Byrd Shellix eats bullets

[Larry]

And keeps on trucking with no noticeable damage.  As I was thinking after wards, why wouldn't it keep going with carbide inserts.

Lead bullets have never caused damage in the past, but jacketed bullets such as these two sometimes kill bands and conventional planer knives.

For the gun crowd my CSI crew says these were 38 Supers fired from a Colt Chiefs Special. :D

[WDH]

Even so, I will pass on the bullets. 

[Bill Gaiche]

Larry, I havent planed any bullets yet but I really like my Byrd cutting head. bg

[hackberry jake]

Bullets add character.

[Magicman]

 

 
They can also show up when making T&G.   ;D

[WDH]

Bullets add character.

Yes, to the sawyer or woodworker  .

[LittleJohn]

...if I remember correctly from my college days; the speed and feeds for Aluminum, lead and other soft metals are very comparible to most Hardwoods. 

Now would I perposely cut metal with my mill no, but I have sawed a few boards with buck shot, slugs, 22's, etc. and generally had little to not affect on cut or to blade health.  I also generally stop when I see bullets, and dig them out, to lessen my chances of messign up a blade

[Larry]

In the Missouri River 93 flood  there was a big whack of walnut logs trapped by flood waters in the bottoms.  It was a long time before the waters receded enough to get to the logs and the logger owner was no longer interested.  The landowner started bringing me logs to salvage after a couple of years.  On the first log I must of sawed through 20 bullets on the first pass.  Many of the bullets had jackets and ruined the band.

I called the landowner and he said he always heard a lot of shooting coming from the area after the flood.  It turns out people had been using the stack of logs for a bullet backstop when target shooting.  I still was able to salvage a few thousand feet of lumber...and a lot of firewood.

[hackberry jake]

You could have marketed that lumber as "highly valuable battle field" walnut. 

[mesquite buckeye]

Bullets dull my blades pretty well. Just less than steel and maybe a little less than that black glop we run into when we cut mesquite. :(

[yukon cornelius]

on a piece of property near us there is a really nice straight walnut about 30" diameter in the field. my neighbor said the owners use it for target practice. they must wipe their butts with $20 bills and throw away a plate rather than wash it.