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Finally Found the Other Half...

Discussion in 'The Wood Pile' started by KaptJaq, Dec 19, 2013.

  1. KaptJaq

    KaptJaq

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    No, not her. She's at work.

    Some may remember that last season I noticed screw threads in a round that had obviously dulled the landscaper's chain...

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    After I split & burned that wood I found this in the stove...

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    Well I guess they had a hammock because I am still burning that same pile of wood and this morning, when cleaning the stove, I found...

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    I am burning larger splits and did not see a trace of the hook or chain when I loaded last night. I love backyard wood.

    KaptJaq
     
  2. Grizzly Adam

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    Could be a bird feeder.
     
  3. bogydave

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    Nice pictures.
    A little less tempered now but look usable
    Better to be going in your stove's trophy case than your saw's :) LOL
     
  4. Smokinpiney

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    So do i! As long as someone else cuts it haha. A while back I found an old insulator in a large oak round. Of course i found it with my chain first. :mad:
     
  5. CNE deer

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    My dad has a L shaped bracket in a huge oak to hang up his bird feeder. the tree has claimed most of it!
     
  6. papadave

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    Right where I want to be.
    Maybe it used to be some sort of homemade torture device.
    Could be they hung victims from that tree in the yard.:eek:
    I've been watching too many CSI type shows.
     
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  7. Paul bunion

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    Almost cut through, couldn't have been much left to that chain.