Hit some lead! My first bullet...

[Ozarkian]

Was having a good day yesterday, admiring how much better the blades work now that I know how to sharpen them...  Then all of a sudden I hear this weird noise coming from the blade as it's cutting thru this old cedar log I was making some 1/2" x 6" boards out of. 

Here's what we found after lifting up to see what it was...






One of our dog's, a Beagle named "Ally".  Always sniffing around the Cedar, can't blame her...  It smell's amazing!



No damage was done to blade, and got a couple of really unique pieces with old bullets in em to go in my bathroom when we remodel!   ;D

-Ozarkian

[Bill Gaiche]

You probably wont find the shooter who shot the tree. I was running some erc through my drum sander this past week for a dresser and found a buckshot. It sanded smooth so I just left in there for character. bg

[Magicman]

Your first of many.  Wait until you hit nails and then you will have a different description of a "weird noise.   ;D

[POSTON WIDEHEAD]

Looking at your second pic reminds me of a Beagle I had once.....named OL' BULLET.

[T Welsh]

Ozarkian, Great looking cedar. The last time I hit a bullet I left it there and used it in a finished project ;) Talk about a conversation starter when people saw it in there ;D. Tim

[Riggs]

I hit one in one of my first couple of logs, a wild cherry. I left the bullet in squared the board up to a 6" square and it now hangs in my office. Nice conversation starter.

[metalspinner]

Teenswinger sawed a huge oak for me several years ago.  That tree must have been used for target practice for generations. :

When I was unloading the boards here at the house, my son had a feild day picking the bullets out of the boards.



  



 

[Okrafarmer]

Yeah, lead and copper are nowhere near as bad to hit as steel. Just wait until you hit your first horseshoe.


And once I was sawing off an elm stump with my MS290 and cut clean through a one-inch rock in the middle of the tree. Now I know why they call it rock elm.

[kelLOGg]

About 7 years ago I was sawing a 207(est) yr old oak and sliced thru 2 "bolts". It was among the first few trees I had ever sawn so I thought WOW! it went right thru 'em and I kept on sawing. Later I realized I didn't hit the rest of the "bolts" so they had to be lead bullets. If I had been more attentive to them (at the risk of losing focus on sawing) I would have noted where in the log they occurred and counted the rings to date the event. Civil War? Well, I had already racked them up to shed dry so I planned to examine every board a year later to find the two boards with the two half bullets. I could never find them. >:(   It would have been a great conversation piece. I have a cookie from the tree and I could have added a flag in the ring maybe saying "bullets 1863". Oh well.
Bob