guess which is harder, a nail or a screw?

[stonebroke]

How did a t post get forty feet up into a tree?

Stonebroke

[Magicman]

It took me a while to figure it out.  Since I bucked the logs up, I knew that nobody was screwing with my head.  I cut a 20' log off (which was the butt cut) and sawed it.  The next log was another 20 footer, which I sawed.  The third log was 16'.  I had sawed about 4' when I hit the post.  This put the T post at least 45' from the ground.  It was broken off beneath the bark, which is why I didn't see it.  It was driven in rather than "grew" in.  You can see the torn wood fibers around the post.

Bottom line.  When the tree was cut, it fell across a fence which drove the post into the tree.  When the skidder hooked up, the post was broken off inside of the tree.

[customsawyer]

The hardest thing I haven't been able to cut is a cotton picker spindle. They like to use them down here as steps for the deer stands.

[dail_h]

   I was resawing some beams from an old shoe factory one time. Sewing needles driven into a beam will take "all" the teeth off a bandsaw most quick. Doesn't even scratch the needle(sigh)

[sgschwend]

Here is my first insulator.  The saw teeth rubbed off and certainly the saw could not continue.  The saw was wedged tight, I could only brake the blade off.  The insulator was at the 18 year ring versus a 70 year old tree.

My saws normally can cut through even a 1/4 bolt size piece of steel, such as the lag bolt holding the insulator, but the ceramic end was a killer.  I have also hit 1/2 rebar and that kills the blade too.