Milling 'Hall of Shame'

[wills-mill]

Post a photo of the nasty things that you find hiding in timber!

 

Today's effort, a GPO/ British Telecom special. I missed it by about 3mm, and only spotted the strands of wire when I'd turned the log and brushed some dust off . The poor old chainsaw rattled on the bracket a few times

[Big J]

Ooooh, ya beauty!

 

Usually you like to think that softwood cutting is going to be free of heavy metal.

 

I don't have a photo of it in the log, but I did have a ripple sycamore log two years ago that was riddled with metal around the middle. More than a dozen nails, 24 inches of chain link chain and worst of all several Victorian wrought iron climbing spikes (the heaviest of which weighed over 10 ounces). Expensive log!

[codlasher]

Well spotted!

codlasher

[badger22]

That would be a GPO bracket, tree fixings were quite common many years ago.

However bt engineers should not be fixing to trees. They can be quite high in the tree as engineers have to get a minimum height of 5.5 meter across roads.

[alex_w]

looks quite attractive mounted on the square plaque!! you should sand it up and use it as a coat hook

[wills-mill]

It's not my log, but I might I might have to claim it for my personal Hall of Shame (eh Dave?) :)

 

Thanks Badger- I think most people today wouldn't know 'GPO' which is why I said BT

[Jake_Mooney@Wood-Mizer]

 

Here's a fun one we found when visiting a WM3500 customer in the Czech Republic last week. :-)

[Jake_Mooney@Wood-Mizer]

 

This is a box of 'log obstructions' from the same customer. The operators collect everything they find in logs, mostly nails, but occasionally more interesting finds.

[tommer9]

Found in a huge ilex in exeter (remember that one Gibbon?)

 

 

 

[wills-mill]

Probably my best historic haul. 9 inch pins set up at about 25ft up.

 

 

Jake, one of my customers brought an old beam in for re-cutting. I found 2 .303 bullets in it, and he's now found another bullet in an adjacent beam. Someone has fired 3 shots in a tight group inside a small room, it's a strange one!