The bad thing was , I used my new Echo 590, I missed this one, but I think I got it's brother. It looks like it's a 3/8ths wood screw, one question, WHY ?
Only you can answer why you chose it's brother. I put some screws in trees to hold thermometers and reflectors on the tree where I park so I don't back into it in the winter when it's dark when I get home. it. The thermometer broke as the tree got bigger and the screws pulled out of the plastic. It was one of those big round ones white in color. The reflectors also broke one at a time. I was thoughtful enough to remove the screws one day. Many don't or completely forget all about it.
i HATE when that happens. Its anybody's guess why its there. At least oak will give you a warning with the bluish colored grain.
FIFY Brad. B.Brown I've asked myself why often as well. Have found some really interesting stuff with some really nice chains. Sugar Maple with concrete poured down the center was a real surprise.
there was a tree in my dads yard that had that....a V in a hickory if i remember. Mightve been a way old timers fixed voids in trees?
This is from the oak tree's in our daughters back yard, i found some nails, but, i don't think i cut them, but, i really rattled the 590 on another one of these things. I'm done cutting this oak with my saw's. There's a huge chunk of oak left over, about 15 ft long, and 30'' on the butt. I don't want to tear my saws and chains up on it, think i'll find some one with a metal detector and see if that will help. I'm getting really tired of hitting metal in this wood.
That looks like a big lag bolts. Must have had something heavy hanging there one time. Yard trees are bad about that. I cut one yard log today, used an old chain, didn't find any surprises. I know my son made plenty of squirrel and bird feeders and fastened them to trees with coated deck screws, they don't stain......
Does that huge hunk of oak have any blue stain spots at either end? That’s a telltale sign of embedded ferrous metal. If you could come up with enough wedges, you could try to split that log first like they did the old split rail fences..
I like it a lot! About my 4th tank of fuel though it, and its feeling pretty good, it'll cut that stuff, minus the metal very fast, i'm really pleased with the saw.
I'm going to take my axe tomorrow, and split it out, and see just how big it is. I'd bet there's a hook on it as well. Bad thing is, there's about 10 more tree's back there and i'm betting they all have stuff in them at about the 6' , and 8 ' mark. Boy, after about the second time, i was really getting frustrated. Oh, i did go vertical with the spltter and tried to split a long round, to see what else i could find. Lots of work to do that, but, i'm gun shy now.
If it was a woods tree I would guess deer stand. Seeing as it’s a yard tree I’ll guess treehouse. The reason lumber mills generally don’t take yard trees.
For the cost of a couple chains, if you're going to cut yard trees and fence row trees, one of these will come in real handy. My wife's uncle uses one before woodworking with rough cut lumber. It's saved him a few saw or planner blades over the years.
My dad and uncle used to split really big logs so they could lift them on the buzz saw. The only had a couple three or four wedges to use. They would make wedges out of chunks of hard wood whittled into shape with a single bit axe. Use the metal wedge to get the split started then drive in the wood wedge to get the pressure released on the metal wedges as they worked down the log. I have seen them split a Oak log so big that even once quartered it had to be turned 3 times to get the 36" buzz saw blade all the way thru it. Back then the only other recourse was to us the 2 man cross cut, most normal frarms didn't have a chain saw. Al
3/8 is a common screw eye/hook size useful for many things from clotheslines to performing outdoor rope bondage fetishes.
One thing for sure, that old oak was sure gnarly!! Man, it had some real twists and such in the wood, too bad it had the nails, and screws in it, would have made some really good heavy lumber. It should make some good firewood after it cures out for about 2 yrs. I split it down to about 3'' in some cases, maybe that'll speed up the curing of it. In the middle some of it, it split almost like glass, it kind of shattered in a sense. I'll take my old 266 with the so, so chain on it, and chip away at it, that way i won't feel so bad about beating up the 590 and its chain. And, i've got the 044 with some old chains that would be ok to use on stuff like this. It'll just take more time to cut up.
Yikes man! I got lucky earlier this winter when I found this eye bolt in a piece of ash. Somehow didnt even hit it with the chain but saw it after it was on the splitter.
I posted in the Loaded Truck tread about removing a deck. I have a dedicated chain on the 261 that I sacrificed. I have to take it off and put it on the grinder about every tank fill. I will look three times and plan a cut and still nick a stray nail. When the deck is gone, so is that chain.
