Most unique foreign object.

[dboyt]

Concrete.  Apparently, arborists used to reinforce hollow trees with it.  Beautiful walnut log without a hint of a problem.  Ruined the blade.

[Stephen1]

I was sawing a table top from a ash tree from the gentleman's from lawn. The tbar and the wire with the hose was all there. The tree had grown around the Tbar.That took a few blades to sort out.

[drobertson]

lots of metal, tee posts do great damage to blades, had one much like MM's tornado had to have stuck in, broke off flush with the bark so I never saw it, but the neatest one was bullets, two 9mm butted one behind the other in the crotch of a walnut, way up the tree, third log, someone had to have been plinking at a squirrel.

[Solomon]

I had a cam shaft grown into the middle of a log,  looked like and old chevy v8 cam.   I didn't hit it with the mill,  I found it with the metel detector.  I cut the log on both ends of the shaft and still got two nice pieces to mill.  One 5 1/2 foot and the other just shy of 4 foot.   Walnut about 28 inches diameter🤗

[Kbeitz]

Check out some if these pictures...

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2602084/Nature-war-How-helmets-grenades-guns-discarded-world-wars-enmeshed-tree-trunks-Russia.html

[kelLOGg]

Concrete.  Apparently, arborists used to reinforce hollow trees with it.  Beautiful walnut log without a hint of a problem.  Ruined the blade.

I thought that was where "Hardiplank" came from. ;D

[tomsteve]

my total milling experience(to date and not including when i worked in a mill fresh out of high school) was some oak and maple logs from 2 trees from my neices back yard.
but i found waldo!! 8)

[Magicman]

had one much like MM's tornado had to have stuck in, broke off flush with the bark so I never saw it

In my instance the T post was driven into the log when the tree was felled across a fence.  No tornado.  The post was broken off during the skid.

[venice]

@Kbeitz thanks for the link.

Memorial for all those unknown heros who gave all to serve their country. venice

[Deese]

two worst objects I've cut into were an insulator and a horseshoe , both in walnut logs.


 
you can see where the blade cut the tip of the shoe off. Never new what was in the log until a friend burned the slabs in his wood stove.

Now that is just too cool!
The fact that the identity of the object was only discovered after burning makes it that much better!  8) 8)
This is a great thread 

[Clevelander]

two worst objects I've cut into were an insulator and a horseshoe , both in walnut logs.


 
you can see where the blade cut the tip of the shoe off. Never new what was in the log until a friend burned the slabs in his wood stove.

Now that is just too cool!
The fact that the identity of the object was only discovered after burning makes it that much better!  8) 8)
This is a great thread 

I agree Deese ... this is pretty cool. Thanks for sharing guys.

[caveman]

 

 
I did not saw this but I did see it and do not want to saw it. It probably was not foreign, it is old enough that it is most likely domestic (livestock panel).
Kyle

[scleigh]

I liked the fact that the horseshoe was in the wood stove as well. You should have seen the look on my buddies face that monday morning when he came into work carrying that thing :D


 
this is my buddy, he's a funny guy, been with our company for 35 years and loves anything to do with wood. This is a pic of a white oak we removed last winter.

[POSTON WIDEHEAD]

Good pic. 

[Magicman]

Good log.   8)

[Kbeitz]

Not mine but I would hate to saw into this...
COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT OF ANOTHER WEBSITE. IMAGES REMOVED YOU MAY ONLY POST PHOTOS YOU OWN OR HAVE PERMISSION TO POST. PLEASE READ RULES ON POSTING PHOTOS

I did have permission to use that picture.  I've had this picture for a few years.
I ask if I could post it on my tractor forum a few years ago.

[beenthere]

Prolly need to attach that permission to the pic you use... otherwise the FF may get nailed for using it here. Make sense?

[Clevelander]

 
I did not saw this but I did see it and do not want to saw it. It probably was not foreign, it is old enough that it is most likely domestic (livestock panel).
Kyle

And that is a nice black walnut too, isn't it Caveman?

[Kbeitz]

Prolly need to attach that permission to the pic you use... otherwise the FF may get nailed for using it here. Make sense?

Yep... Sorry...
No problem...

[tgalbraith]

Just curious: What is the most unique, unusual, or unexpected item you have ever found inside a tree you were milling?

I just thought  I would throw this in,  it was funny at the time.  When I started carving my wooden
chain (see posting "wooden chain) and had about 7-8 links carved,  I showed it to my sister in law.
I told her that when I was milling that old pine log, I found a logging chain inside it. She kept pushing
the links aside trying to see a real chain inside the board. That has always been my system on anything
I carved, imagine what you want and whittle off anything that don't fit.

 

[caveman]

Clevlander, the tree with the livestock panel inside is a live oak not a walnut.

[Clevelander]

Clevlander, the tree with the livestock panel inside is a live oak not a walnut.

Ida lost that bet. I bet that thing has some beautiful figure around all that metal. Some great turning blocks after I checked it with a metal detector to make sure there's no other surprises suspended in it

[ncsawyer]

I wish I had a picture, but one of the neatest things I sawed into was a "target practice tree".  In one pass (maybe the second pass)  I cut 7 or 8 bullets almost exactly in two, long-ways. 

They were all the same caliber and all the same bullet.  They all entered the tree in a 8 inch group and traveled the exact same distance into the tree and turned up. Each bullet was facing toward the top of the tree.  So they must have entered the tree and then turned 90 degrees before stopping. 

I could not have cut all these bullets in half like that if I had tried, especially on the same pass.  The consistency in bullet orientation and depth was the most amazing part of it.

[Magicman]

Maybe he was just a good shot.   :D

[hacknchop]

I once cut into log full of lead with circular with stellite teeth did'nt hurt the teeth so decided to keep sawing was ok till I hit the nail they had nailed the target with.