How do you deal with metal?

[arbwork]

Posted this before and add it to this thread, found by using metal detector and saved us at least 1 blade, used in build of green oak timber framed workshop with wood and ‘find’ incorporated into building , our milling but wood supplied another for build. V. interesting post with fowler tractor, I started in the mid 60’s working weekends with a man who had 3 fowlers with American inserted tooth rack bench sawing mining and shipping dunnage blocks , brings back memories! Good luck sawing wood not metal!

 

woops I meant field marshal lovely smoke rings under pressure

[twmarriott]

theyre the same thing fowler bought the marshalls in as skids and put tracks on them.

[arbwork]

Oh that may help my thinking, the guy I worked with had 2 tracked 1 driving rack bench and the other with a boughton winch for extraction and stump pulling the 3rd wheeled one with a cross cut saw mounted on the front with a smaller winch on the back, I can remember his delight at getting a roadless fordson with an electric start that we then helped to start the others with. How times change

[delabodge]

Ive got into the habiat of getting as much bark off as possible,then jet washing the log,to remove small stones,grit etc, milling some yew yesterday,(and today,)and have come across some small nails, and these where woodland trees?

[twmarriott]

yew is relatively slow growing, but can be very long-lived, with the maximum recorded trunk diameter of 4 metres probably only being reached in about 2,000 years. The potential age of yews is impossible to determine accurately and is subject to much dispute. There is rarely any wood as old as the entire tree, while the boughs themselves often hollow with age, making ring counts impossible. There are confirmed claims as high as 5,000-9,500 years and although native yew is ntive and spread by birds is unusual in woodland its likely it was planted there as most yews generally have links with human activity, churches. so i'd expect that'd explain your nails!