Unexpected Metal Hit

Board Cutter · May 22, 2014, 10:26:34 PM

This was the second 12 foot log from a tree. I had almost finished canting the log when the mill head stopped and the engine lugged down. When we got done with wedges and chain saws, we opened up the block cut off and found the head from a cant hook/peavey. As you can see it was completely imbeddded in the tree. Being the second log from this tree, it would have been about 22 feet up in the tree!!
Best guess someone broke the handle on their peavey and hung the head on a tree. Over time the tree grew and surrounded it.

beenthere · May 22, 2014, 11:31:21 PM

They would have had to hang it 22' up in the tree. That would be a puzzlement.

Nomad · May 23, 2014, 05:26:52 AM

Quote from: beenthere on May 22, 2014, 11:31:21 PM
They would have had to hang it 22' up in the tree. That would be a puzzlement.

Doesn't make any sense, does it? What would you be doing with a peavey 22' up a tree? Did Paul Bunyan ever do any work around there? :D

customsawyer · May 23, 2014, 05:31:26 AM

Sounds to me that some one broke the handle out, landed pretty hard on there face in the process, got up and threw it and that is where it landed.

bandmiller2 · May 23, 2014, 07:36:01 AM

Cutter, even an elcheapo detector would have found that bad boy. Of course you wouldn't expect it in the second log unless it was a tree house tree. Frank C.

21incher · May 23, 2014, 07:44:49 AM

Maybe a bear stole it from a lumber camp and hung it in the tree for future use. ;D

GDinMaine · May 23, 2014, 07:52:15 AM

Too bad you sawed into it . Otherwise just fit a new handle, and you have an extra cant hook. ;D

Interesting find.

Ron Wenrich · May 23, 2014, 07:58:28 AM

What's the piece in the upper right hand corner? Where would the hook be attached to that peavey head? I can't seem to locate it.

Board Cutter · May 23, 2014, 11:30:08 PM

The piece in the upper right corner of the 1st picture is the piece for the hook. I cut it off as I came into it. The hook part was gone, and that may be why it was thrown away.

isawlogs · May 24, 2014, 12:49:35 AM

Theres gold in them there logs.... Don't we wish. :-\

I own two metal detectors and quite frankly, I would not have taken one out to give that log a metal test, I just don't have that much time to waste. Don't rightly know of anyone that would of.

Sure would be nice if one could come up with a reason for that tip to be where it was.

Cedarman · May 24, 2014, 07:49:00 AM

With a detector you could probably find the hook which may have been broken near the tree.

Chuck White · May 24, 2014, 07:53:18 AM

Quote from: Cedarman on May 24, 2014, 07:49:00 AM
With a detector you could probably find the hook which may have been broken near the tree.

Maybe it's just hidden inside of a 2x6, completely surrounded by wood! ;D

kczbest · May 24, 2014, 01:52:09 PM

Seeing what tornadoes can do and where some things wind up after a twister, I would think a tornado could be the possible culprit.

red oaks lumber · May 24, 2014, 04:05:29 PM

as a tree grows in diameter it also grows taller. my guess is the tree was fairly small when that happened, if you look closer the pith isn't all that far from the peavy.

isawlogs · May 24, 2014, 05:20:55 PM

Quote from: red oaks lumber on May 24, 2014, 04:05:29 PM
as a tree grows in diameter it also grows taller. my guess is the tree was fairly small when that happened, if you look closer the pith isn't all that far from the peavy.

It does grow taller, but what ever you put in a tree at six feet when small, will be darn close to the same height at 60years down the road, a tree grows from its tip and not from its stump.
The tornado is a very pausable cause in a case like this. The handle may have roted off a lopng time ago.

clww · May 24, 2014, 05:24:09 PM

Maybe it fell out of a plane? ;D

Dave Shepard · May 24, 2014, 05:36:06 PM

I'm pretty sure that one is the last wooden handled one I broke. I threw it so hard I think it went back in time.

RPowers · May 24, 2014, 05:49:32 PM

Wow, neat find, though I'll bet you weren't thinking that when you trashed a blade!
One nice thing about the hardwoods I cut is that a piece of metal that big would've stained that log for 4' in both directions. There isnt any stain at all in that log.

red oaks lumber · May 24, 2014, 08:23:23 PM

marcel
thanks for the explanation, i didn't realize they grow from the top only.

Ron Wenrich · May 24, 2014, 11:53:34 PM

I wonder when the last time it was that they had a twister in Washington state.

WDH · May 25, 2014, 08:13:03 AM

Quote from: red oaks lumber on May 24, 2014, 08:23:23 PM
marcel
thanks for the explanation, i didn't realize they grow from the top only.

ROL,

If that was true, your cattle fences would be reaching for the sky :D.

ST Ranch · May 25, 2014, 10:48:14 AM

board cutter - do you know the history of the stand of trees where the tree came from? I am wondering if the site might have been hi-lead [overhead cable] logged at one time in the past and the peavy got caught up in the carrage rigging or something, when yarding in a turn or returning empty?
Tom