Found a hidden suprise inside some bur oak :-(

[Rburg44]

Yup barbed wire got lucky and missed with chain but it was a 3 wire fence found once split wood was oak and turned it a deep dark blue color prettt wild looking

 

[fearofpavement]

Here's a recent find.

 

[Time's Standing Stihl]

Very interesting find! Sucks you lost your chain...

 

[Termite]

Hupte, do you know that Bur Oak would bring $1.40 a board foot at the stave mill ?

 

[Deleted member 83629]

i cut a forked tree before had a bur rock in the center of it. i got it cut but the chain was demolished.

 

[1project2many]

I've seen that same black discoloration around deeply imbedded barbed wire too. It turns a pretty good size area of wood black from leaching or oxidation I guess? I've been pretty lucky to avoid metal objects except in a property line big mulberry tree that sure dulled my chain quick!!!!

Iron does that, mostly in Oak. Sometimes if you're cutting from one end of the trunk you'll start seeing the blue / black stains before the iron so you'll have some warning.

I found an old square nail grown into a tree behind the house. The nail appears handmade but the tree was only about 10" dia. There was nothing else around for junk, either. I don't have a rational explanation unless the nail isn't what it appears to be.

When I was a child the town cut down a 200+ yr old Maple across from the house where I grew up. They limbed it ok but the fellow cutting the base gave up after destroying two chains about 1/2 way through. 6-8 yrs later they decided to hit the rotting butt with the loader and it snapped off. There were many, many small rocks in the hollowed center. I always figured the squirrels did it.

 

[billintx]

Fenceline tree. At least I missed the wire with the saw.

 

[mainewoods]

Any time I cut a fence line tree, or any tree I suspect has the possibility of metal in it, I use my back up saw with an old chain on it. Rather lose a chain that is worn down than a new one. They don't always look this obvious.

 

[sam-tip]

It is even worse when I hit stuff like that with the stump grinder. $30 chain seems cheap compared to grinding teeth and pockets. The pockets needed replacing anyway.

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[philoshop]

I hit a horseshoe in a tree once. Always wondered if maybe the whole horse was there at one time.

 

[coog]

Must have been a Horse Chestnut.

 

[esshup]

I didn't learn my lesson and ruined 3 chains on the same maple trunk. There must have been 12'-15' of it filled with concrete. Every time I thought I had moved far enough away I found more....

 

[hardpan]

Pipe fitter? Are you sure he isn't a tree fitter?
To me the sneaky ones are deer stands. I didn't expect to hit a 1/2" lag bolt that was 20' off the ground.

 

[isaaccarlson]

I took down a big maple in town a few years back and hit a railroad spike that had been shot into the tree by a tornado some 60 ish years ago.

 

[alleyyooper]

Lots of farmers placed metal objects like plow points and horse shoes with the idea to go get them after the work day was winding down. Many times we forgot and the tree grew around them. I have found big L shaped lag bolts in Oak trees but with the splitter and not a chain. They are common on gate insulation. Rocks end up in trees in fence lines cause they are tossed there in the fence line and if they go in a crotch OH well.
The double headed nail is used many times to install insulators for a electric fence. If the insulator breaks it is easy to just use a new nail in the reinstall.

Al

 

[hupte]

Hupte, do you know that Bur Oak would bring $1.40 a board foot at the stave mill ?

I actually called a local mill and got a price on the biggest bur oak I cut from that place. I wanna say it was about 32 inches at the big end and and about 18 inches at the small end. it was kinda oval at the small end. roughly 12ft long. the owner of the mill calculated the board feet and said it was only worth about 20 dollars, delivered. I figured it was worth more to me in firewood. I'm sure the prices are geographical, and also based on supply and demand.

 

[Termite]

I actually called a local mill and got a price on the biggest bur oak I cut from that place. I wanna say it was about 32 inches at the big end and and about 18 inches at the small end. it was kinda oval at the small end. roughly 12ft long. the owner of the mill calculated the board feet and said it was only worth about 20 dollars, delivered. I figured it was worth more to me in firewood. I'm sure the prices are geographical, and also based on supply and demand.

I got $1132 for this bur oak at American stave mill in Seymore Indiana. It was a nice tree that was dying.
It is hard to tell from the photo but about 72 feet long. I took 8 logs up last Friday. He culled two and the check was $415. And the rest was pretty rough. The average was $1.13.
I was chatting with a logger while I waited and he said he never seen prices higher.
The buyer said the log in the photo was going to France for wine barrels.

 

[Termite]

Oh, Hupte, I see the problem now you live in the socialist state of Illinois. I grew up in Peoria but I joined the Navy and got out. LOL.

 

[Hubert Hoffman]

Years ago some old farmers used to pull the crotch of a tree together with chain...usually 3/8" I tossed a piece on my splitter and kept trying to split the bastard. No matter what I did it wouldnt split. I tossed it aside for the bonfire. A few months later I finally found out why it wouldnt split. There was a chain wrapped around the trunk just below the crotch. it was embedded about 2 inches.

Jeff

yep. roached a 115d (36")chain on one of those bastard fixes a couple weeks ago.

 

[hupte]

Oh, Hupte, I see the problem now you live in the socialist state of Illinois. I grew up in Peoria but I joined the Navy and got out. LOL.

lol. the market must be high now. I cut the trees down in the middle of the summer... so prices must have changed... and btw, DON'T PICK ON THE POLITICANS IN ILLINOIS!!!!... its not nice to pick on the mentally challenged... lol.