Beware Stuff Inside Trees!

[adamelder]

I've encountered nails, screws, wires and small stones inside trees being milled but never as much as this.

 

The first slice caught what I thought was a small stone and blunted the chain on a 50 inch bar.

 

I thought that was it so changed chains and went for the next slice 75mm thick.

 

Hit stone again.

 

It was about 3 foot from the bottom of the trunk, right in the centre of a horse chestnut about 250 years old, 44 inches diameter.

 

The "stone" is almost like concrete but seems to be conglomerate of smaller stones that have been compressed together by the tree. I'm pretty sure concrete hadn't been invented 250 years ago.

 

I can only think that the tree maybe grew in two trunks, picked up the stones and some dirt and then the trunks grew together, lifting the stones with it.

[Steve Bullman]

Well that took the shine off the job!

[adamelder]

Well that took the shine off the job!

 

Certainly dulled the edge somewhat on two long chains! Looks like an afternoon on the Granberg grinder for me tomorrow!

[htb]

I think the roman's used a form of concrete

[treequip]

I'm pretty sure concrete hadn't been invented 250 years ago.

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The Romans had concrete

[sloth]

The Romans had concrete

Did they have it 250 years ago though?

[htb]

Did they have it 250 years ago though?

 

Who the Romans or the rest of the world

[adamelder]

The Romans had concrete

 

Well I wish they'd taken it back to Rome with them!

[sloth]

Who the Romans or the rest of the world

The Romans, it was a bad attempt at humour as they were long gone 250 years ago. Sorry!

[Stubby]

Yea but what did the Romans ever do for us then ? ........Strait roads , sanitation , running water .......Yea yea all right but apart from that what did they ever doo ? .....