Was raking the coals the other night a heard a "clank". Drug this hook out of the stove. Never even saw it in the split
Knew this was in my stacks somewhere. Was waiting till I found it to post. Someone either left it up there forever or it was used to cable a branch on the tree. That's my guess anyways.
Should have added a small piece of copper to the fire and sit back and enjoyed the colourful light show. I keep 6" pieces of copper pipe and short pieces of old green garden hose in the RV and at the cottage for colourful campfires for the kids...after they are done roasting marshmallows of course. Copper goes into the coals and then simple add lengths of green hose as needed in the general area of the copper pipe then sit back and enjoy the blue/purple/green flames
Saw this trick at a campground a number of years ago, the people were joking with their friends saying that the wood burned that way because the lived near a nuclear plant.
That's a little guy. They get pretty big over here! I have put copper in campfire but never together with a garden hose, gonna have to try that this summer.
Found a loader tooth one time inside a log, also while splitting a log on the splitter that had a knot hole on it, a couple of baby snakes slid out from the knot hole. Bout ruined my britches.
Yeah that's something you don't really expect while splitting, maybe one or two around the woodpile, but in a log on the splitter! Oh yah pulled out a huge bee hive of some sort in the bottom of a red oak trunk piece one time. Still have on a shelf.
The stuff in this thread is LEGENDARY!!! And this gun stuck in a tree is absolutely astonishing. It would be soooooooooo cool to find out the real story of how it got there, to bad that will never happen. I ws probably some guy in the wild west getting chased on his horse by Billy the Kid or something, so he hid his revolver in a tree crotch, ended up shot anyway and knowbody ever found the gun for 150 years.... WOW!!
Found this tonight while I was loading up the stove. Came from my friends hunting camp. Was a big beautiful old ash until we put about 1000 rounds into it years ago, man was his dad mad. Stupid young kids we were though. Funny how things come full circle, if my kids did that now I would be pizzed at them but would kind of understand because I was there too. Even though the tree died I got the experience of cutting it down and now it's heating my house and his cabin.
I picked up a load my logger buddies had just skidded out of the woods. Came immediately home, bucked the logs and found these guys inside unharmed but mighty scared.
Well those squirrels had quite a day. Sitting inside tree that gets felled. Tree is limbed and pulled to landing by cable skidder. Log is cut into length, this one was discarded due to being hollow. Log is tossed onto my trailer and driven 7 miles. I cut long into rounds while on trailer and saw is within inches of them. Round was then noodle because it was to big for me to pick up and the spinning blade of death is within inches. Round is then split open exposing them. I took these pictures 30 min. after finding them, they wouldn't leave as they were so frightened.
