Nails in timber

[BestFirewoodUK]

Metal detectors guys

I love mine

 

You wanna say you scan every log before processing it?

[treebloke]

Picture not good on phone your probably right.

 

It is Ash.

[dig-dug-dan]

Found a garden fork in the middle of an ash tree once. That mucked the saw up. Must have been used to stake the tree:001_smile:

[twistedhicap]

My dad when working im my aunties sawmill found a bill hook in a big but they had on the stenner ! apparently that was interesting also chains and wire !

 

Saw 6 foot long 5 foot diameter beach but go into a tub grinder due to the amount of rubbish in it ! it was a roadside tree and had been used since turn of dawn for posters and signs and the alike ! anywhere you tried to cut it you would find something !

[Treemoose]

You wanna say you scan every log before processing it?

 

You generally know what parts of a tree might have metal in it.

It's normaly the part between the ground and what you can reach

Your work might be different but mine is all domestic and yes I scan every tree for the first 8 feet or so 9 times out of 10 the tree will have something in it and I put a little spray paint mark so it's avoided

(yes i know it doesn't detect flint)

It saves me a lot of time anyway

[Float]

I recall a picture in FC (I think it was), a few years ago where some poor sod found a horseshoe in the middle of a tree with his saw..I think it took a bit more than a quick lick with the file to sort it out after!

[Marlin.45]

Ha, funny that. about two hours ago I was taking the remains of an old Ash trunk out of a hedge.

Wire clearly obvious going in one side and out the other.

 

Trying to judge it just right so I cut between the wires...

 

...then I hit a stone inside the trunk....

 

I did something similar a while back on the neighbours Apple tree. Ripped around 5 teeth off the chain on a buried steel petanque ball! No sharpening that puppy.

[Crazy Cutter]

I feel we have a lot more of this to come! 10 to 15 years ago hardwood planting round here used a small dia metal stake and not wood. Can't remember the manu but most estates used them. The plantations i seen over the last few years the tube has fell off but the tree has grown around the stake so beware when thinning.