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Stuff you find in the ashes

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  1. tfdchief

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    IMG_4689.JPG Glad I missed this with the chain saw. Found it and some wire in the ashes today. Price you pay for cutting in Central IL.
     
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    Old fence row scrounging hey???:thumbs:
     
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    That kind of hardware does a number on a chain for sure.I seem to find more than my share mostly old barb wire with the saw, but I cut on an old farm and it seems that years ago they used more trees for posts instead of actual posts.
    Can't say I blame them on this hilly terrain use what ya got.Glad you found that in the ashes and not with the saw.
     
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    Yep, Chief, we get our share of that "stuff" too. Fence rows & yard birds. Just how it is. Heat treated nails are worth more you know. :picard:
     
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    Scotty Overkill missed this gem, luckily, with the new 461 at mom's...:eek:

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    I found a big metal hook the other day in the ashes. Never saw it in a split. Must have been buried perfectly
     
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    Speaking of ashes, we have a local pet crematory.

    Well someone had the remains of two pets in the containers provided by the crematory with the business address labelled on the containers.
    And it seems that these jack wagons decided they would dump their pets ashes into a favored waterfalls.
    Only thing is, they just left the containers out there in the wood nest to the falls.

    :headbang:

    Just plain lazy?
     
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    I find slugs quite abit, .45 most frequently... At least we know how the tree died... ;-)
     
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    Found a tee post one time in a old oak log. Needless to say it was log&post 1 chain 0.
     
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    Uhmmm...got an English version of that ? :confused:
     
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    Welcome to the club, Ben!:handshake:
    Glad you found us!
     
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    Not my stove.:hair::D

     
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    We have cut quite a lot of wood at the city bone yard. It is easy firewood, but a person pays the price because of hardware. There is a much greater risk of hardware being in city trees. I have chains to prove it.
     
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    I could be wrong, but methinks someone needs to have a cap at the top of their smoke stack/chimney.
     
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    Chief, is that a staple around the nail?
     
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    No, bailing wire. In Central IL it doesn't matter where you are. Even in the woods, what little we have, you are liable to find this stuff:hair: Just part of it. Completely destroyed a brand-new chain once, when I hit a rail road spike!
    Chief
     
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    Was raking out ashes from the stove today, and fished this out.

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    An old closthes-line pulley.

    Was completely hidden in a piece of oak from a load purchased a couple of years ago.

    Now, I had handled that piece up to 5 times, from delivery, to stack, to the stove, and I never noticed it.

    You can see across the top, the direction the wood processor was going, when it ripped right through it.

    Like other objects, glad I didn't run across it with my chainsaw.
     
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    Thats huge!
     
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    Wow!!! That would have wrecked a chain saw. Glad you just found it the ashes. Here in central Illinois, I find that stuff all the time. Just part of wood cutting I guess. Chief
     
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