in Caves :monkey:

Galvanized, steel Pipe in the center of a Silver leafed Maple about 36" DBH,
28" bar buried on the 460 mag when it was new and it stopped it cold,,,, I thought something broke????? and it did a cutter caught the inside of end of pipe,,,,,,, and just stopped it in its tracks,,,,, Upon further investigation
found the end of the pipe.............

 

[Spotted Owl]

1925 North Dakota license plate and a 1922 North Dakota license plate are probably the neatest things.

Also found a cedar arrow shaft with an old odsidian broadhead 8" below the bark to the end of the broken arrow piece. A home spun 2 or 3# sledge head you could still see the lathe marks in the rust the threaded handle was busted off. Elk horn tips about 5 foot up an old fir about 3" below bark. Found a bandsaw blade I think about 8" from the tip of the teeth to the back of the blade, Found it on the up hill cut while face cuttin a 28" alder. Also found a 20hardnose bar and chain in an old maple she was healed just enough so you couldn't see it any more with out looking very very close found that in an up hill cut also. Then just all the other stuff like rail spikes, fence, staples, bullets, nails, bird nests and that type stuff.

Owl

 

[oldsaw]

Almost got a frog once.

Mark

 

[ChuckinOhio]

A one legged Mexican girl

Oooops wrong chat room

 

[Dok]

A shovel completely buried inside a water oak.
Brad

 

[Erick]

An old Iron flowerpot hanger in the center of a 28" maple, tore up 4 chains until I found the ends of it. Burned it out of the round and it now hangs in my garage.

 

[musch]

A civil war soldier, mummified.

:hmm3grin2orange:

 

[mattinky]

My Dad & I cut down a big hollow Oak next to an old house one day and it was full of old beer bottles

 

[ropensaddle]

just about anything

like all of I have hit it; once i was jump cutting large limb to miss barb
fence limb was hollow distorted and declining , made undercut started
top cut limb seemed electrified sparks really flew, pulled out saw, chain gone decided to burn through to find hollow been filled with concrete!!!!

that cut blew beets!!! I have been using metal detector lately to save on chain; and coins not yet but hopeful



:deadhorse:

 

[RiverRat2]

Heh heh heh!!!!!

My Dad & I cut down a big hollow Oak next to an old house one day and it was full of old beer bottles

My kind of tree!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[dieseldodge]

Cut down a 42" red oak that was mostly hollow, except for the concrete post that was in the center. Dulled up three chains getting it flushed.

 

[tumbleweed]

i pulled a hotwheels dump truck out of a void in a 3' wide maple,it was in about a foot deep,so it had been there a while.it was in ok shape too untill i hit it with the saw!

 

[hornett22]

i hit a chunk of granite .................

about 6 feet up from the base of an elm.my buddy hit an old leaf spring in a sugar maple.