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Title: My first foreign object!
Post by: ND rancher on February 08, 2013, 11:02:35 PM
 

 (https://forestryforum.com/gallery/albums/userpics/30744/IMG_2365.JPG) 

 (https://forestryforum.com/gallery/albums/userpics/30744/IMG_2366.JPG) This is what I found when I was giving a new 7° a trial run. I could tell something was wrong, just not sure what, until I pulled the board off. Started digging and found this. It's not mine! I do not like FO's! The 7° was working real good on that ash until smiley_smash. I think I was on the third ash log when this happened.  Keith
Title: Re: My first foreign object!
Post by: Jeff on February 08, 2013, 11:19:05 PM
Hitting one of those is usually worse then hitting a nail.
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Post by: Mountain State Farm on February 08, 2013, 11:27:30 PM
It's a Muzzy!
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Post by: ND rancher on February 08, 2013, 11:53:59 PM
Yes it is, 100 gr.
Title: Re: My first foreign object!
Post by: beenthere on February 09, 2013, 12:02:45 AM
I sunk one of those into a tree this past hunting season. A 2" elm that at 30 yards, I'm sure I didn't even know it was my side of the deer.
Couldn't believe it when that deer walked away, as I heard the "smack" loud and clear. The carbon arrow had compression failures along it so it ended up to be a $30 loss with no meat.  :(
Title: Re: My first foreign object!
Post by: hackberry jake on February 09, 2013, 01:31:24 AM
Where's the aluminum insert? Maybe the culprit unscrewed it after he pulled the shaft off of it.
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Post by: Chuck White on February 09, 2013, 09:42:19 AM
I hit an Iron Wood tree once, years ago when bow hunting.

Couldn't pull it out, so I unscrewed the shaft and went on my way.

So far, I haven't hit a broadhead with my mill, but there's always next summer!

Title: Re: My first foreign object!
Post by: drobertson on February 09, 2013, 09:55:56 AM
I have had the misfortune of missing the intended target a few times, one had to unscrew, the other swelled at the insert and the shaft bounced back. vise grips an pry bar got them back,  I guess hitting this with the blade is better than the palm of your hand, 
Title: Re: My first foreign object!
Post by: redbeard on February 09, 2013, 11:06:43 AM
Wonder if anyone has ever hit a old stone arrow head.  I bet that made a bit of a racket when you hit that arrow head ND rancher.
Title: Re: My first foreign object!
Post by: ND rancher on February 09, 2013, 08:58:32 PM
Boy if I hit one of those! :o It could happen . We have trees that have been here for hundreds of years!

 (https://forestryforum.com/gallery/albums/userpics/30744/IMG_2304.JPG)  This is a small one! If you check the rings in the oaks you realize just how long it takes to grow trees here!
Title: Re: My first foreign object!
Post by: POSTON WIDEHEAD on February 09, 2013, 08:59:59 PM
Where did you get that "TEENY TINY" chainsaw?  :D
Title: Re: My first foreign object!
Post by: ND rancher on February 09, 2013, 09:06:12 PM
Big enough for me!
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Post by: POSTON WIDEHEAD on February 09, 2013, 09:08:37 PM
That DanG tree is HUGE.
Title: Re: My first foreign object!
Post by: isawlogs on February 09, 2013, 09:20:17 PM
 Well the one in the background to the right of the tree stand sure ain't no twigg either  :D   I have yet to hit anything arrow like yet ... and I could do with out for a while too.
Title: Re: My first foreign object!
Post by: customsawyer on February 09, 2013, 09:25:34 PM
Is it just me or is that saw trembling a bit. :D
Title: Re: My first foreign object!
Post by: POSTON WIDEHEAD on February 09, 2013, 09:27:54 PM
Quote from: customsawyer on February 09, 2013, 09:25:34 PM
Is it just me or is that saw trembling a bit. :D

No...it not you......it's trembling.  :D
Title: Re: My first foreign object!
Post by: terrifictimbersllc on February 10, 2013, 08:39:50 AM
Wouldn't mind a little saw I could hang on my key chain where'd you get it?
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Post by: rooster 58 on February 10, 2013, 11:54:29 AM
   Hey ND, what kind of tree is that? Would that be a Cottonwood?
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Post by: isawlogs on February 10, 2013, 01:00:40 PM
 Thats the size of trees Danny and Jake love to play with, specialy Danny.  :)
Title: Re: My first foreign object!
Post by: ND rancher on February 10, 2013, 06:38:01 PM
Rooster, You are correct! smiley_clapping
Title: Re: My first foreign object!
Post by: hamish on February 10, 2013, 07:25:19 PM
Mine was a horsehoe, quite a shock finding in the near center of the tree.  Horseshoe 1 Millband 0.