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  1. 17th September 2015, 09:54 PM #1
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    Default Surprises in timber

    We go through a lot of American timber at work and every now and then we find a bullet embedded in a board, so when the boss saw a small bit of metal in a piece of White Ash he thought nothing of it... until he tried to remove it. After digging about 20mm deep and with the aid of some vice grips, he removed this:
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    It's a stellite (carbide?) tipped bandsaw tooth about 2mm thick. I'll bet whoever was running the mill that day had to change their trousers after that, they might need a new blade as well

    Anyone else found something that shouldn't have been there?
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    Incredible find. That would take some doing
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    Found a number of BB slugs in a suburban silky oak. I guess the kids had a bit of target practice.
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    Quarter of a C1900 brick about 70mm below the surface of 250mm dia limb I was chopping up with a chainsaw, sparks instead of sawdust, closely followed by chain shedding about half it's teeth.
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    1" gal pipe 300mm inside an english oak. Not so good for the chainsaw.
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    I seen lots of shotgun pellets in walnut.

    Found some barbed wire the other week that messed up my chain while cutting firewood >:/
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    Me, I found some fencing pliers about 100mm 'into' a crotch. One day I hope to strike it lucky and find myself something like this...
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