Thread: Into Each Life a Little Rain Must Fall

Hi
OK ,.............so how did the spike get into the log?

Allan

What did it do to the blade? !!!

What a spike like that is doing in a tree in the first place boggles the mind, maybe a bit off the space shuttle or something (too high tech tho I guess).

Cement and all manner of hardware are common in house site trees...watch out for the old, forgotten hammer left setting in a crotch.

But in these days of metal detectors and safer band or carbide-tipped blades, it isn't all that big a deal...more and more "urban" forester-sawyers go into business every day.

I hit it a second time, of course with the chain saw when probing for it....but I expect that with hardware.

I was just dumb enuf to assume the upper logs were clear, as running the metal detector at each board deck requires shutting off the mill and removing hard hat and ear plugs.

I've found porcelain electrical insulators 36" deep in a 48" maple, and railroad spikes like this one are common as these woods were all laced with Shay mountain railways when the old-growth was first cut in the 1930's....this one probably held some sort of lantern or light 15' up in the tree.

I was a tree lopper for some years and I once came across a tree that was about a metre in diameter that had a piece of reinforced steel running up through the center of it. Luckily, I found it with a brand new chain and didn’t damage any of my worn out old ones.

Ouch...bet that hurt! You have my sympathy. I've burgered a handsaw by cutting into a cement patch that had been completely overgrown. Some years ago there was an article in Aust Woodwork about a bloke in Qld. who slabbed a tree and found a pocket watch that had been left in a crotch and overgrown. Luckily he was able to extract it undamaged, and incorporated it in a coffee table top. By coincidence, the watch belonged to one of my Great-grandfather's brothers.

Does this mean my grand son will find the fibre glass tape measure I'm bloody positive I put in the fork of "that" tree bout 15 years ago?

Originally posted by Bob Willson
I once came across a tree that was about a metre in diameter that had a piece of reinforced steel running up through the center of it.

Was it reinforced with a tree?

Was it reinforced with a tree?

Reinforced as in 'reo'. The stuff used for concrete.

Was the watch still keeping time?
Cheers
Barry