After many years of hoarding firewood as my primary heat. I look at the logs more closely now,however I have been very lucky over the years and have only had a few encounters of hitting the odd items that people attach to trees, which are left to be grown over. It doesn't take much hardened steel to destroy a chain.? Another concern is at what depth do these metal detectors work. So, what do you have or recommend for a handheld metal detector. So do I need a metal detector to use on the many marketplaces finds that I have been finding. So, what do you have or recommend for a handheld metal detector? Is there anything else I need to know about them?
Good question. I’ve been thinking about that myself lately. Not so much for the chainsaws but I was looking at some Ash for the neighbors sawmill a couple weeks ago. Nice trees that weren’t dead too long. A cluster of three. He needed 16 footers. Then I spied one rusty nail sticking out. Somebody had built a tree stand in them somewhere along the line.
Great question. Ive thought of the same with all the metal i seem to hit. Calling The Wood Wolverine Ive seen him use a handheld one when milling.
When I milled that big walnut, my friend Mike used his uncles equipment to detect metal. I tried the wand but the normal weedeater looking one is what we stuck with. I really didn't take a direct pic of it. We did put some metal behind a slab and it sensed it. Also pulled it away a bit until it stopped. Ended up being a couple inches. I have yet to get one myself, but I probably should soon. I have a paying job to mill honey locust coming up and I swore last time I destroyed chain that I'd not do it if I wasn't able to detect for metal. When I get home, I'll search for the pic of the wand.
Is this the wand that you were referring to The Wood Wolverine ? If it is, I may have one for sale if I can find it and the batteries haven't exploded if they are still in it.
I have regular detectors and a pinpointer , I should probably run them over the log before I hit metal ; NOT after.
LMK, might be interested. I can't find pics but what I used was a pinpointer. We never found metal so there wasn't a need to hone in on anything.
I jave a regular detector. Not sure what brand. I know it goes deep. We used it to find the power wires that were buried underground to the shop. It had a good hard signal on them and they were down about 2 feet. It finds everything else too, including iron bearing rocks. A friend of mine has one that goes down about 90 feet in sandy soil. It cost him a cool 52k though. He is an archaeologist, so he gets all the cool toys.
Today my wedding ring slipped off and landed in the snow. I looked for a bit with no luck. My boy came out with his metal detector and found it for me! This novelty gift is paying off big time!
Same ring situation happened to a fella at my kids school yesterday. The boy brought his detector in and found it this morning! What a stud.
