Small metal to missing teeth ratio

Banjo picker · March 22, 2009, 09:22:19 PM

I hit one screw of some sort deep in a sweetgum today and it for the most part knocked off 27 teeth. :D ;D >:( :(

I used up a lot of emotions. But thats nothing I am going to get a log tomorrow if its dry enoungh that has a bumper jack sticking out of it. I am going to take a few pic. Hopefull some day i will get to where i can post them. Tim

fishpharmer · March 22, 2009, 09:30:23 PM

That sounds like a bummer for sure. So what do you do after that happens. I guess I should search this.

Did you continue sawing the same log or just put it off to the side? Newbie question I suppose.

Dan_Shade · March 22, 2009, 09:32:43 PM

i like to live life on the edge. I turn the log over and see if I can hit it from the other side.

fishpharmer · March 22, 2009, 09:40:44 PM

Then if you hit it from the other side you cut that part out with a chainsaw? Guess it depends where the metal is located.

I got alot to learn. :P 8)

Dan_Shade · March 22, 2009, 09:55:56 PM

actually, if I hit metal, i go digging with the chainsaw and then chisel/pry/pull out the culprit.

I carry a crowbar, a prybar, wedges, and a crescent nail puller doohickey to help in nail/screw extraction.

I hit a broadhead arrowtip once, they're a lot harder than the band blade!

Ironwood · March 23, 2009, 12:19:45 AM

I recently won a battle w/ a spalted, nail infested 7' hard maple. I just would NOT give up :

Three blades later I won, nailiest darn wood I ever cut. I just gave it away the other day for free (maybe the log won that one). But it was cut up!

Fence ceramic insulators NEVER lose! Especially if it is on a low oblique orientation. >:(

Ironwood

woodhick · March 23, 2009, 04:51:48 AM

Been there done that, I agree with Ironwood on the ceramic insulators. I've cut three to date. I decided to try one of those cheap metal detectors similar to what security guards use. I bought one from Harbour freight. I was cutting a persimmon log and hit a nail and sent my son to get the new metal detector out of the shop. I scannned over the log and it "hit or beeped" in two places. Both places were right over the metal supports on the mill and I told my son it had to be picking up them. Sure enough next cut I hit two nails and plastic fence insulators, each right dead on top of the supports. My son just looked at me and asked if I was going to beleive it next time :D. Oh Well.

ErikC · March 23, 2009, 11:06:13 AM

I will back up any negative statements made about ceramic, and adds some of my own. I hit a fence insulator once, it was down where you expect trash, so I was kinda prepared. Then one time I hit a telegraph insulator, way up high where you're "safe". Those are a LOT bigger, and tougher than fence ones. Made a terrible noise, then the carbide tips on my Peterson just vanished, never to be seen again.

brdmkr · March 23, 2009, 11:49:45 AM

Quote from: Dan_Shade on March 22, 2009, 09:55:56 PM
actually, if I hit metal, i go digging with the chainsaw and then chisel/pry/pull out the culprit.

I carry a crowbar, a prybar, wedges, and a crescent nail puller doohickey to help in nail/screw extraction.

One of my favorite metal removal tools is a cordless drill. If you can find the metal and drill beside it, you can often vice-grips on it and pull it out. I hate pulling metal, but I hate hitting it even worse.

ErikC · March 23, 2009, 11:56:12 AM

Quote from: brdmkr on March 23, 2009, 11:49:45 AM
Quote from: Dan_Shade on March 22, 2009, 09:55:56 PM
actually, if I hit metal, i go digging with the chainsaw and then chisel/pry/pull out the culprit.

I carry a crowbar, a prybar, wedges, and a crescent nail puller doohickey to help in nail/screw extraction.

One of my favorite metal removal tools is a cordless drill. If you can find the metal and drill beside it, you can often vice-grips on it and pull it out. I hate pulling metal, but I hate hitting it even worse.

Great idea brdmkr, why haven't I tried that before ??? Now I can't wait to find some more metal and see how it works. :-\

Banjo picker · March 23, 2009, 08:23:02 PM

Quote from: fishpharmer on March 22, 2009, 09:30:23 PM

Did you continue sawing the same log or just put it off to the side?

James I finished cutting the log WITH that SAME blade. I just slowed the saw down to a down right crawl. The blades are 17 feet one inch so i had knocked off about 2 feet or so worth. I figured screws were like nails--no body uses just one. :D i wasn't gona ruin 2 blades on it. I got two 7 x 9 ties out of the rascel. Didn't hit any thing else. I had heard that the screws were tough.

The bumper jack had already been pulled out of the tree when i got there today, but I had forgot the camera anyway. ;D Took the 084 and split the three bigest logs into so the loader could pick them up. 42 inches on the butt cut. 8) 8) 8) Tim

Part_Timer · March 25, 2009, 09:42:28 PM

I hit 3 nails on a job last month. I couldn't figure out why they didn't show up I had scanned with the metal detector and everything was good. I changed blades scanned it again. it looked good, even changed the batteries. Hit one more that chipped 2 teeth. The metal detector was set on jewlery not all metals. I guess the detector was right, there wasn't the first diamond ring or gold bracelet in that log.

STUMPKICKER · March 27, 2009, 07:57:09 PM

In all the years I've bin' makin' sawdust, the hardest object I've ever hit was a mill bastard.

ToddC · March 27, 2009, 10:05:01 PM

Quote from: STUMPKICKER on March 27, 2009, 07:57:09 PM
In all the years I've bin' makin' sawdust, the hardest object I've ever hit was a mill bastard.

Did you have to pay him workmans comp?