I’ve had this big 12 foot hickory log laying around for a couple of years because when I cut it down i found out there had been an old fence in it so I finally bucked and split it for bbq wood and some stove wood. I sharpened old chains for the 576 and 455. Wow I cant wait to burn that bi$@h. Not as bad as some stuff Iv encountered but between how hard the hickory is and the metal made it a real Pain in the a$$. All the dark in the center of that round is metal.
Guess he won’t have an iron defficiency,, lol. How bout some pics of the sacrificial chain? I hit some metal last weekend on a milling job. It was ugly! That screw was hard! It won btw.
Yep I have ruined a few chains myself on steel objects in trees. The last one was a lodge pole pine that I cut down up in the mountains. It has one of those long wood screws in it. You just never know.
Wow! Thats the most eff up cutter i have ever seen, i think that chain is junk. And yes i keep old chains just for tasks like this. Always gota be careful on any tree that came from a farm, or close to houses, campgrounds etc.
I was helping an older couple last week drop and buck up a yard cherry tree that was planted in 81. I was prepared for whatever came but fortunately no metal touched my chain.
Yep, always take that chance with residential stuff. The guy sweet talked me though. Uncle of a friend yadda yadda. He planted the tree and never even hung a bird feeder in it. Was sure there wasn't any metal. The saw was cutting so fast on the first cut, by the time I felt it, it pretty much wiped out all the cutters on one side. Then I spent about an hour trying to get the chain decent enough to try it again. I found the screw, dug 1/2 way into the bark and backed it out. Gave it another go and hit metal a second time. I wasn't thrilled. That pic was after the second try. Packed it up and went home. He gave me $100 for my time and damage to chain. Told him he needed a metal detector before I came back. He found access to one and said he found many indications and told me to forget about continuing. I have a friend with a square grinder. He's going to remove the damage and that will be back up loop.
Hitting nails just sucks. Our local swimming hole is on BLM. So many perfect 60 to 80 foot lodgepole that is isn't even funny. All Beetle-Kill. No one will touch them because of nails, and lead in every tree!
I sawed 3/4 of the way thru the steel brace pipe on the bottom of the kids basketball hoop once, not of proud of it. I had truck loads of logs in the snow all around the hoop and was whacking said logs. I was more worried about the hoop than the chain. Hey, sheit happens when you do this stuff long enough.
Don't tell anybody, but I knew this guy who dropped his tool box off a log into the snow. Forgot about it, and tried bucking it up because the box was on the other side of the log. What a simpleton!.
Don't be too judgemental. It just hasn't happened to one us, yet! Again, do this long enough and we end up with stories for the gtg's. Many we aren't proud of. Who me?
That was what the witness said. But he was abut 8 years old at the time. Mueller never did get it figured out though....whew!
We all give our friends a good laugh now and then. Don't worry, they give me plenty to laugh at too. These are the pages that are in the story of our life.
Ya its all over my property so i deal with it alot. I heard somewhere that it also carries the sand in the bark as it grows.
It does, sadly. I helped a friend clear about five acres of his property years ago in south carolina. Nothing but sugarsand. Cutting up from butts about 8 feet was a dull chain. since returning home years ago, I don't buy files by the carton anymore, unless baileys makes me.
I was out today in the mountains and was cutting up a Lodge Pole pine beetle kill. I hit two bullets in it. That chain stop cutting after the second one. You can see it toward the bottom of the pic.
