Interesting. I think I've seen these guys before or something like it.. Said they have two more years of Sandy wood to mill. http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/currency/2013/10/making-money-sawmill.html
My guess is that it would depend on which logs they're getting. The lure is probably to take the butt log, however that would probably have more metal in it.. Here's a good article and a quote that talks about the hazards that are buried within the wood and how to deal with some of them. I suppose the reward must be worth the risk if they're doing so well. $1000 for a red oak table.. Not bad. http://www.popularmechanics.com/hom...rs-when-big-blades-strike-heavy-metal-8732613 "I grew interested in this question after hearing apocryphal stories of old-time sawmills finding Civil War–era cannonballs and muskets and other strange objects embedded in the wood of old trees. Indeed, Falconio says, he turns up strange objects all the time. Sawyers can find metal hidden in trees by sweeping over the log with a metal detector. But they can also hit hunks of concrete that were cast into a tree to fill up a hollow, or porcelain insulators left over from the era when trees were used as utility poles. Large-scale metal is not uncommon, either. Sawmills encounter huge steel cables used to restrain a damaged tree to keep it from cracking apart. Worse still are the gigantic galvanized bolts that tree services installed decades ago that anchor the cable to the tree. " Read more: Sawmill Disasters: When Big Blades Strike Heavy Metal - Popular Mechanics Follow us: @PopMech on Twitter | popularmechanics on Facebook Visit us at PopularMechanics.com
