What have you found in a round?

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.

 

That s just cool. Only thing I ever found was a hunk of concrete that trashed my chain.

 

Thats a pretty cool find! I found a shotgun slug once but never thought to take a pic

 

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.

 

Ants and barbed wire.

Greg

 

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!

 

I mighta tied some wire up in a tree on an insulator once or twice. Gotta keep the lights on.

 

I found a horse shoe.

 

nails, misc. hardware and a clothesline pulley , i set it aside to save it but someone burnt it.

 

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!

 

Many, many years ago my chain found a railroad spike. Found out what it was after it was split.

 

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.

 

You should make that an artistic piece in your home

 

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

 

Check out the small hole on the right side of the first pic, second pic shows a close-up.

 

not exactly an object but still pretty cool i think. I have a far better one i will post tomorrow. Stay tuned!

 

Is that a bullet?

 

nope, its where someone tapped this tree for sap, close to 100 years ago. sort of like a time capsule ya know?

 

interesting how it continued to effect the growth rings for decades after it was tapped.