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Little extra strength

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  1. Locust Post

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    Cut some sugar maple back in Jan. and found this with my saw just barely didn't hurt much. Split it last night. A little barbed wire to hold the grain together. 20190228_172556.jpg 20190228_172550.jpg 20190228_172542.jpg
     
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  2. Chris F

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    Rebar for trees!
     
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  3. BigPapi

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    Lots of that around here, too. This was prime wool country not long ago. Glad ya just nicked it instead of wrecking your chain!
     
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    Tree don't care; just keeps on growing.
     
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    Glad it wasn’t worse LP.
    :salute:
     
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  6. Midwinter

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    Wonder if this was loaded? jWldxGx.jpg
     
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    did you encounter this while cutting?
     
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  8. Midwinter

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    Next door prize at a GTG!
     
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    I’d love to know the story of how that came to be in there!
     
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    Don't worry about little things like that Locust Post. A little wire will just sharpen the saw for you.
     
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    Midwinter, do you own this, or know where it is?
     
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    No, just a picture I found surfing Imgur.
     
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    I found the Imgur post, the description was:
    "Very old gun found inside a tree by a man who milled it in Cape York. Thought to have been left in the fork and the tree had grown up around it" .
    Some other comments say that it's a shotgun, not a flintlock.
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    Wow, I could never imagine an event that would cause me to leave my shotgun in a tree! How precious and expensive a gun was in those days, the story must be interesting.
     
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    So you have to take a dump. You find a place for the gun and then find a place for the other business. Then, you can't find where the gun was left!
     
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    Jeez, I hope it wasn’t some kid using his Dad’s gun.
     
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    I have several sugar maples with fence in them.


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    Always interesting what you find in trees whether with your saw or axe. I have a few splits put aside with various metal in them. Ill post soon.
     
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    Percussion cap double barrel shotgun. There is a story there but it's lost to history.
     
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