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Was helping my Dad mill up this huge pecan tree we dropped this summer and are just now getting to. Middle of the woods... but 50 years ago it was somebody's front yard. We found their clothesline hook, along with a few other things they left us in that tree. Not 2 inches from that hook we hit a 10d nail, and right next to that I sliced through two lead .22 bullets in the same pass. Sheeeeeesh. No I did not have my metal detector with me as I should have. Only good thing is I hit it with the csm, just had to swap out chains. If I had ran into that with the Ripsaw, toast one blade for sure.
We wanted 8 inch wide quartersawn boards, so milled an 8 x 24 inch cant with the csm:
This is what I found about 50 years deep into that tree. Sliced through another nail and two .22 bullet slugs also.
Some days are diamonds, some days are stone. I did end up with about 200 ft of quartersawn pecan boards though. All but 2 boards were FAS grade so not complaining.
We wanted 8 inch wide quartersawn boards, so milled an 8 x 24 inch cant with the csm:
This is what I found about 50 years deep into that tree. Sliced through another nail and two .22 bullet slugs also.
Some days are diamonds, some days are stone. I did end up with about 200 ft of quartersawn pecan boards though. All but 2 boards were FAS grade so not complaining.