I usually find all kinds of hardware (screws, nails bolts) but occasionally something neat shows up. Today I found an old insulator almost into the heartwood of a 28" white oak round.
I was going to say the same thing. I found an old Foster style 12 ga slug in a round, luckily with the splitter, not a chain. I've found nails, screws, barbed wire, and ants.
I will have to go back over to me buddy's house but we were cutting on a red oak that had a spring tooth harrow 3 feet off the ground!
well in Vermont old sugar taps in maple is common. barbed wire, fence insulator nails and bullet parts. But I do live on what once was a farm so I consider that normal When you hit a tap a foot deep in an old maple you will be glad you got a spare chain because it will trash it!
Old clothes line hooks, screw hooks for bird feeders, nails, staples, barbed wire, squirrels abandoned nests, a bullet (hit the bullet at full throttle, what a drag), cables and stones. Most guys making lumber in my area won't touch any type of back yard tree unless it has enough board footage 20 feet up just because of the costs of hitting something in their mill.
This is what I saw when I split the round, the tree service probably ruined the chain before he moved over a couple of inches... This is what I found in the stove. Notice what the saw did before he stopped that cut... KaptJaq
not exactly an object but still pretty cool i think. I have a far better one i will post tomorrow. Stay tuned!
nope, its where someone tapped this tree for sap, close to 100 years ago. sort of like a time capsule ya know?