Most valuable fence post I've ever sawn!

[Bibbyman]

Well maybe...

You just need some place to nail a porcalian insulator for a hot fence.  Ah!  Here's a nice spot right here on this walnut tree.



A little closer look.




This 15"x9' butt cut walnut log has at least one porcelain insulator grown over.  I'm going to get out the metal detector and see if I can find any other nails.  Not any to hopeful as there was no nail in this one.  It was either pulled or rusted away..

[oldsaw]

Nails remain in walnut as pretty as the day they were put in, with only the black coating getting in the way of that perfect "new from the hardware store" shine.  They don't rust, they don't get eaten away...I actually think they grow bigger like the tree itself.

Somehow, I intend to prove that walnuts are magnetic, and will suck any loose nail or other tramp metal in under the cover of night.

If there was only one nail in a county, the first place I would look would be the prettiest, biggest walnut in the county.  I'm betting I would find it...fast.

[woodmills1]

them insulators aint forgiving like nails might be are they?

doing a smal job for a friend today at short money I found some nice 10 pennies.  DanG the nice sharp set blade cuts very slow after 3 nails.

[LeeB]

oww! LeeB

[Bibbyman]

Yep!  That blade was a goner.  I got it stopped as soon as I heard the squeal but half the tooth height was already gone.   That's the way it goes some days.

Sawed up about 3mbf of cherry last week and hit about a dozen rifle bullets. Some jacketed hunting type and some were round balls like buckshot or from a muzzle loader.   At least they didn't destroy any blades.

[Jason_WI]

Cherry trees make a perfect backstop for target practice


Jason

[Bibbyman]

Maybe they were shooting at the elephants that had painted their toenails red and were hiding in the cherry tree. 

[ohsoloco]

I always get the cherry logs that have been turned into a carpenter ant buffet 

Bibby, that's usually what I do too...wait until I hit something and then get out the metal detector 

[Bibbyman]

We scan any that look suspect. But this one gave no clue.  I didn't detect any more iron in it.  But the nail was gone out of this insulator so it wouldn't have picked it up anyway.  We'll dig the insulator out,  put on a blade that's about used up, and try it again.  If it were pretty much junk,  we'd just scrap it.

[mike_van]

I had an oak log years ago, a nice one - 24" x 12' -  a few nails sticking out. Out came the detector, it would not stop beeping - After chopping out 6 -8 nails, still no end. I threw it in the fire wood pile, when I split it up, the entire log was blue - Nicked a few with the chainsaw, pulled out some on the splitter wedge,  just loaded.  Small wonder it was at the dump. got it for free.  It did heat well though. 

[woodmills1]

wait till ya get one that had a whack of boards nailed to it like a ladder.   but nothing still comes close to the screwdiver that the kids must have hammered into the neighbors spruce.  chrome plated and hardened, aint seen nothin like it still

[Bibbyman]

This morning I chiped out the rest of the insulator and took a deeper cut.  Didn't hint anything else in the log. 

[Larry]

I found something even worse than insulators.  When Osmose inspects utility poles for deterioration  they drill a 3/8" hole...ya guessed it they broke off the drill bit and I found it for them.

[oldsaw]

Learn something new every day.

 

[Cedarman]

When you hit a nail, you think, "I can salvage this blade." You spend time setting and sharpening and maybe it is ok and maybe it is not. Time wise, it may be more expensive then just throwing the blade away.

BUT, when you hit an insulator, all the decision making about saving the blade is easy!!

[rl]

    I' made an attemt to cut one for a customer also.  no better luck than you . i got twenty dollars i charge for ruining a blade though suck though    have fun     rl   

[woodman]

    Ri you lost money by only charging 20.00 for a blade, you paid shipping to get it and shipping to get a new one plus time lost next time charge 30.00 just to beake even, Ido plus blade life and you can not resharpen it to use it. I get 4 to 5 sharpinings out of a blade or about 3 to 4 thousand board feet a blade.

            Or maby it was on the 5th sharping and it's ok
                      But only yoy will know.

[Frickman]

Last Thursday a friend asked me to look at a walnut tree he had just cut down behind his home, a hundred-plus year old farmhouse. He said he had plans of making a mantle piece out of it. When I arrived he was sitting on a log that grew not more than ten feet from his house. I told him that I don't saw yard trees because of metal. He said that he checked, there wasn't any metal in this tree. About two inches from where his foot rested was a huge fence staple. He asked what he could with the log now? It will split into firewood easy, as it was so hollow it looked like a drain pipe.