This put a stop to my sawing yesterday. I normally scan all the butt logs with a metal detector, but this was the second log on a large longleaf pine, over ten feet above the top of the butt log.
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Judging from the size of those threads, I'm guessing there is a large chunk of ceramic insulator still buried in the log. It would have been just the right height for a power line. This was at least 6 inches down into the log. What a stroke of luck to split the thing with the main, then cut it off with the edger. Got the teeth on both blades. :-\ :'(
At last your a pro 8) 8) 8)
what did you say at the time?
iain
It ain't my first rodeo by a long shot, Iain. That's just the largest thing I've ever hit, if you don't count the mill itself. :D :D :D
I don't hit very much metal, and that's because I do use the metal detector a lot. I still have the butt log from that tree, and you can bet it will get a careful scanning. This one still has lots of good wood in it, so I'll take it off and scan it after lopping that end off. I'll make an 8 footer out of it. ;D
I bet there wernt no smilie faces ;D
iain
Dan
I hit something much like that in a southern red oak several months back. It must have been at least 20 feet up. I found another one in a pine log, again about 20 ft up, before the blade hit it. I actually saw this one. I know that metal is agervatin.
I would also suppose that some folks hit sap spiles left in maple trees and healed over. I'de be wary of some maple bushes around my area, sometimes old grand pa did some tapping 50 years ago in those big old maples. Sometimes they got removed and sometimes the operation was abandoned.
Dang bad luck, Dang. :-[
I'm gonna have to get a tutorial on using my metal detector. My results seem pretty inconclusive. I've been lucky with metal thus far but I know that some of the trees in the area that I'm cutting have had tree houses and electric lines in the past.
Quinton
Bring it to the pig roast and we'll all practice, Quinton. :)
I'd love to make the pig roast Tom. But with all of the rain delays that we had, I have to keep my nose to the stone. My wife is planning our 40th wedding anniversary party for the 26th of August and if I don't have a roof on the cabin by that time...I may not be invited. :D
Quinton
If you back up to that metal detector it will tell you whether you have lead in your *Donkey or not.
:D
I recently hit a freaking coke bottle in a crotch, metal makes a strange sound but glass is even stranger...
I changed out the teeth today, and to my surprise the main teeth faired pretty well. A couple of corners were chipped off, but I can grind them back square and put them in with some of the older ones. A couple of the edger teeth are really crashed bad, but the rest were not damaged.
I don't have an "onboard" sharpening system, so when the teeth get dull I just replace them and sharpen them on the bench grinder. There are only 6 teeth on each blade, so this isn't a big chore. I manage the teeth in much the same manner as most bandmillers manage their blades.
DanG
Was that the 5 3/4 X 5 3/4 board you was sawing? :D
Nawww, MH. I already saw myself sawing that one a couple years ago. Dis one was a 1x10x12 pine board to go on the side of Mr. Herman's cabin.
It sure makes for a lot of extra work,one dang bolt can sure stop all production. I've been pretty lucky,worst I got yet was some buckshot. I didn't know I hit it till I was sanding it down.
Scanning logs I use a new sharped Monkey-blade. >:( They don´t just find metal.
QuoteI recently hit a freaking coke bottle in a crotch, metal makes a strange sound but glass is even stranger...
Did that in the dark last fall. An old cherry with a hole someone had put a bottle and other things into long time ago. Nice sound and strikes :D Glass is 10x harder than steel.
Swede