Thread: Has anyone seen this happen before?

Are them baby snakes?

Can we have some background info; like for instance is that what came out of a thicknesser outfeed?

Are they the dreaded 'silver knots' as found by planers and thicknessers?

Decorative, but very unkind to HSS and TCT blades!

Alan...

Yes they did come out of a thicknesser and Alan you are close but they are not the silver knots you are thinking of
Anyone else want a guess before I show the next picture?

is this some sort of mineralisation?

Lead bullets?

Originally Posted by woodPixel

is this some sort of mineralisation?

Lead bullets?

no that is not it

OK long enough for a dramatic pause. What the ---- is it.
Regards
John

Is it telegraph wiring?

Initially I didn’t know what it was until I dug it out

Looks quite bullet like to me
Regards
John

Cool . Unless that's the last bit of wood for a special place on a job .
Then I would be saying something else ! Starting with F.

Ive had a few of those .
What I think was a 303 in some Blackwood .
A full copper jacket in some Euro Oak . Possibly Military ? WW2 ??
And a pair of shotgun pellets in some US Cherry .

I saw a picture of the opposite a while back .
A shot gun that had been grown over by a tree.
And another where someone discovered a dead dry dog inside a tree .
It got stuck chasing something up the hollow middle and stayed there !

Rob

Ok, but what's the pale blue stuff and the green stuff in the original picture?

The green thing could be a larva inside a hatched egg implanted in the hole.
The pale blue could be lead tannate caused by tree sap dissolving some lead and copper.
Lead compounds are usually black or (mostly) white but some copper compounds are blue (eg copper sulphate)
This would certainly have killed the larva.
I'm surprised there is no resin but there does seem to have been some small attempt at healing before the hole totally closed over?

Or maybe I am again barking up the wrong tree.

True there was no resin around the projectile, I didn’t think about that. We bought about 600 lineal metres of that size and there was four bullets in total all together in two stick so assume someone was doing some target practice on that tree
The colours must of been a reaction with the tannin? When I first spotted it I had no idea what it was

So it IS a bullet after all? What about this - picked up in post #5, and then knocked back as the right answer?

Originally Posted by woodPixel

is this some sort of mineralisation?

Lead bullets?

Originally Posted by Beardy

no that is not it

Originally Posted by FenceFurniture

So it IS a bullet after all? What about this - picked up in post #5, and then knocked back as the right answer?

I only noticed that when I posted the last pic, not sure if the post was amended and added or I may just have missed it when I read it from my phone

My humble apologies if the error was on my part
I hope I didn’t ruin your day