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  1. 04-27-2015, 12:17 AM #1
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    Ya the joys of urbran trees

    Yesterday I was given a nice looking truck of Pacific Madrone.
    As I was processing it I hit the joy of urban trees.
    A 20p nail. The head was a good 1/2inch (5mm) inside tree, so the nail had been there sometime.
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    Making sawdust mostly, sometimes I get something else, but that is more by accident then design.
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    OUCH!!! Did we ruin a few chainsaw teeth?
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  4. 04-27-2015, 7:50 AM #3
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    Ralph.........I feel your pain......About 3 years ago I cut through a barn spike in a catalpa tree......ended my day of cutting.
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    If you cut FOG wood and haven't had this experience you have been VERY lucky.
    Here is an example of what I found with my chain saw in a local large Maple.
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    Just this week I found one with my band saw,
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    I think this equates nicely to wood turning as well . . . . .
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    Barn yard trees are worse.... Found a 1/2 inch spike about 18 inches inside a 4 foot diameter myrtle, and that was just the beginning......

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    A found two more today... after using my metal detector that DIDN'T find them.

    I didn't mind the large Aluminum "screw" I found in a Pear tree a few years ago. That didn't stop any tool.
    Making sawdust mostly, sometimes I get something else, but that is more by accident then design.
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    My Dad was milling some east coast hickory and found a lead slug deep in the wood. Since it was lead, he finished processing it outside so he didn't breath it, but ended up leaving it in the bookcase he was making. Nice piece of probable history now featured in the bookshelf!
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    Two years ago I found a horse shoe in a cherry piece that took the whole front of my coreing cutter off. Needless to say I was very,very unhappy and used those words that we try not to use. I'll try to find pictures???
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  10. 04-28-2015, 7:43 AM #9
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    Quote Originally Posted by Jon McElwain View Post
    My Dad was milling some east coast hickory and found a lead slug deep in the wood. Since it was lead, he finished processing it outside so he didn't breath it, but ended up leaving it in the bookcase he was making. Nice piece of probable history now featured in the bookshelf!
    A few years ago I was turning a large ash bowl, and found stains following the grain vertically. Eventually I noticed a bright spot - a shotgun pellet. The tree had been hit with a full burst, right in the area my wood came from, 30-40 years before it was cut.
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