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found this in the ashes this evening....

Discussion in 'Modern EPA Stoves and Fireplaces' started by Scotty Overkill, Dec 29, 2013.

  1. Scotty Overkill

    Scotty Overkill Administrator

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    During a cleanout! I've found TONS of stuff in the ashes over the years, this is one of the bigger things I've found recently. Thank goodness I didn't hit it with the saw back when I cut that tree down!!

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    Anyone else finding any big metal this year in the ashes?
     
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    Who is this masked man finding large metal in his stove? Anyone know?
     
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    That's a heck of a spike!
     
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    Sorry fellas this boys been SLAMMED........one busy month for sure.......

    I'll be on more I promise!!
     
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    Glad you didnt find that with the sawo_O

    Weve been missing you Scotty but understand that you've got a lot on your plate
     
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    Found a huge screw eye with the saw.
    Wish i had found it in the ashes.
     
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    Good to see you here.
     
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    I have nails from pallet scrap I use to burn coals down, but no big mo fo,s like that
     
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    If you are finding similar stuff often,
    I bet you've found some with a chain too.
    Trees close to homes, notorious for imbedded metal parts & pieces.
    You ever use a metal detector to look/scan before cutting ?
     
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    That could have been BAD on a saw chain! Better to find it in the ashes than in the cut ;)
     
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    My grapple loads are typically city trees, have had plenty of metal in my tree length. Spikes, pulleys and concrete to name a few found items, oh yeah fence parts too. Wrecked a few chains as well.
     
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    Bogy, I dropped a HUGE ash tree several years back that was littered with railroad spikes........must've been a tree house or something in it at one time. Wrecked three 28" chains bucking that tree!
     
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    I keep looking for gold Doubloons in the ashes. None yet...:(
     
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    Yep, that's a pretty big spike.
    Why'd you bend it? Very wasteful.:p
    Only thing I've found is something I still haven't identified....it's still in the tree.
    Was cutting a branch off a tree at my sis-in-law's with her new little Homelite, and rocked the chain but good.
    Moved up on the branch and finished the cut (at a later date, with my saw), so the metal is still in there. I'll to it some day...and I won't forget it's there.
     
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    A cheap metal detector would find rail spike :)
     
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    Got one of those now.......hindsight is 20/20!!
     
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    Better take that to the blacksmith shop and not waste it :smoke: Ice storm years ago, my 300ft driveway was slick... Neighbor had an outside boiler and so did I at the time... I was out of ashes for the driveway... I called , he had ashes... I asked about any nails being in the ashes... burning pallets or old building material.. Nope all clean he says... Well I go get the ashes in a 30 gallon trash barrel... About half way down my drive way shoveling ashes I spot a nail,, crap! Spent 2 hrs looking over the driveway picking nails here and there....talk about pizzed... Thank God I didn't do the whole drive way. Called the neighbor to let him know, he says oh my kid probably threw some stuff in there when he was at work... Lesson earned here...
     
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    I doubt it unless it was really close to the surface. Most won't find stuff very deep at all. We've even tried using them to find lost arrows. They will find some but not all. I did have some fun one year though when I went into a field where we constantly found new stuff every year. Seems there once was a bachelor living in a shack many years ago. Found some stuff I don't even know what it is.
     
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    I believe that calls for beer! It's a huge spike thank goodness it didn't bite the saw or the hands. I nailed a big chunk of rebar on one of the villiage trees a few weeks back and that destroyed an almost new chain. Other then that I can't remember anything other than nails really.
     
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    Was a time in the PNW, "tree huggers" were spiking trees.
    Many used ceramics so metal detectors would miss them.
    Ruined lost of saw chain & saw mill equipment, dangerous to loggers.
    Now, mills run logs thru metal detectors & scanners now, before running thru the saw.

    "Tree spiking is a type of ecotage which is intended to prevent loggers from taking trees. In the United States, it is a federal felony, as of 1988."

    "Tree spiking, or treespiking, is a form of industrial sabotage (or "ecotage", or "ecoterrorism") which involves a person spiking an iron rod or some ..."

    "Tree spiking was more recently described in Earth First! co-founderDave Foreman's bookEcodefenseas a way that environmental activists could thwart logging operations. It involves driving large metal nails (16d or larger) or spikes deep into trees scheduled to be logged, then warning the logging company or public officials that the area's trees had been spiked. The theory is that companies would then not log because the spikes could damage sawmill equipment. To avoid this, some sawmill operators check trees with metal detectors prior to milling, and in turn Foreman advocates the use of ceramic spikes which quickly become impossible to detect."
     
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