Today's Treasure

[Jim_Rogers]

Well, I should have posted this yesterday for the title of this thread to be correct.
But while sawing I found this little treasure:



And here is a close up:



A nice eye bolt some 12 to 14' above the butt end of this red oak log.

And won't you know it, while cutting off the board to find it, I not only hit it with the sawmill blade but with the chain saw as well......
So, I ended up with two dull saws......

I chopped around the eye bolt and loosened up enough wood so that I could put a bar through the eye and turn it out.

Well of course I had cut half way through the eye, so you guessed it, pop the thing broke in half......

I had to grab it with vise grips to get it to turn out......

Just one of those days,,,,, I guess.....

Sign me Treasure finder.....Jim Rogers

[Magicman]

The very best metal detector ever.  Those wands and coils sometimes miss metal, but saw blades never do......

[Todd]

The worst part of a strike like that is the sense of impending doom you feel for the next couple of logs. I know after I hit some big metal I saw at about 1/2 speed for a day or so, listening hard for any clues of more!  (then I relax, speed up, and whack somthing else!! )

[Jim_Rogers]

I did scan the rest of the log before I put a new resharpened blade from resharp on the mill.... those blades usually find something......

[solidwoods]

I wonder if there is another of those in a tree very near to where that tree was?
jim

[Jim_Rogers]

That's real hard to say as that log has been in my log pile for a few years, and the logger who brought it in usually does tree trimming in yards. So it is very possible, but it's impossible to tell which log was nearby.

[backwoods sawyer]

I was called out to look at a 36” Doug fir log. The rest of the logs had gone to the mill and the logger had bucked an 8’ log off the top end of a clear, straight-grained 32’ peeler log. It did not take long to see why he had left it behind. The 12’, 3” limb sticking out the side off it was a piece of pipe with fresh chainsaw marks on it, another 6’ up the log was the 1” cable that came from the end of the pipe, it wrapped around the tree and was deeply grown over. I turned the log down even though there was some real nice tight-grained 4’ wood in between.
It turns out that the rest of the tree was loaded with metal and the sawmill had contacted the logger trying to collect $3,000 in saw damages, but his contract covered him.
The rest of the story behind the tree was that it had stood at the site of an old freight stop, back when they used mule teems. I found a picture in the local logging museum of the tree with an Elk hanging from it that a freight wagon had delivered to the Bradford station.
Sometimes knowing the history of the trees before the milling starts can save a saw.

[paul case]

i usually find the fence wire or sign nails or screws or deer hunter spikes for climbing.anything obvious will set you off. i went to a future homesite to look at some trees that "had to go" and turned them down when 3 of the 5 had wire in the butt log and 1 of the others had an old bedsprings up in a fork about 20' up. that just goes to show you never can tell!!!! pc

[pigman]

an old bedsprings up in a fork about 20' up

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I have been forced to sleep in the living room a few times, but I never have been forced to sleep 20' up in a tree yet.

[beenthere]

And how did it happen to be the living room? 

[paul case]

i dunno my guess is a real lazy deer hunter that didnt want to get up early so he figgered out how to spend the night there. wouldnt work for me id probably roll outta bed for a late nite snack not rememberin that i was huntin and break something. the wife saws i dont have good enuf insurance to sleep more than 2' off the ground  pc