Thread: Items found in tree trunks

That does look rather nasty - I vote for the version that someone hung a horseshoe on a brach of that tree and it just enveloped the shoe as it grew.

A couple of weeks ago without realising I hit a small (6mm?) coach bolt with a brand new chain. The bolt was pretty soft because the chain cut right through it, I vaguely remember a bit of a jerk and rattle, but the chain kept cutting, albeit a little slower and I couldn't work out why. I finished that slab I discovering a small silver circle shining out from two slabs. There was one tooth on the chain with a small nick in it otherwise the others were fine after a standard sharpening session.

its a nice story, but crickey it still gives me the s#%ts when i find a horse shoe in a log and anything else that shouldn't be there

I read about a guy in France who cut down a tree from a hedgerow and found a world war one helmet almost completely absorbed by the tree!

I was working up a piece of tiger maple for a gunstock, while ripping I hit a 2in x 6in bolt laying paralell to the cut and invisible in the 3 in plank. the 10 in carbide blade went about 2in into the bolt ,shed the teeth and stopped. Teeth stuck in the ceiling above the table saw. ZOUNDS

G'day.
Our Canadian breaking down saw uses 6 Foot Dia Saws. One day all the teeth flew off and imbedded in the bullet proof glass in the operators cabin. When he changed his undies, he had a look at the log. Burried in the center of it was a maddock head and an Adze head.

We used to get a lot of spikes in logs when the greenies were protesting around the north coast back in the early 80's.

Trevor; The little bear mill in Michigans Upper Peninsula, The roof looked like it had been starffed, junk in trees and a golf gourse where I worked ,the lombardy popker s were full of golf balls. You never know. Bob

Yep. We have had to re-roof the sawmill a few times due to " Star holes" in the iron...

that very same thing has happened at a few mills here in oz over the years .
i worked at the bonshaw sawmill qld/nsw border for 18 months, many moons ago and we got a few strange things in logs had one horse shoe that blew the blade to bits quite nasty that was, several gate hinges too .fencing wire ,bolts
but the most spectacular was a big cypress log that we got in special for an order of some large beams for a builder and we ran it over the spot saw and broke it down and never got a single stick of timber out of it .
it was 50 / 50 timber and lead . the tree grew not far from an old farm house an over the last hundred years or so every kid that had lived there had hung thier targets on the old tree there were no kidding thousands of lead bullets imbeded in the timber all the way to the heart.
we did cut one 12"x4"x16' off it and hung it in the mill for a talking piece but the rest went to the fire pit.
the good thing was the saw sailed through the lead no probs at all like it wasnt even there