Socially And Technically Correct Nomenclature

YellowHammer · December 03, 2013, 09:20:12 PM

PC- Guilty on all counts. :D All I can say was it seemed like a good idea at the time :D

CC - I prefer the wand for several reasons. The coil is a budget model that is untrustworthy, unwieldy, and a little too delicate for me. The wand is more durable, portable and generally easier and faster to use, but in all honesty, neither penetrates deep into a log so doesn't catch the deep hidden stuff. Also, the problem is that once the log is on the mill both are of limited use because there is so much metal on the mill causing false signals.

The wand would have picked up the nails in this log if it had a fresh battery.
YH

chickenchaser · December 03, 2013, 10:02:32 PM

YH,

Thanks for the details. I have "shopped" for a detector for a few months now. It doesn't seem as needful now as it did then - even though I found my first nail last week. Funny thing...it was a brand new experience but I was 99% sure what it was immediately. Customer was shocked because the tree was cut in an area that had never been fenced or any reason to be concerned. We turned 180* and carefully sawed down to a couple inches without further incident.

CC

barbender · December 04, 2013, 10:26:59 AM

A "plurality" of nails :

qbilder · December 04, 2013, 11:45:03 AM

Quote from: chickenchaser on December 03, 2013, 10:02:32 PM
Customer was shocked because the tree was cut in an area that had never been fenced or any reason to be concerned.

I cut an old chestnut oak last summer that was easily half a mile deep into the woods, several miles from the nearest farm, and atop a ridge crest. No way would I ever have thought there would be metal, but sure enough it had three rows of fence in it. Nobody in the family remembers a time when it wasn't forest, but obviously at some point there was a fence up there. I quarter sawed the butt log & got the most beautiful blue/purple/black oak I have ever seen, and to ease the pain of spending 3 blades to do it, the log was curly. Still cost me 3 blades on a deep forest oak that nobody believed could have metal.

chickenchaser · December 04, 2013, 11:21:24 PM

Ya know - I just thought of something:

I'm 51. Born in 1962. Skip ahead 10-12 years = 1974
I recall building a "fort" in my Dad's pine thicket. I chopped maybe 3" diameter pines and NAILED them horizontally into at least four separate "corner" pines 6" diameter - maybe larger. The structure eventually rotted over the next 5 - 10 years. Did I go back and pull the nails? smiley_angel01_halo...NOT!

February 2000 ice storm severely damaged the largest pines and somewhere around 2003 it was logged. I wonder how large those 6" pines were after another 30 years? I wonder how deep those 20d nails were embedded? Maybe those logs went for pulp... :

I feel so ashamed.

CC

Peter Drouin · December 05, 2013, 06:44:25 AM

You check the log before you put it on the mill. :

and buy a good metal detector. You will be happier in the long run ;D

Higgins · December 05, 2013, 03:53:10 PM

Quote from: YellowHammer on December 03, 2013, 08:47:42 AM
Well, me being impatient, said the famous last words "I don't want to wait, how bad can it be?' I suppose I found out.
YH

Well there's your problem right there!! ;)

For the record, I'm going with "a cornucopia of nails".

goose63 · December 05, 2013, 05:01:59 PM

Cut down a box elder cut spilt for my sister in law was tree in town if I had to buy that many nail's I would have to take out a very large loan

JSwigga · December 05, 2013, 08:35:31 PM

How about a "manicure" That's 10 nails, if you grew up next to a nuke plant, maybe more.

dboyt · December 07, 2013, 03:33:47 PM

How about "plethora"? I've always liked saying that word.

giant splinter · December 07, 2013, 04:42:44 PM

Losing a blade or two is one thing, letting your wife win one once in a while is important ...... Take her out for a chicken dinner and tell her you love her!, pick up some batteries then get back to sawing and never look back. ;D

There very well may not be any term that could be socially acceptable when trying to hang a name on hitting that many nails < GRIN >, the cost of the replacement blades added to the invoice might make everyone feel better in this situation and you can always blow off some steam ..... once the mill is in the cut, put a dust mask on and yell every bad word you know at the top of your lungs till you get to the end of the log then call it good.